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AnnCardiff | Report | 5 Feb 2015 11:21 |
just thinking back to when I was a child - everything at the grocers came in tins or bags and was measured out for sale |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 5 Feb 2015 11:32 |
We used to go to corner shop get sugar in blue bags,butter in greaseproof paper,broken biscuits in brown paper bags.Broken biscuits were a lot cheaper 1p a big bag. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 5 Feb 2015 11:45 |
bacon cut into rashers on the bacon slicing machine - proper bacon that didn't ooze white stuff when you fried it |
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KathleenBell | Report | 5 Feb 2015 11:48 |
Ours was always bought at the Co-op with our "divi" number, so that you got paid out every quarter and therefore had extra money to spend then. |
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Allan | Report | 5 Feb 2015 12:06 |
I remember asking our local grocer for an empty biscuit tin after seeing a Blue Peter programme about turning them into fish tanks. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 5 Feb 2015 12:15 |
I can remember my mum going to the Maypole store in Portsmouth, there wasn't one (I don't think) in the small market town where we lived. She would get cheese and bacon there. I can also remember going to a small Sainsbury's shop (not a large supermarket), and a Liptons. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 5 Feb 2015 12:21 |
and then the supermarkets appeared in the late 1950's - Fine Fare was the first I can recall in Cardiff |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 5 Feb 2015 13:06 |
I have to confess that my first experience of shopping for food was at uni. after I moved out of hall into a rented cottage. I quite liked going into the grocer and getting slices from a whole ham on a special support, bacon sliced from a big rotating disk, cheese cut with a wire all wrapped in white and brown paper change zinging across the ceiling ... |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 5 Feb 2015 13:27 |
Mum can still remember her Co-Op divi number |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 5 Feb 2015 13:29 |
This thread reminded me - my grand daughter wanted to make some tiny fruit & veg for my doll's house greengrocery stall. |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 5 Feb 2015 13:47 |
My local High Street does not have a butcher, greengrocer, wet fish shop or baker - do not count Greggs as a baker. Does have at least 6 coffee shops. |
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nameslessone | Report | 5 Feb 2015 13:54 |
I used to try and persuade Mum to walk all the way down to Sainsbury's because I loved the tiled walls and how they cut the butter from a block then used paddles to shape it. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 5 Feb 2015 14:23 |
We've not only not had a greengrocer for nigh on 15 years, we have no butchers, or fishmongers either. Like Glitter Baby, we have a lot of coffee shops. We also have quite a few mobile phone shops, and 1 supermarket. |
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'Emma' | Report | 5 Feb 2015 14:40 |
I remember my mum going into a shop |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 5 Feb 2015 16:04 |
Mum's divi number 4176 :-D |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 5 Feb 2015 17:29 |
My mum went into town on the bus once a week for certain items, but shopped locally every couple of days for most other things. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 5 Feb 2015 19:38 |
We're fortunate in our village as we have four butchers and a greengrocers - however we have a shedload of charity shops and coffee shops and a fair number of hairdressers We have four pubs and five churches and two fish and chip shops and three chemists. We have a large post office, a furniture shop, a garage which does repairs and MOTs, three banks, two dress shops, a lovely gift shop, two jewellers and a cycle shop - we also have a library which is under threat the moment - all in all we have just about everything we need and it still maintains a village atmosphere |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 5 Feb 2015 19:39 |
we also have two Indian restaurants, an Italian, a Thai, a Chinese and a British restaurant |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 5 Feb 2015 21:05 |
We have only the tiny Village shop which is top price for everything.. |
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Wend | Report | 5 Feb 2015 21:37 |
I remember my Gran (who brought me up from age 6) sending me to the butchers to buy a lamb shoulder for Sunday lunch (about 12 shillings she used to say. . . or shout, as I went out of the door) and 20 Kensitas from the newsagents. |
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