Shopping and eating patterns are changing, and those changes have threatening implications for the food companies whose shelf-stable products have long filled the center store.
"They were grabbing women," said Rita Briggs, a store owner whose shelves were picked bare.
Like Hector, whose shelves are full of books by Freud and Jung, Pegg believes that what happens to us in childhood defines us as adults.
Meanwhile local supermarkets like Coop, whose shelves are stuffed with products made outside Switzerland, are practically empty because shopping is cheaper elsewhere.
A group of passerby storms on them with insults and abuse... Writer visits a store whose shelves are still well supplied..
There's a bookcase in my shop titled 'Proprietor's Picks' on whose shelves I put the books I most like to impose upon my customers.
But the announcement sent a wave of panic through the city and caused a run on grocery stores, whose shelves were empty of items like bottled water, batteries and instant noodles.
Mrs. Richards, a self-described "anglophile" whose shelves are filled with 41 books on the royal family and videos of Diana's wedding and funeral, "hasn't missed a royal event".
