Corner Shops Research Articles

Persistent Barriers of the Gluten-Free Basic Food Basket: Availability, Cost, and Nutritional Composition Assessment.

Gluten-related disorders are treated with a gluten-free diet. The "basic food basket" (BFB) consists of a list of basic foods consumed by low-income groups in society, including those lowest-cost versions within each food category. To evaluate the cost, availability, and nutritional quality of the BFB and gluten-free BFB (GF-BFB), foods were photographed, registering their cost, availability, and nutritional characteristics, in high quality and mid-range supermarkets, wholesalers, health shops, and corner shops, matching each regular BFB product with a gluten-free equivalent. Of the 1177 potential products, the selection of lowest-cost foods yielded 55 and 47 products (BFB and GF-BFB, respectively). Breads/cereals and drinks showed the highest differences (279% and 146%, respectively) while meats and sausages showed the lowest ones (18.6%). The GF-BFB cost represents 30.1% of the minimum wage, which covers the cost of 5.2 and 3.3 of the BFB and GF-BFB per month, respectively. Availability ranged between 22.7 and 42.4%. Lower availability was associated with poorer nutritional quality in the GF-BFB, which provides 5% less energy, 26% more fat, and 25% less protein than the BFB. Only 47% of gluten-free products declared their "gluten-free" condition. The results strongly suggest that the GF-BFB must be redesigned to be both gluten-free and nutritionally adequate.

Experimental evaluation of a water spray system for semi-outdoor spaces: Analysis of the effect of the operational parameters

As a consequence of climate change, urban overheating has increased in all the cities of the world during the last decades. It is therefore paramount to counteract such effect by promoting the use of effective solutions to mitigate overheating at a micro-scale level. In this work, a modular experimental setup based on a water spray system was designed, realized and tested to evaluate its thermohygrometric performance in semi-outdoor spaces such as bus/train/taxi stops, street resting stations and corner shops. The setup allows to vary three operational parameters: (a) the height of the nozzles from the ground; (b) the presence of an upper shielding to reduce the impact of solar radiation; (c) the presence of a side shielding to reduce the impact of wind speed. The combination of the operational parameters allowed to evaluate the performance of five configurations for the water spray system. Several performance indexes were calculated to assess the impact of each operational parameter. It was found that the best configuration guarantees a −20% reduction of dry-bulb temperature, and the minimum specific water and electricity consumptions of the system are 0.020L/m2 and 0.150Wh/m2, respectively. Also, the presence of the side shielding is the parameter that mostly influences the performance of the system, followed by the height of the nozzles, while the presence of the upper shielding has a minor effect. These operational parameters, however, increase relative humidity inside the nebulization volume; it is therefore important to verify if undesired wet conditions are reached.

Komparasi Metode Apriori dan FP-Growth Data Mining Untuk Mengetahui Pola Penjualan

Sales data is generally still rarely used, as well as the Perfume Corner shop just piling up in the database, even though there are problems experienced by the store regarding sales data for the best-selling products and to increase the number of sales of subsequent perfume products, so that the store can survive and develop even better. The algorithm that can be used to manage sales data to overcome this problem is Apriori. The research method used in this research is the KDD (Knowledge Discovery in Database) process. This research produces a high frequency pattern for itemsets with a minimum support value of 20% resulting in products that become The Most Tree Items namely Jo Malone 82.49%, Zarra 28.25%, and Zwitsal 20.34%. While the association rules formed from the value of Min. Supp 20% and Min. Conf 80%, get a combination of 2 itemsets, namely Jo Malone and Zarra. Whereas for the combination of 3 itemsets, namely Jo Malone, Zarra and Baccarte with valid and strong status, it is proven by a lift value greater than 1, therefore the association rules are very appropriate to be used.

