Advertisement in the old city centre of WismarA ship symbolising foreign trade on the outside of a colonial goods shop in Gotha (founded 1893)A colonial goods shop in Passau, 2005. (The logo indicates that the shop is affiliated with Edeka.)
Such stores existed across Europe. In German, they were called Kolonialwaren 'colonial goods', in French, comptoir des colonies 'colonial store', in Italian, coloniali 'colonials',[3] and in Spanish and Portuguese, ultramarinos 'overseas (goods)'. The luxury grocer Hédiard started as a colonial goods store, originally named Comptoir d'épices et des colonies. In Britain, Home and Colonial Stores became a major retail chain.
Decline and legacy
Germanic and Nordic countries
By the end of the twentieth century, the term had largely fallen out of use, while the items in which colonial goods retailers had specialized had long since been included in the wider range of goods offered by general purpose supermarkets. Where colonial goods shops survived, they were regarded as old-fashioned, and tended to be known in Germany and Switzerland as Aunt Emma Shops, that is, "mom and pop" stores. In Austria the etymologically convoluted term Greißler is used. In Germany the earlier term is still used in Bremen by the William Holtorf Colonial Goods Shop, founded in 1874, which claims to be Germany's last colonial goods shop.[4]
Germany's largest (in 2014) supermarket group, Edeka, preserved the word in its full name, Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler im Halleschen Torbezirk zu Berlin. In Denmark and Norway, the term kolonial is still commonly used by supermarkets.[5][6]
United Kingdom
In the 1920s, "empire shops" were proposed by the Empire Marketing Board as a promotional vehicle for foods from the British Empire. In the end, none of these shops opened. A public art exhibit in London in 2016 used the empire shops as a way of thinking about postcolonialism and globalization.[7][8]
↑ Mauro Giancaspro, "I Coloniali", Wall Street International MagazineJanuary 16, 2017
↑ Jürgen Hinrichs (1 June 2013). "Kolonialwarenladen gerettet" (in German). Weser-Kurier, Bremen. Retrieved 1 January 2015. Bremen. Er gilt als einziger Kolonialwarenladen, den es in Deutschland noch gibt. "Wilh. Holtorf. Lebensmittel seit 1874" steht am Eingang des Geschäfts am Ostertorsteinweg. Als der Laden samt Haus zum Verkauf stand und sich lange Zeit niemand fand, musste befürchtet werden, dass es mit Holtorf vorbei ist. Jetzt gibt es aber einen Käufer, der das Geschäft weiter betreiben will. Eine Tradition ist gerettet.
↑ Daniel Fernández Pascual, Alon Schwabe, The Empire Remains Shop: Cooking Sections, Columbia University Press 2018, ISBN9781941332375
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