Grocer
Grocer
A grocer is, at the origin, a small shop of food products, held by an independent tradesman. Its name comes from the Moyen-âge where the specialization of the trade was larger than now. The grocer sold mainly spice S. Actuellement, a grocer, with the direction strict of the term, is a trade which sells the products of food (in general other than the products of butchery) as well as the principal products of household. Sometimes the grocer is specialized in the product sales of luxury.
Of principal trade, the grocers of district were gradually transformed into auxiliary trade. In the same way, the sociological composition also changed. In France, many grocers of district were taken again by tradesmen of Maghrebian origin. Service and availability, amplitude of the schedules, make it possible small to the “Arab” grocer of district to resist the pressure of large distribution. The grocer is also often replaced by small Supermarché S which is called various names (mini-market), and whose mode of presentation of the food products is in the form of Gondole as in the Hypermarché S. These establishments generally form part of chains (In France: Small Casino, CocciMarket, Slovakia or Czech Republic: Potravini).
Grocer
Étymologiquement, the grocer is a person or an object who has a relationship with spices. The encyclopedic dictionary of the grocer and industries appendices mentions that historically the grocer was one to drageoir to offer spices or the officer with the course of Burgundy in charge of the presentation spices and drugs.
A grocer is currently somebody who works in a grocer where it sells food. The grocer is a independent worker, archetypic image of the Retail business of proximity. Whereas the majority of the food products passed by this channel of distribution in the years 1950, the concomitant development of the car and the Large distribution gradually reduced the share which the grocers traditional held in the food trade.
Today few grocers are independent tradesmen; the majority are managers or belong to a buying association.
To also note, the word " épicier" indicate, in the studied slang, the students of business schools, and by extension the pupils of prépa who intend themselves there.
The newspaper the Grocer
The newspaper “the Grocer” was a weekly magazine created in 1893 per Albert Seigneurie.
According to its authors the goals of this newspaper were:
1° To proudly raise like a great family name that of our profession;
2°Adjurer all those which exert it never to redden and answer about it by the only contempt the inept mockeries of stupid and useless, incompetents to belong to it and who try to ridicule it;
3°Rappeler with our fellow-members (of which much seems to have forgotten it) that our corporation is at the same time largest and most powerful of the Nation, since it is most numerous, base plate greatest quantity of articles, causes the most considerable movement of businesses and causes production of the greatest amount of work;
4°Lor to show that it would be enough to a very wide moral bond to form a trend of opinion and to change this latent power into an effective, sufficient power victoriously to fight the injustices and the multiple abuses which overpower us…