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The International Stores was a popular grocery shop in Westerham between the Wars and beyond into the early 1970s when the group was absorbed by British American Tobacco and many outlets closed. It was sited in the left-hand side of what is currently ‘Ruach Kitchens’ in Market Square.
June Heath remembers local shopping “…apart from Woods and the Co-op, there was the International Stores which was where the new kitchen design shop is now, but in the left-hand half. They were different from the Co-op as they sold things like broken biscuits by weight, which when people were hard up, was very useful – it was an easier store for a bargain somehow. Having said that, Mother mainly shopped at the Co-op though, because of the ‘divi’ which meant you were saving some money. We also had MacFisheries in the little shop a couple of doors down from the Chemist, opposite the Green…”
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