A lot of it was padding . How many corner shops really laid on food for their customers to celebrate different things. You did not make a big enough profit to do that . I grew up , like Margaret Thatcher , above our shop from 1947 until I got married . We lived on the outskirts of town so catered for the rural people as well as town . I always remember one farm worker who would stop off every Saturday night on his way to the dancing and buy one white handkerchief. I guess he never washed the other ones.
We had a book for the close neighbours who needed to buy " on tick " now and again and were always paid back .
Scottish political mess. Is Devolution working?
‘Nudinits’ in a shop window - a charity fund-raiser, required to cover up!