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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now, after almost forty years in business, the much loved
owners of the Funny Bay Supermarket are retiring. Manuel and
Nitza Kosas have no doubt witnessed so much in their
time with customers, and well they've they've got a big family,
and I know their own kids as well, have worked
(00:20):
in the supermarket over the years and grown up inside
that store. Now joining me on the line is Manuel.
Good morning, Manuel, morning Katie.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
How are you, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Mate, I'm good. I don't know what it's going to
be like going to Fanny Bay without seeing you there.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's gonna be hard. I'm sad to be leaving, but
excited for the next chapter of my life after forty years.
I've got to sort of plan a new life. Yep,
you know, forty years wreaking up every morning, seven days
a week, coming to work. I've got a plant something else.
(01:01):
I've got to start getting used to my wife. I've
got a wife. Yeah, I'm wonderful about that. He's very excited.
It's going to be hard to a war miss Ony
Bay Civil Market, very very much lovely people who made
a lot of friends. It's got a big family, yeah
(01:25):
it is. I mean, young kids getting married, and bringing
their kid for me. It's just been beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Wasn't like you see people grow up manual like you. You.
You know, you're somebody who we all see as part
of our lives very regularly. And you know, yesterday we
were talking about this with Laurie Zio and I said,
you know, some saturdays I go in and you say
to me, Katie, have you eaten? I'll make you a sandwich,
and you made me a sandwich. You send me out
(01:56):
with extra food that I don't need. You know, one
year I was organizing the phone run and You're like,
have you got this? Have you got that? And you
know you treat everybody with that love and care, and
that's what has made the Funny Bay Supermarket such a
wonderful place.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, Trady, it's going to be hard because you know,
you go back forty years ago when I first started
in the supermarket business, being a Momi mechanic by trade.
My wife Ntche sent me to the markets gone by
salary and I said to my wife, what is salary?
I not knew what salary was, and she drew a
(02:32):
picture of celery and I went to the market and
I said to the owner, I said, what is this?
And the man said, are you stupid or are you brave?
I said, I already don't now. I just told my
my wife to come and buy salary.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Made.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Man he said, he said, you must be crazy, and
I said to him, I said, Jim, take me inside
and teach me, and he did.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sounds like it's been a step Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
My first experience in a super market.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It sounds like it's been a steep learning curve for
your manual.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That was very hard. From martam mechanic to running a
super market. It's a lot of difference.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, So what's it been like over the forty years?
Tell me about you know, I know there's been plenty
of wonderful moments. There's been some difficult moments as well,
and I've had you on the show on numerous occasions,
you know, for some of those difficult moments. But what's
it been like over the years.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, you can write, I can write a whole book
about it, really, but they'm token, you know, the good
time they drowned the bad times because there's simply the
good times we're so huge and there's still very huge
that the bad times we just we just write them off. Yeah, really,
you know, and thanks to you. You know, we've always
(03:57):
said you to talk to and having you on the
show is like having someone who get out frustration and
our and of her chest and you just listen to us.
And that's worth millions of dollars. Yeah, I'm very lucky
to have you now with the family. You know, my
wife did her. Yeah, she worked very hard in the supermarket.
(04:22):
She's a legend and she is she's a beautiful cream
rise and all the recipes of the sellers belong to her.
Then the kids come along. I've got a beautiful three
kids and ten grandkids and a great grandson of a
forty years. The kids, the kids grew up in a supermarket.
