Corner shop, back streets, Ronnie Barker, convenience store, greengrocer, open all hours, old school, traditional, essentials, fruit, potatoes, gossip
As much a meeting place for a good gossip as a place to buy your pint of milk, the English corner shop is a greatly loved institution. Cramming often just one of every conceivable item onto their shelves they are a haven of the bizarre, the essential and the chronically out of date. Open long hours, and 365 days a year, the corner shop is there whenever you need it. But not for much longer! The corner shop has been in decline for decades, ever since the advent of the supermarket, but the high street giants are encroaching not just on their trade but also their location. Now, rather than finding an independent grocery store on every corner, you are just as likely to find a small branch of a large chain. More than 2,000 corner shops have closed in the last year, bringing an end to friendly, family run businesses all over the country. Support your local corner shop now; if you don’t, “Coronation Street” will soon be the only place you’ll see them!
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