ORIGIN OF “GROCER”
SUPPLIES WEIGHED EN GROS
The origin of the name grocer was recalled by Mr J. Collinson, Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers, at the opening of the new premises of the Institute of Certificated Grocers, in London recently. The Company of Grocers was formed, he said, to see that the public got good food and got what they wanted. They were called “grocers” because of their privilege of weighing “en gros all supplies coming into the city. “I believe,” lie added, “we still have the right of entering some grocers’ shops to see that the sugar is not mixed with sand.”
The new premises were opened by Viscount Leverhulme, whose father was the first president of the institute on its formation twenty-one years ago.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 2
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