Further, the grocers have shown what can be done by independent traders to compete on more equal terms with the multiples.
Shoppers go to butchers rather differently from the way they go to grocers, particularly in the big town.
Perhaps a greengrocer is in competition with three or four more grocers in the high street.
The post office shut and reopened as part of a grocer's shop.
Technological development has brought microwave ovens into many homes, and most grocers offer ready-cooked food, allowing inexperienced cooks to serve themselves meals.
The municipal employee sold his illicitly gained butter to a grocer for 550 francs per kilogram.
Of those rising in status four - grocer's, miller's, maltster's and pattenmaker's daughters - all married gentlemen, and a tanner's daughter married an esquire.
This empathy, indeed sympathy, creates a rather distorted view of the grocers' overall economic performance.
