Why no site shop ?

Come to Cornwall, Ray. I can find you campsites with shops where you can buy milk, ice creams, local beers, windbreaks, buckets and spades, stuff from a freezer,  and fresh baked bread every morning.  People call them commercial  sites but to me they are catering for what their family visitors on holidays  ask for - not just providing for self contained Club members. Some even serve breakfast to people who arrive early.

That could obviously occur at any site in any county ET, Cornwall's not that special.

JK

https://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/campsites/facilities/shops/

This is what the C&CC are planning to do, remembering that tent campers etc may not always carry the same things as van owners I'm sure it will be helpful to all users. There are also CAMC sites with tent pitches.

It will be interesting to see how this works for both clubs, no shop or a basic shop?

One thing about the CAMC is that it used to be predictable and members like to find that sites make similar provisions in general.

Jk, You sound a mite defensive that the sites where you work provide so little tor holidaymakers. 

I can't recall in all my club site travels any standardisation or predictability at all of what site shops used to sell, well apart from Walls ice creams. I can't recall two sites selling the same things. It was always a wait and see approach. It was always important in my book to be prepared for nothing on sale.

Most had the basics, milk, butter, sliced bread, long lasting and dried foods like sugar, coffee, tea bags, juice, sometimes eggs. Others had various tins, cornflakes, others had long lasting bacon, sausages, usually from a local farm shop while others had freezers with more variety.

But I think they were not meant to be a long term shopping solution for those that never went off site (actually I don't think they existed or I never saw anyone like that apart from maybe Seacroft?) but rather for the day of arrival or when one ran out of something or a treat. From recall the food stuffs would cost far more than a local supermarket (not a criticism in any way) so it would be expensive to use all the time anyway. 

As said if having a well stocked always there shop is important then make sure you choose a site, club or not, carefully.  

Well I really can't see where you got any of that that from JK's reply?

But providing little other than great well kept sites and facilities, good quality sites, good advice and practical help when needed (what did JK say about help with putting up awnings?), friendly welcomes, local advice... and someone on duty 24/7 for emergencies.

I wouldn't class that as providing so little for club site users and far outweighs being able to buy a carton of milk. But again each to their own, find a site that gives what one considers to be important and then everyone is happy?  

Your ice cream will be melted by the time you get back to site lol

Does your Motorhome not have a freezer as part of the fridge.

Newspapers ordered and dropped off by a local newsagent are not a huge work burden on the Wardens

local newsagents are far and few between, Supermarkets have taken care of that.

The definitive answer to the OPs question lies firmly with those at HQ in East Grinstead, not the staff on a specific site. Things have changed, why this is so is a sign of the times!

As davetommo eludes to that change is a result of our shopping behaviours!

I don’t blame you JK if I was a site warden sorry manager I wouldn’t run a shop.