(04:48):
We were taught about her work and be honest and
to respect the community. Which did that do all my
very successful I'm very proud of you and uh and
my custin is not just beautiful, there's yeah. Maybe you
know what do you say? You know what I'm saying is, yeah,
I'm not calm because it's Ober. Yeah, this is not
(05:11):
a goodbye because I've look when we are living down
down with your heart. Yeah, you're saying that people see
you later and at the age of seventy six. I
believe I'm never too old to set another goal or
dream in my life.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh you're spot on, and you're and you know and
you're also it's good. It'll be so nice for you
and it's a to not for you to not have
to be operating at that one hundred percent, you know,
every single day. And I know that. You know. I've
gone in there on numerous occasions. And the staff. You
(05:46):
guys treat your staff like their family as well. So
many staff members there have been there well from what
I can see, for such a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, many years. You know. I love them my stuff
like a big family. They're lovely people that love, they
love the customers. And the good thing is they all
stand behind the new owner. If you're working with the
new with Rug and Jay there taken out of them
(06:18):
and hopefully they keep the people on and hopefully they
be your good job, which I believe they will. Yeah,
I believe they'll do all right.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, absolutely, and make you like you've done a phenomenal
job over the years, as I said, being such a
huge part of the community. But what I want to
know is what are you and Knits are going to
get up to in retirement. Any trips ahead, what do
you got planned?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, the thirst thing, I've got to do your pay,
and the thing is I've got to get staying all
they have met. That's not going to be easy. She
probably killed me. I kill there. I think you've probably
killed me, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
She might have some jobs for you to do around
the house, manual, but I.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Don't know how to do house. I would have done
this in my life. Be a problem.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
She can draw a picture for you like she did
with the salary, she'll be I.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Think you might have to give me a list of
my duties. I don't know. But on the twenty clips
of August, we are leaving. I'm taking my lovely wife
to Greece and to Germany for four weeks breaking yep,
which was I enjoy very much. Sit back and relax
(07:26):
and try to, you know, enjoy each other's company again. Yeah,
come back to Darwin and set your life.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh mate, Well, you know what, like you've as you've
spoken about, You've got beautiful children, you've got beautiful grandchildren,
You've got your beautiful wife. You know, it says a
lot about the type of man that you are. That
you've got such a wonderful family around you, and the
way that the community loves you as well. It says
a lot about you as a huge and the way
(08:00):
that you've traded other people, and of that you should
be so proud of that legacy, which I'm sure you are. Mate,
you deserve a sleeping as well. Surely, what time do
you get.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Up every day seven days a week. I get up
at six o'clock in the morning, yep, and by six
thirty seven I'm at work yep. And I thinks about
eight o'clock at night. I love doing it. I don't
get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I enjoy my job, yep.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I really enjoy the working. I'm a workaholic. I love
I love talking to people. Yeah, you know, we're a
few argument then there, which kept the blood boiling. It's rolling.
It good. But at the end of the day, you know,
the biggest thing in my life is I've got a
very good family. Yeah. And the other thing is they're
(08:52):
all successful, or my kids are very successful right now yep. Alexi,
my son has got his own business. He wants you
to go and help it. Yeah, I'm not working for
no one. I've retired. That's in my working days are
robot but you'll have to get used to it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I bet you I see you there in a couple
of months. I've got a message, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I love to express my gratitude to my staff, to
my family, you know, to the media, to you looking
after all these years and Mitchell beautiful voice, and you
know everyone that comes here. It's it's said, like I said,
someone to be leaving. But on the other hand, I've
(09:39):
got to start in your life. I've got to see
what's outside of the four wards.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I reckon, you're spot on. You have well and truly
earned your retirement. A quick message that's just come through
from Eileen Brufer X and Paul on Mitchell Street. She said, Katie, yeah,
she said, please wish Manual and Knitza and the family
all the best for the future. Lots of love and
(10:08):
and you know these others coming through as well, people
just expressing their gratitude, you know, for you just being
a lovely bloke when they go in there, and and
you know on behalf of the community. We think you all.
You do deserve your retirement, mate, you deserve some sleeping,
you deserve some time with your wife, and I love
(10:29):
going in there and seeing you, but I think that
you know that absolutely it's time for you to have
a break.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yes, good Manuel.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Thank you so much for all your time over the years.
Thank you for your generosity as well, and you know
for all that like you've treated my little family like
we're part of your family and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Beautiful. Yeah, okay, I love to say thanks to Laura last.
She did a great job. She's just beautiful and she
worked very hard. Yeah, and made my retiring much much
more easier and more colorful to be answer.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You good stuff. Well, a big thanks to Laurie for that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Absolutely, well, Manuel, mate, good luck, I'll see I'll still
see you around anyway. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'm good on your money.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Good to talk to you. I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Thank you yourself too, Yeah, doing all the work and
giving me the program of life.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, no worries at all. Good on your Manuel, I'll
talk to you soon.
