Food &/or General Stores

You will find information on all types of food and general stores under this heading in Yellow Pages®. General stores or retail stores are shops that stock items of general use. In the yester years, the general stores were generally found along the roadside serving local residents and coach riders. With the advent of the automobile revolution, these general stores evolved into gas stations and beverage joints. Typically, a general store would serve the purpose of a pharmacy, local post office, or a bus stop. Yellow Pages® contains a comprehensive list of food and general stores across Australia.

 In the late 1950s, supermarkets, shopping centres, malls started springing up and the very existence of a general store started diminishing. Many general stores had to close shop and turn towards other alternatives. More recently, general stores have learned from their shortcomings and devised unique strategies to live up to the challenge of the supermarkets and malls.

Most general stores started stocking fast running consumer goods, which is also called as FMCG. These goods are small and used very frequently. For example, a cigarette packet. Even if a consumer buys a carton of cigarettes, there is a greater possibility that that consumer will fall short of it in no time. Then, going to a supermarket, which is far off, does not seem to be a feasible solution. The consumer then turns towards the general store and buys a few packs of cigarettes. This is the case for almost all the daily-used items. The general stores also stock perishable goods such as meat, fish, and other items. Often the general store is managed by a small family or a group of families.

See also Supermarkets & Grocery Stores or Fruiterers & Greengrocers