The corner shop

Eighty-seven per cent of British people live less than a mile from their local corner shop. A corner shop is a small shop on, or near, a street corner. Most corner shops sell food and newspapers.

Many are run by Indian or Pakistani families. The teenage children help their parents in the evening or at weekends. Corner shops are open until late in the evening, as well as on Sundays, so the people who run them work very hard.

Michael Vaughan-Rees, Geraldine Sweeney, Picot Cassidy: In Britain. 21st Century Edition, Cornelsen Verlag, 2000, page 58