On Borders

On Borders Naira Kuzmich (bio) Departure Here’s what you need to know: I’m 28 years old, and, when someone asks me where I’m from, I stammer. I was born in Yerevan, Armenia, to a shoemaker and a woman with big hips, a woman boys from the neighborhood wrote poems for, went to the army and came back for. We moved to America three years after the fall of the Soviet Union, in the summer of 1993. I was five when I arrived in East Hollywood, an area that, in a few years’ time, would be officially designated “Little Armenia” by the Los Angeles City Council. I grew up in a one-bedroom apartment on the corner of Kingsley and De Longpre, and, until I was 20, I slept on a convertible sofa bed with my grandmother. My older sister, by 11 months, slept on the floor beside us, on a makeshift mattress made carefully by my mother, every night, for 16 years, from our couch cushions. My father worked for a little cash as a jeweler in a shady Armenian business, coming home with soot on his face and fingers and deep coughs that hid a deeper hunger that couldn’t be satisfied by my mother’s hands and the meals she put on the table for him. My father forbid my mother from working, taking on the same kinds of jobs Armenian women from the Old Country were taking when they moved to LA, as caretakers, as babysitters, women who cleaned up other people’s shit for a living. My mother was college-educated, the top of her class, a civil engineer in Armenia. Instead, he encouraged my mother to go to school, to learn English, and to learn it well. My father stopped working a few years ago, his health having deteriorated, so my mother became the main provider. She’s now a social worker for the County of Los Angeles. My sister does similar work, helping poor communities apply for food stamps and welfare. We own a house and have our own backyard, a little bistro set in the middle of it, where my mother and father drink their morning coffee on the weekends when the weather is nice. For a living, I write about them. I change their names, I change the colors of their hair, their jobs, their genders, the diseases that plague them, the physical, the emotional, the age they were when they had their first kiss, [End Page 36] but it’s them I write about: my mother, my father, sister and grandmother, my aunts and uncles, my many shipwrecked cousins, losing their way on the dangerous and winding streets of Los Angeles, finding themselves in prisons, in unhappy marriages, in motel bathrooms by the 101, shooting up. I write about the Armenian community of Los Angeles, a community I was a part of, almost, but not quite, not then. I write fiction. I write stories inspired by the city and the people in it, me included, the parts of me I could never articulate to my parents, and I describe the overwhelming desire I had, already at a young age, to leave them and the city. I never quite fit in with my family and friends, who were not as concerned with grades as I. Instead, they dyed their hair and put on fake nails; they had boyfriends or wanted boyfriends so desperately they’d date any old Armenian thug who gave them a second glance or a stolen Chanel perfume—guys who smoked and spat, squatted down in their black tracksuit pants, and whistled at them as they passed, boys who wore crosses around their necks as if to prove they were godly men. They weren’t. When I’d walk the school hallways, down the street to the corner shops, or through the mall, I hoped that, when people looked at me—Americans—they wouldn’t see an Armenian, they wouldn’t think I was one of them. I wasn’t. I didn’t want to be just another Armenian in Los Angeles, up to no good, going nowhere. I was always looking for a reason to...

DigiBasket: The Grocery Store Web App

Abstract: Online Grocery Store is an eCommerce based web application for our Web Programming project. We had developed a sample in which user can search and find necessary information about any grocery item, can proceed to checkout to buy products. User can create an account, update personal information, can check its past activities, orders and transaction. A grocery store (AE), grocery shop (BE) or simply grocery is a store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries. In the UK, shops that sell food are distinguished as grocers or grocery shops (though in everyday use, people usually use either the term "supermarket" or a "corner shop" or "convenience shop"). Larger types of stores that sell groceries, such as supermarkets and hypermarkets, usually stock significant amounts of non-food products, such as clothing and household items. Small grocery stores that sell mainly fruit and vegetables are known as greengrocers (Britain) or produce markets (U.S.), and small grocery stores that predominantly sell prepared food, such as candy and snacks, are known as convenience shops or delicatessens.