Now, after almost forty years in business, the much loved
owners of the Funny Bay Supermarket are retiring. Manuel and
Nitza Kosas have no doubt witnessed so much in their
time with customers, and well they've they've got a big family,
and I know their own kids as well, have worked
(00:20):
in the supermarket over the years and grown up inside
that store. Now joining me on the line is Manuel.
Good morning, Manuel, morning Katie.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
How are you, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Mate, I'm good. I don't know what it's going to
be like going to Fanny Bay without seeing you there.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's gonna be hard. I'm sad to be leaving, but
excited for the next chapter of my life after forty years.
I've got to sort of plan a new life. Yep,
you know, forty years wreaking up every morning, seven days
a week, coming to work. I've got a plant something else.
(01:01):
I've got to start getting used to my wife. I've
got a wife. Yeah, I'm wonderful about that. He's very excited.
It's going to be hard to a war miss Ony
Bay Civil Market, very very much lovely people who made
a lot of friends. It's got a big family, yeah
(01:25):
it is. I mean, young kids getting married, and bringing
their kid for me. It's just been beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Wasn't like you see people grow up manual like you. You.
You know, you're somebody who we all see as part
of our lives very regularly. And you know, yesterday we
were talking about this with Laurie Zio and I said,
you know, some saturdays I go in and you say
to me, Katie, have you eaten? I'll make you a sandwich,
and you made me a sandwich. You send me out
(01:56):
with extra food that I don't need. You know, one
year I was organizing the phone run and You're like,
have you got this? Have you got that? And you
know you treat everybody with that love and care, and
that's what has made the Funny Bay Supermarket such a
wonderful place.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, Trady, it's going to be hard because you know,
you go back forty years ago when I first started
in the supermarket business, being a Momi mechanic by trade.
My wife Ntche sent me to the markets gone by
salary and I said to my wife, what is salary?
I not knew what salary was, and she drew a
(02:32):
picture of celery and I went to the market and
I said to the owner, I said, what is this?
And the man said, are you stupid or are you brave?
I said, I already don't now. I just told my
my wife to come and buy salary.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Made.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Man he said, he said, you must be crazy, and
I said to him, I said, Jim, take me inside
and teach me, and he did.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sounds like it's been a step Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
My first experience in a super market.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
It sounds like it's been a steep learning curve for
your manual.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That was very hard. From martam mechanic to running a
super market. It's a lot of difference.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, So what's it been like over the forty years?
Tell me about you know, I know there's been plenty
of wonderful moments. There's been some difficult moments as well,
and I've had you on the show on numerous occasions,
you know, for some of those difficult moments. But what's
it been like over the years.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, you can write, I can write a whole book
about it, really, but they'm token, you know, the good
time they drowned the bad times because there's simply the
good times we're so huge and there's still very huge
that the bad times we just we just write them off. Yeah, really,
you know, and thanks to you. You know, we've always
(03:57):
said you to talk to and having you on the
show is like having someone who get out frustration and
our and of her chest and you just listen to us.
And that's worth millions of dollars. Yeah, I'm very lucky
to have you now with the family. You know, my
wife did her. Yeah, she worked very hard in the supermarket.
(04:22):
She's a legend and she is she's a beautiful cream
rise and all the recipes of the sellers belong to her.
Then the kids come along. I've got a beautiful three
kids and ten grandkids and a great grandson of a
forty years. The kids, the kids grew up in a supermarket.
