Tastebuds in Adderbury has been voted the best village shop in Oxfordshire by the Oxfordshire Rural Community Council. The ORCC has identified that the village shop and the village post office are important to village life.  They provide services for everybody in a village, particularly those who rely on local facilities for their everyday supplies.  They are often also a focal point in a community, as an information centre and meeting place.  But their future is threatened by:competition from supermarkets, the greater mobility of the majority of people who live in villages, the trend to shop near our place of work,changing technology that reduces our use of the postal service and enables us to shop without leaving homeOver the past fifteen years there has been a sharp increase in the number of village shops and post offices closing, leaving some people in rural communities isolated and unable to gain easy access to shopping and postal facilities. Owner of Tastebuds Rob Babij is pictured with a Cumberland sausage outside the premises in Adderbury recently.