A fruit shop that has been open for 29 years closed on Saturday resulting in the loss of three full-time jobs.
Owner of Covent Garden Fruit Market, in Welshpool, Mid Wales, said the store was unable to compete with supermarkets’ late opening times and said people’s eating habits are changing.
Alan Price told County Times, a local newspaper, that the decision was “hard and emotional”.
“There was a time when people would buy swede, the sort of vegetables you’d accompany with, say, pork chops, those sort of dinners. But now, people tend to have food like pizza for their dinner,” he said.
He also said personal reasons were behind the shop’s closure including long and anti-social hours.
Price, 48, opened the shop in 1984, and later opened a further two branches in Oswestry and Shrewsbury.
The closure of the Welshpool shop has resulted in the loss of three full-time jobs of staff who have been there since the shop opened.
Price told County Times: “I must say a massive thank you to them for giving all those years of service. They’ve been here since the very start and it’s sad.”
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