On 2018-12-03 2:59 PM, Pamela wrote:
Yes. I don't see them these days, but I guess i am not looking.
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>> I guess supermarkets are pushing out more and more specialist shops.
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> The biggest UK patisserie chain went bankrupt a few months ago.
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> https://www.theguardian.com/business...ie-valerie-to-
> cease-trading-without-immediate-injection-of-capital

Maybe I am getting good at sniffing our bakeries, but I think there have
been more opening up since the grocery stores started having in store
bakery departments. Personally, I don't like the bread they make in
most of them, and their pastries tend to be inferior to and more
expensive that real bakeries. I could be that the in store bakeries are
a notch above the usual commercial crap, and once people get a taste for
the the goods and accept the price, they go to the other places because
the products are better and cheaper.