Manchester, Market Street 1889
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21914
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We are looking from the Cross Street / Corporation Street corner. The art of bartering was just dying out. Fifty years before, you would spend a long time on every purchase discussing the price and making offers. David Lewis had advertised that 'our prices are the lowest possible and NO deviation from the marked price will be made'; the public took to the system, much to the amazement of the other shops. Note the third shop on the left, Brooke Bond & Co: this was a Manchester firm of tea and coffee importers founded by Samuel Brooke.
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