The Labor of the Good: Sustaining Berlin’s Temporal Infrastructure in Turkish-Run Corner Shops

Berlin’s spätis (businesses that are similar to corner shops and open late hours and on Sundays) provide their customers with temporal flexibility. Amidst globally-rising xenophobic sentiments, Turkish owners and workers of these shops utilize this temporal quality and organize their work to accommodate the temporal needs of their diverse customers. They synchronize with the life of their neighborhoods and engage in speedy transactions. This temporal arrangement provides a powerful lens to consider how minorities’ labor forms the temporal infrastructure of their cities and make minorities vital for their countries. Whereas this case might appear as an example of good things happening in the midst of today’s overwhelming negativity, the article encourages research into the labor behind such “good things.” Thus, the essay adds to the “anthropology of the good” by showing that things that appear to be “good” might necessitate certain forms of labor, in this case, that of minorities.

Morning

Morning Anathi Jongilanga (bio) He was on his way to The Man Moves when Morning spotted the car. Not so much spotting as seeing that he was being followed. Suspicion morphing into fact. A black Audi A3 Sedan following two cars behind him all the way from Fassie Extension, his neighbourhood. Easy to spot in the sparse Saturday morning traffic. He didn't think anything of it at first, but as he turned into Putuma Avenue, to cut through Masukatown, the neighbouring suburb, on his way into the CBD of Duiker Hill, the two cars behind him continued on Dana Street while the black one turned with him and followed at a relatively safe distance. On and on … while A Seat at the Table boomed from the dashboard until he forgot about the car. A little hungover from last night's boozing with his beau, he was thinking about how long he would have to stay with his friends before going back home and relaxing the fatigue away. He parked at the corner where Nkoli Street met Ditsie Road, already spotting the restaurant up there. He dashed inside the corner shop where he bought a sachet of two Panado tablets and a bottle of water and was soon out. Walking up along Nkoli Street towards The Man Moves he noticed the car again, parked opposite the bar and grill he was going to. He was certain that that was the car—no two ways about it. A wave of gratitude washed over him as he tortuously took off the tight leather jacket he wore and sighed with relief. It was starting to feel like he was being pinched by a thousand ants at the crooks of his arms as he held his water and pills. Then the wave dissipated suddenly, and in its place came one of shock, the man startled. As he raised his right hand to scratch at the back of his head, a strong hand clutched his wrist and he turned in fear: though this town was not notorious for such crimes as mugging and robbery, this was still South Africa, anything was possible at any time. Confused, shocked and amused at the same time, [End Page 218] Click for larger view View full resolution Nadia Huggins, Transformations No. 1 (2014). Digital photograph, 30 × 46.5 in. (Courtesy of Nadia Huggins, 2021.) he yanked his arm away such that the old woman grabbing at it almost lost her balance and fell on his person. "What the fuck are you doing?" "Please—" Who was this stranger come to hold him like this as if she'd known him all his life? People never did that here; people used their words here, they spoke with their mouths, not with their hands. He thought he should give her the time, whatever she wanted could not be outside the stretch of his powers to give; but in the next second— "Who are you?" "Please ca—" "Lady, please leave me alone. Damn! Who the fuck are you?" "Please calm—" She sighed. "Let me explain." Zany, Morning thought. Nutso. Loony. Cuckoo as cuckoo goes. And he didn't repent for these thoughts like he would've at any other time. He saw something of himself in her, something about her. That big, flat nose and the brownest eyes, if a nose and eyes ever signified that two people looked alike. The determination: standing there looking like she wasn't about to let this go before she could say what she wanted to say to him. Then he willed himself to stop and listen to her, calmed himself down for her. Up the street, somebody was waving a hand from The Man Moves and Morning was sure it was meant for him. [End Page 219] "I was wondering if we could talk?" the woman pleaded. Her eyes thinned, her hand hesitant whether it should reach out and touch him or remain where it was, hanging in the air like a dead appendage. His phone beeped. The hand waved again. The woman waited. We've been waiting for you here. What's going on? "Who are you?" Morning asked her again and started walking...

