Quarter of a million members

We’ve just signed up our 250,000th member at Old Leake Food Store near Boston!

Ray Cooke from the nearby village of Wrangle is a long-time shopper but a brand-new member and he’s bagged £250 in dividend for himself and £250 for his store’s Community Champion, the Bennington Community Heritage Trust.

“It’s good timing, right before Christmas,” Ray said. “I’d had the form before and I never filled it in, but they asked me if I had a dividend card every time I came in.

“I finally got round to it and signed up at just the right time!”

A hundred other lucky existing members have been chosen at random to receive £25 in dividend in celebration of the membership milestone and winners will be notified on their till receipts.

Member Engagement Manager Richard Whittaker said: “Members always get more for shopping with us so we thought we’d acknowledge what a special moment this is with an extra reward.

“We'd like to say a big thank you to all of our colleagues who have worked so hard to get new members on board.