I don't know of any other way to do it. The scenario you describe would be so rare as to be not worth spending a lot of time on, IMO.

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Thanks Sue,

Your suggestion is what I had decided to, but it doesn't feel right.

Is there a more 'thread-safe' way of doing this? If two instances were to
add a store at the same time I wouldn't know which added which. I don't think
that will happen, but in theory it could.