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A family day today. 
Young L was playing football (soccer) this morning, so Mr H came to spend the morning with Granny S and me. After the game, Young L and daughter C arrived, followed not long afterwards by daughter J. Much talk on philosophical and political topics; the boys listening while being busy on laptops playing Roblox (I believe).
After the boys and their mother left, the three of us remaining went shopping for some provisions for a soup S is making, and other staples of life. On the way back to the apartment, we passed the old Surrey Dairy.
This is one of the once ubiquitous "corner dairies". They were found on a street corner as an extension of a house on that corner site, and they provided a source of milk, bread, basic grocery items and fruit and vegetables. The growth of large supermarkets, able to reduce costs with specials, underpaying suppliers (using threats of not buying any of the supplier's products), and even selling at a loss to get people in the door and buying more than the cheap stuff, has seen the gradual demise of the corner dairy.
Being local was once a major point. Within three kilometre of where we stay there are four supermarkets, plus one food market. Surrey Dairy has three of those five stores less than a kilometre distant in different directions. Not even the claim of "Open all hours" would help a family-run small business compete with large firms, whose opening hours are 0600 to 2200.
At least one other ex-corner dairy has become a cafe. Is that in this building's future? 

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