Happily, the EU has lifted its ban on the super-sweet alphonso, which has just come into season, so if you can find it (and you'll need a good greengrocer, market or Indian specialist grocers), gorge yourself.
And the trend towards natural and organic foods witnessed by grocers like Tesco and Sainsbury is also being repeated in the dog food business.
Seek them out in markets and grocers (where they won't have been refrigerated for days on end) and buy in big quantities.
GROCERS often do not travel well.
Modern grocers have only about half of Russia's food-retailing sales; open-air markets and neighbourhood produkty shops make up the rest.
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Although lobbyists for small shops argue that their number is falling precipitously, the commission found a 70% increase in the number of convenience stores between 2000 and 2006, and more than half of the new ones were independents.When a new supermarket enters an area, the watchdog found, although the number of small grocers fell, the number of bakers increased.
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Grocers with a clearly defined position in the market will continue to prosper, but for those without one there is more pain to come.
Just as Ryanair and easyJet are cautiously adding some of the features of the full-service airlines (such as flexible tickets for business travellers), so as to continue demolishing them, the hard-discount grocers are compromising a little on their principles, all the better to keep grabbing customers from Tesco and its peers.
Rival online grocers, such as the late Webvan in California, which went for an elaborate and expensive central-warehouse system, found they could not make it pay.As Verdict says, it should be no surprise that many of the most successful online retailers already have a strong home-delivery operation.
