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Kōrero: Food shops

Shop window display

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Shop window display

This display in a Self Help store was probably in Willis St, Wellington, around 1926. Self Help was a chain of grocery stores that began in Wellington and spread around the country. They were not self-service stores, but offered cheaper prices and no credit. Window displays were very important in the grocery trade for luring customers into the shop.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Gordon H. Burt Collection (PA-Group-00743)

Reference: 1/1-015562-F

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Carl Walrond, Food shops – Grocers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25475/shop-window-display (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010, updated 1 September 2016.