Consumer Buying Behaviour towards Organic Food – A Case of UAE

The objective of this study is to understand UAE consumer behavior towards organic food. Six determinants were chosen to investigate the factors that were identified as potential influencers. These determinants were identified from the current research published on organic food buying behavior patterns. The chosen independent determinants are identified as: health and lifestyle, environmental concern, safety and trust, convenience and price, subjective norms and attitude. Purchase intention was identified as a dependent variable to test. Six hypotheses were formed based on determinants to test their influences on purchase intention. A random sampling of 423 participants was used in collecting the data. Multiple regression analysis tests were used to understand the significant influence of these six variables. The result of the analysis indicated that all six variables have a positive contribution towards consumer purchase intention of organic food. The implications for stakeholders and policy makers point to a need to upgrade the accessibility of organic food to a wider population such that the supply chain for organic foods and organic products extends beyond the big supermarkets to the smaller grocery stores and corner shops.

Corner Shops and City Development in Uyo Metropolis, Nigeria

City development is achieve-able through the proper arrangement of the various land uses within a specific place where there is heterogeneity of characters with a place (City). Land uses such as; commercial, residential, industrial, public, semi-public, recreational and road when manipulated in a harmonious sense brings an expected result. This is to say that none of these land uses can single out itself to make-up a city rather the synergy of all these land uses. This study aimed at introducing small commercial activities at suitable intersections in the study area. To achieve this aim, a careful study was conducted on the traffic system in Uyo Core to identify the trend of movement of people as well as demand and supply of immediate needed goods and services to really select the intersection and needed service. This study focused on the design principle specifically that of ‘variety’ and economic principle of demand and supply. The study area was divided into seven (7) strata taking into considerations the street guide of Uyo. Oral interview, personal observation, and structured questionnaires form the basis of data collection and elicit information on the suitable intersection for siting of the corner shops in Uyo metropolis. The study concluded that in order to solve the problems of careless building of kiosks, selling on the traffic point and illegal shops along the roads, there is need for organized corner shops, this as well will increase the revenue base of the government, reduce economic waste and enhance the improvement of streetscape in Uyo metropolis.

Assessment of Rising Damp and Indoor Environmental Quality in Buildings after Torrential Rains in Mallorca, Spain

AbstractAs a result of climate change, water-related disasters have increased in the last decade. In the month of October 2018, in the town of Sant Llorenç (Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain), torrential rains occurred that caused the overflow of the stream that passes through the municipality, causing personal and material damages (including death). In this research, it is intended to develop a characterization of the damage produced in the middle term (seven months after the natural hazard), through the analysis of hygrothermal conditions, humidity in walls, and indoor air quality in seven houses and in one corner shop. The most used or habitable rooms are selected, analyzing a total of twenty-one rooms. The UNE 171330-2-2014 standard is considered for the determination of environmental risks for the occupants’ health. The results obtained show that the users are aware of the need of ventilating the spaces, but, although hygrothermal comfort conditions and indoor air quality are within acceptable ranges, the rising damp highest level is high, since it even exceeds 2 m high in three of the twenty-one rooms assessed. The importance of diagnosing the effects of damage and the vulnerability of buildings in the event of a natural disaster is shown.

