The Co-operative bank

A friend was telling me about this bank, honestly i dont recall hearing about it before. She told me that unlike other banks, it doesnt invest your money on various things that are harmful to the planet or offer its funds to finance the war, so it seems they have a lot of ethical values that I also share, so why not?

I was wondering if any of you here actually have an account with this bank and what are your experiences

peace

 

hehehe!!!!!
i work for co operative post office and i know nothing about it!
but i could probably find out about the banking side of things for you!

 

/\ but are they the same thing? same co-operative i mean? well it would be cool if you find out for me thank you

 

The co-op are pretty ethical when it comes to all of their interests.

They're also the best Supermarket for fairtrade food and labelling...(vegan/veggie etc) imo

Yes, their bank follows suit

Most banks and supermarkets are pretty unethical... so they do stand out from the crowd... though I'm sure they're not perfect

 

yeah the co-op organisation are huge, they do banks as well as funeral directors as well, from what i've heard, (i also work for co-op, lol)

 

they must treat their workers pretty good too, considering how positive about the company you guys are...

*maximum brownie points*

 

ummm, well i can't say that for the co-op i've just come from (transfered), LOL it wasn't that bad but it was pretty crappy, silly arlia up there still works at that store and works for the post office there too, she must love it that much haha

 

Good to hear, seeing as teh co-op monopolised prices on consumables in this country for nearly a century, bastards.......

 

They tend to pass the benefits back to their membrs though, with them being a cooperative I'd have thought
Have you any facts and figures? ta

Found this off the site:

sounds good to me

But I'm no expert

 

me niether, highstreet economics are boring as hell.....if yer are interested in the history of the co-op tho'.......look into the history of the foundations of ASDA (or rather, our very own WalMart ) makes for interesting reading......the co-op really were the biggest robbing bastards, years before WalMart existed....in fact, they set the standard

 

i want to reasearch further before i make any decision to switch banks. I dont know, it does sounds too good to be true, or perhaps i'm a bit cynical about finding goodness in the world of money and economics.

 

hmm excuse me if i don't believe your overview

Walmart is a completely different kettle of fish mate, satans little helpers no less

I don't really give a flying f about them competing with each other ... what I would look at before becoming a customer of a business would be their ethics socially, towards staff and animal testing / suppliers / customers etc

if they keep prices low, therefore monopolising a market... whilst still delivering on an ethical level..well that's a good one by me...could be a lot worse

 

*shrugs* ain't my overview, i advised yer to put some research into the history of a company before you decide if [ethically] they are justifiable......wot was the point of even replying if you presume i'm lying?

 

*sigh*

I'm just asking you to show evidence for your wild claims... as per the norm when trying to discuss an issue intelligently

I didn't call you a liar Oz...

gawd i remember now why this place sucks...

If you accuse a company of setting the standard for bad practice...I'd at least expect you to have an idea as to why.

I'm all ears... forever open to learning something new

Peace

 

It sucks because of me

 

noooooooo!

It sucks cos of misunderstandings... trolls and spammers

meh.. wish this place would go back in time

 

Oh, I know exactly why.....how the co-op fixed prices in this country which kept the farming community impoverished for much of the first half of the 20th century, how ASDA was formed from a collaboration in the farming community to remove the co-op from it's position of dominancy in the high street, and how the co-op used every dirty trick in the book for decades to try and stop them Resulting in the co-op being responsible for much of the way we trade consumables in this country........and imo, the country, and us as consumers, would have been infinitely better off if the company had never been founded....luckily with the advent of the monopolies commision (much of who's foundation we can actually thank the co-op for, as it was oppostion to the co-op that was a driving factor in the monopolies commision turning it's eye to the high street) they were stripped of much of their economic power and [indavertantly] free trade in all it's forms is now an actuallity in this country.......

Undeniably, the co-op has changed it's policy drastically since the 90's...but ethical? i don't think so

But....yer never will believe me will ya? would ya like a link?

 

Now this I find interesting

yeh ok I'll have a link... not that I don't believe you

 

Tough, do yer own homework (I had to study this shit in college years ago, boring then, and it ain't much more interesting now ).

Seriously tho', if yer are interested in researching a company that far back, yer gonna be much better off in yer local library or summit....a quick search for co-op/asda history on google brought not much more than a few thousand gushing semi-advert sites ........ but yer might find summit interesting if yer have the patience to trawl through 'em

 

you remind me of dok...are you related?