Miles and Dacombe

Yesterday was interesting. It was interesting for a few reasons.
Firstly, it was my first trip out of the area for many months.
Secondly, some of the events that occurred whilst out on my little jaunt were...different.
The train journey to Mansfield, which is, as a rule, fairly non-descript, was made peculiarly stimulating by the appearance of a duo by the name Miles and Dacombe http://undiscoverednetworks.blogspot.com/ who were very interesting. How to describe them-go and look at the information contained at the link.
Got to Mansfield to find that the Co-op store on Queen Street is now a Beales store on Queen Street.
I don't know what to make of the situation.
In a state of bemusement I wandered back up to the railway station and caught the next train to Nottingham and wandered around in a discontented manner for a couple of hours.
No Co-op on Queen Street?
What is the world coming to?
There has always been a Co-op on Queen Street in my lifetime-Beales isn't the same-even though the same people staff the store...it just doesn't seem the same-maybe I'm getting old.