The Greengrocer, by James Pollard, circa 1819. Source: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Coll
The Greengrocer, by James Pollard, circa 1819. Source: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Although people in the early 1800s could not shop at supermarkets or department stores, they had plenty of other shopping opportunities, especially if they lived in cities. Markets, peddlers and hawkers, specialty stores, general stores and cheap shops all catered to early 19th-century shoppers. For a look at what it was like to go shopping 200 years ago, see “How did people shop in the early 1800s?” -- source link
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