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My Aunt's food mart in the 1930's. Small store,
no self-service. Not much floor space needed for
Dairy products, canned food and bottled beer.
Kids carried milk cans home every day.
Customers as well as food stores didn't own a fridge,
so using ice blocks for that purpose was common.
"Colonial goods" made the luxury department:
sugar, coffee and tea from overseas - not from
German colonies, those were gone after WWI.
(I was surprised to learn that Australia was among
the countries that took them over).
I doubt that my aunt sold much of those goods.
Poor people everywhere in the 30's.
During war she run the store a one-woman-business.
When food became scarce, government regulated the
distribution of food by handing out food stamps to
the people. Not enough to keep the hunger away.
Many jumped on trains to travel out of town to farmers.
Exchanging whatever they still owned for food.
A watch for a bag of potatoes.