“I Cannot Do Abstract Art”: An Interview with John Behan

“I Cannot Do Abstract Art”: An Interview with John Behan Adrian Frazier and John Behan (bio) from the Archives This article originally appeared in New Hibernia Review 19:4. john behan was born in 1938 on Sheriff Street in Dublin, where his family ran a corner shop. From early childhood, he showed a love of drawing and painting. At fifteen, he started a seven-year apprenticeship as a metalworker, and soon began to use his skills in making sculptures. His first was of a bull, and it is for bulls that he has become famous. It is fair to say that Behan is a maker not just of art but of the conditions for making art in Ireland. Behan was a force in the Independent Artists, a founder of the Project Arts Centre, and a board member of the Design Studio. His public advocacy for the social value of art played a part in the reconstruction of the Arts Council in 1973. His leading role in the establishment of the Dublin Art Foundry made it possible for him and for other Irish sculptors to produce work in quantity and in quality at reasonable prices. A great reader in a generation of great Irish writers, Behan has often been inspired by motifs in poetry or drama. After the publication of Thomas Kinsella’s translation of The Táin, he produced a series of figures and scenes from the Irish epic. His graphics and bronze figures of crows follow from Ted Hughes’s Crow. In the comic spirit of Ulysses and Don Quixote, he has illustrated dozens of characters and scenes from these masterpieces. Writers have often returned the favor: John Behan’s sculptures are held in the private collections of Brian Friel, Tom Kilroy, Tom Murphy, Seamus Heaney, Edna O’Brien, Gerry Dawe, and others. From the 1990s onward, Behan took on epic subjects, works of massive public remembrance. He produced the National Famine Memorial in Mayo, the Arrival (on the theme of Famine-driven emigration) for the United Nations in New York, the Liberty Tree in commemoration of 1798 in Carlow, and the Flight [End Page 103] of the Earls in Donegal. Key images in his work include birds, crows, fish, boats, Icarus, and Dedalus. But the iconic figure for him is the bull. He has done bulls of many sizes and breeds, in various castings and styles, bulls that are anxious or angry, contented or fighting. Sometimes his bull is the king of his herd, and sometimes he is being led to slaughter. Behan’s hundreds of bronze bulls amount to a meditation on the fate of the male, and particularly the Irish male, at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. The following interview took place on October 20, 2014, at Behan’s house on Canal Road, Galway. ________ AF: When you were first introduced to sculpture by Paddy McIlroy, was that to modeled pieces, or an open steelwork form? JB: It started off as an exercise in making functional things out of copper, like bowls. Then Paddy realized that my talent lay in making figures, and hammered steel pieces, semi-abstract. So I went on from making copper objects to making hammered steel and welded steel figures of animals. The first successful piece I made after a two-year course with Paddy in the North Strand Technical School was a welded steel bull. This happened in the late fifties. Between 1957 and 1960 I was with Paddy. That was the beginning of my career as an artist. After exhibiting that piece in August 1960 in the Living Art Exhibition, my career just went on, from public exhibitions, to private exhibitions, to commissions. AF: That first bull was prominently mentioned in the Irish Times review of the show in August 1960. JB: Yes, James White wrote it up; he said it was one of the best pieces in the exhibition. He was the leading art critic at that time. AF: Did it give you a sense of purpose when you read those words in the Irish Times? JB: It did, because it made me realize that I could make work that would communicate...

Shopkeeping

ABSTRACT This prose poem aims to capture the social and commercial mood in the Midlands region of the UK during the turbulent 1980s. It relays the experiences of South Asian corner shop owners and how they managed their spiritual and professional lives in a political context where race-rioting and hostility towards immigrants was commonplace. As this creative piece foregrounds the liberatory potential of postcolonial poetic-based autoethnography, it advances Sherry and Schouten’s researcher-poet stance which emphasises how conventional prose cannot fully represent our perception and understanding of, in this case, complex race relations and vexed confrontations between British imperialist ideologies and the postcolonial subjects resisting colonial supremacy and social exclusion. This contribution advances ‘postcolonial poetic-based autoethnography’ as an alternative form of ethnographic research which gives legitimacy to Othered life histories and personal narratives as well as directing attention to historically constituted subjectivities, cultural meanings, ambivalent interactions, and social and racial dynamics.

Socialism and the right to property: Marx and Chesterton

ABSTRACT In this article, Andrew Collier critiques the method, but not the aim, of Rerum Novarum, the Catholic argument against socialism, as interpreted by G.K. Chesterton. He holds that Rerum Novarum may have incorrectly interpreted Marx’s – and thus socialists’ – definition of private property by assuming that socialists want to end private ownership of (1) necessary consumables (e.g. food), (2) non-consumables required for a certain standard of life (e.g. bicycles), and (3) the means of one’s own production (the artisan’s tools or the corner shop). To the contrary, Marx wanted to increase workers’ access to property (1) to (3) by ending ownership of capitalist property. If Rerum Novarum wants workers to have the right to own capitalist property this is hypocritical because such property by definition includes exploitation of propertiless people, which the encyclical aims to avoid. Collier therefore argues that the aim of Rerum Novarum (Chesterton’s ideal) can only be achieved via Marxist methods, and that this does not entail the abolishment of all private property.