(04:48):
We were taught about her work and be honest and
to respect the community. Which did that do all my
very successful I'm very proud of you and uh and
my custin is not just beautiful, there's yeah. Maybe you
know what do you say? You know what I'm saying is, yeah,
I'm not calm because it's Ober. Yeah, this is not
(05:11):
a goodbye because I've look when we are living down
down with your heart. Yeah, you're saying that people see
you later and at the age of seventy six. I
believe I'm never too old to set another goal or
dream in my life.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh you're spot on, and you're and you know and
you're also it's good. It'll be so nice for you
and it's a to not for you to not have
to be operating at that one hundred percent, you know,
every single day. And I know that. You know. I've
gone in there on numerous occasions. And the staff. You
(05:46):
guys treat your staff like their family as well. So
many staff members there have been there well from what
I can see, for such a long period of time.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, many years. You know. I love them my stuff
like a big family. They're lovely people that love, they
love the customers. And the good thing is they all
stand behind the new owner. If you're working with the
new with Rug and Jay there taken out of them
(06:18):
and hopefully they keep the people on and hopefully they
be your good job, which I believe they will. Yeah,
I believe they'll do all right.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, absolutely, and make you like you've done a phenomenal
job over the years, as I said, being such a
huge part of the community. But what I want to
know is what are you and Knits are going to
get up to in retirement. Any trips ahead, what do
you got planned?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, the thirst thing, I've got to do your pay,
and the thing is I've got to get staying all
they have met. That's not going to be easy. She
probably killed me. I kill there. I think you've probably
killed me, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
She might have some jobs for you to do around
the house, manual, but I.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Don't know how to do house. I would have done
this in my life. Be a problem.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
She can draw a picture for you like she did
with the salary, she'll be I.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Think you might have to give me a list of
my duties. I don't know. But on the twenty clips
of August, we are leaving. I'm taking my lovely wife
to Greece and to Germany for four weeks breaking yep,
which was I enjoy very much. Sit back and relax
(07:26):
and try to, you know, enjoy each other's company again. Yeah,
come back to Darwin and set your life.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh mate, Well, you know what, like you've as you've
spoken about, You've got beautiful children, you've got beautiful grandchildren,
You've got your beautiful wife. You know, it says a
lot about the type of man that you are. That
you've got such a wonderful family around you, and the
way that the community loves you as well. It says
a lot about you as a huge and the way
(08:00):
that you've traded other people, and of that you should
be so proud of that legacy, which I'm sure you are. Mate,
you deserve a sleeping as well. Surely, what time do
you get.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Up every day seven days a week. I get up
at six o'clock in the morning, yep, and by six
thirty seven I'm at work yep. And I thinks about
eight o'clock at night. I love doing it. I don't
get me wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I enjoy my job, yep.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I really enjoy the working. I'm a workaholic. I love
I love talking to people. Yeah, you know, we're a
few argument then there, which kept the blood boiling. It's rolling.
It good. But at the end of the day, you know,
the biggest thing in my life is I've got a
very good family. Yeah. And the other thing is they're
(08:52):
all successful, or my kids are very successful right now yep. Alexi,
my son has got his own business. He wants you
to go and help it. Yeah, I'm not working for
no one. I've retired. That's in my working days are
robot but you'll have to get used to it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I bet you I see you there in a couple
of months. I've got a message, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I love to express my gratitude to my staff, to
my family, you know, to the media, to you looking
after all these years and Mitchell beautiful voice, and you
know everyone that comes here. It's it's said, like I said,
someone to be leaving. But on the other hand, I've
(09:39):
got to start in your life. I've got to see
what's outside of the four wards.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I reckon, you're spot on. You have well and truly
earned your retirement. A quick message that's just come through
from Eileen Brufer X and Paul on Mitchell Street. She said, Katie, yeah,
she said, please wish Manual and Knitza and the family
all the best for the future. Lots of love and
(10:08):
and you know these others coming through as well, people
just expressing their gratitude, you know, for you just being
a lovely bloke when they go in there, and and
you know on behalf of the community. We think you all.
You do deserve your retirement, mate, you deserve some sleeping,
you deserve some time with your wife, and I love
(10:29):
going in there and seeing you, but I think that
you know that absolutely it's time for you to have
a break.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yes, good Manuel.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Thank you so much for all your time over the years.
Thank you for your generosity as well, and you know
for all that like you've treated my little family like
we're part of your family and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Beautiful. Yeah, okay, I love to say thanks to Laura last.
She did a great job. She's just beautiful and she
worked very hard. Yeah, and made my retiring much much
more easier and more colorful to be answer.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You good stuff. Well, a big thanks to Laurie for that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Absolutely, well, Manuel, mate, good luck, I'll see I'll still
see you around anyway. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'm good on your money.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Good to talk to you. I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Thank you yourself too, Yeah, doing all the work and
giving me the program of life.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, no worries at all. Good on your Manuel, I'll
talk to you soon.
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