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Change is everlasting. The most noteworthy ones are tiny changes. Such as where we buy our daily produce. Like old war-buddies, we often reminiscence over the days when we shopped at the round the corner shop. In fact, our nostalgia for these quaint traditions has brought them back on UK streets.

Super markets and their ilk materialised at a much later on the UK scene and they did not really pick up in popularity until the 1960’s when they started to offer a variety of merchandise that could not be availed in the local shops. The development of the super stores did not bring about complete shutdown of your local store; however it wrought about a harmful change with the locals placing more products on their shelves in order to compete with the big boys. What is bad about this? Let us take sweet selection. It has brought about a drop in the standard of selection as a number of delicious old fashioned sweets are no longer in store.  Because of this demand, the local sweet shops have sprung up all over the place.

It is imperative that they compete with the super markets as the latter is a necessity that started out as a small business before growing to their present size. Yet the only way for these sweet shops to stay open is at a much higher price. Ultimately, it comes down to the buyer and whether we are willing to shell out more for these expensive sweets.