A diez cuadras de Rivadavia comenzaba la pampa. El cruce entre el campo y la ciudad en las aguafuertes porteñas de Roberto Arlt

El escritor argentino Roberto Arlt comenzó a escribir su columna “Aguafuertes porteñas” pocos días después de inaugurado el diario El Mundo, en mayo de 1928. Tal como el mismo título lo anticipa, en estas notas, el cronista representó los diferentes perfiles de la ciudad en vías de modernización. Así, pueden encontrarse dentro del corpus un sinfín de escenarios urbanos disímiles: estampas sobre el centro en las que fulguran carteles de neón, vistas portuarias y panoramas rurales. En relación con esto, la propuesta de este artículo consiste en estudiar las aguafuertes dedicadas a la descripción de los márgenes de la ciudad para analizar allí cómo y en relación con qué imágenes escriturarias y plásticas del período el escritor diagrama en sus textos ese espacio intermedio entre el campo y la ciudad. Se observará, entonces, el modo en que las representaciones de los bordes urbanos configuradas por Arlt coinciden tanto con el barrio del tango de las glosas de tangos de Enrique González Tuñón, como con los almacenes rosados y los cielos abiertos de los primeros poemas de Jorge Luis Borges y, también, con un gran conjunto de imágenes de prensa y de obras plásticas de artistas del período (Pío Collivadino, Lino E. Spilimbergo, Horacio Marcho, Horacio Cóppola, etc.).

Nutritional quality, cost and availability of gluten-free food in England

Purpose Coeliac disease (CD) is a life-long condition requiring strict adherence to a gluten-free (GF) diet. Due to wide claims of availability and lower costs of gluten-free food (GFF) and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England needing to save costs, access to prescriptions for patients with CD is being limited in England. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the availability and cost of GFF in an area where patients with CD have restricted access to prescriptions and to assess the nutritional composition of GFFs available in comparison with foods containing gluten (FCG). Design/methodology/approach Eight food categories that were representative of a range of commonly purchased GFFs were selected. Availability and cost of the cheapest and most expensive branded and non-branded GFFs and gluten containing equivalents were surveyed at physical stores (n=19) and online stores (n=8). The nutritional composition of some of the widely available GFFs identified (n=190) and comparable FCGs (n=218) were calculated using MyFitnessPal. Findings None of the budget stores or corner shops surveyed stocked any of the surveyed cereal-based GFFs. Online stores had more availability than physical stores; however, there was no significant difference in cost. GFFs cost, on average, 2.18 times more than FCG. When making nutritional comparisons with gluten-containing food, protein content was lower across 55 per cent of GFF categories. There was significantly less sugar in GF brown bread, crackers, and wholegrain pasta compared with those containing gluten (CG). Another main finding was GF ready-meals contained significantly less salt than ready-meals CG. Originality/value Limited resources and perceived wide availability of GF products resulted in reduced GF prescriptions to patients in England. The findings in this study revealed that there is no availability of cereal-based GFFs in budget stores, high cost and limited access to prescriptions can influence adherence to a GF diet and is most likely to affect patients from deprived groups. This study recommends that the prescription of GFF to patients with CD should be continued.

A positive approach to communications

GP practices need to develop unified practices to make the shift from a corner shop model to one that can compete for the attention of those attracted to online providers such as Babylon, argues Paul Bensley

Internationalization of an emerging country brand: from a corner shop in Istanbul, to Oxford Street, London

Internationalization of an emerging country brand: from a corner shop in Istanbul, to Oxford Street, London

Placing Newton Arvin in Queer History

Placing Newton Arvin in Queer History

John Kenneth Bleasdale

John Kenneth Bleasdale (“Ken”) was born into a Lancashire Catholic family in Blackburn, the second son of Joseph (“Joe”) and Elizabeth (“Betty”) Bleasdale. Joe initially worked “int’mill” and later, after...

Multilingual, multisensory and multimodal repertoires in corner shops, streets and markets: introduction

The research described in the papers in this special issue is situated in a diversity of contexts: a street market and small shops in Mumbai, a subway in Cape Town, a greengrocer in Copenhagen, Ban...