Seven Sharp reporter Julian Lee takes a walk down the aisles to look at the history of the grocery store in New Zealand and investigates a Nelson fruit and vegetable box service that’s growing strongly.
A self-service supermarket would have seemed an odd thing indeed 100 years ago. New Zealanders shopped at small general stores in towns and larger department stores in the cities. Everything was behind a counter.
You’d probably hand a list to a clerk behind that very counter who’d fetch the things you wanted, or you might simply point to things.
There was a certain logic here…
A shopper left her purse unattended in her shopping cart and returned to her cart, she noticed her purse was wide open, so she closed it. When the victim entered the check-out, she realized her wallet had been stolenPolice are warning shoppers, “Don’t leave wallets and purses unattended.”
On two recent occasions, North Bay police have responded to theft of wallets from local grocery stores, while the victims were shopping.
On the morning of March 7, a local woman was shopping at a grocery store on Cassells Street and left her purse unattended in her shopping cart for a…
The Avon City Market carries a selection of wine, in accordance with Colorado Proposition 125. While some of the displays, like this one, a wine wall bordering the produce section, were approved by the Avon Liquor Licensing Authority, some of the temporary display stands on questionable legal ground.Zoe Goldstein/Vail DailyA year after the introduction of wine to grocery and convenience stores in Colorado, the implementation is starting to run into several challenges.
At the March 12 meeting of the Avon Liquor Licensing Authority, the board members stalled an application to expand the permanent presence of wine in the Avon…