a8817 Online No. 5
"We come across new variations of produce all the time. After 23 years doing this you would think you’ve seen it all."
This is the only fruit and vegetable shop on Enmore Road.
A Newtown grocer's shop showed dramatic marketing flair in the early 1900s by dangling a menacing knife from the premises alongside a sign: 'This is the knife with which we cut our prices'.
In 1914, Constantine Paris, a King Street grocer, was fined £1 for failing to display the Fruiterers' Award, which alerted shop assistants to their wage and working condition entitlements.
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