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Family business
• THE interest with which I started to read The Market Place (Methods meat with approval, January 31) column quickly turned to disbelief and, to be honest, a certain amount of outrage.
I simply cannot credit the fact that Don Ryan “investigated” our growing taste for natural food shops and left out the oldest organic grocer on Kentish Town High Street (approximately a block from the shop Mr Ryan spent most of his piece on), Paradise Foods.
Not only is it a family-run business (you know, of the sort that we’re all bemoaning the loss of), but it has been there for 10 years (long before “natural foods” went mainstream), tirelessly serving the community and providing, among scores of other things, organic fruit and veg, as well as an astounding assortment of organic, vegan and vegetarian products – all packed into an average shop front.
Perhaps it isn’t gleaming enough for your correspondent.
It is, after all, small and unprepossessing — the sort of place where you stop to chat; the sort of place where people ask after you and you ask after them; the sort of place where if they don’t have something you want they will bend over backwards to get it for you.
Not gleaming, just a place where it’s a pleasure to shop.
D Sheldon
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