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I agree with you, it does seem a shame as we all have needed that extra bottle of milk, or bacon or whatever ans the site shops are a great convenience for us. However, we, as a nation have brought this upon ourselves, we have adopted the American blame culture and whilst the majority of us would have no priblem buying from a convenience shop, some would buy and heaven forbid if anything went wrong such as food poisoning etc etc they would sue the site owner. Having a licence makes sure that shops follow strict food keeping guidelines and are inspected by the local authority to make sure things are stored correctly etc. But, thats the land we live in now I'm afraid, no longer are we allowed to use our common sense and take responsibilty for ourselves, someone else is always to blame.

The CC, most of their site shops still sell bread, milk, eggs and Icecreams, although the club do say that what each site sells is entirely upto the wardens, and some sites may not sell anything at all, where others you can buy the everyday food basics, newspapers to order, sweets, cold drinks, and icecreams, and all kinds of caravanning assesories.

Indeed its the red tape brigade gone barmy again, whilst i understand the regs need to be in place for food hygiene reasons when selling 'loose' open foods and perishables, surely things like canned drinks, packets of sweets, or sealed and wrapped icecreams are a totally different matter.

It rather sounds like the same rules that have killed off the village fetes tea-party and Tramps Supper' kind of gatherings all in the name of red tape!

Julia ,

 can anyone throw any light on the fact that, who gets the profit from the club site shop sales. if the wardens get the profit, then fair enough, its them thats dooing the extra work.

 if the club syphons off the profit, then i dont blame the wardens for not stocking any  food items.

stu.