Wouldn't it be lovely to be able to buy your fruit and vegetables from the green grocer, your meat…read morefrom the butcher, your fish from the fishmonger, cheese from the cheese monger, bread from the bakery and so on? Of course it would, but that would be awfully expensive, right?
Well in the case of fruit and vegetables from the green grocer, that doesn't have to be true if you're going to roots and fruits. Really, it's slightly reductionist to refer Roots and Fruits as a green grocer. As well as beautiful fresh fruit and vegetables they sell teas, coffees, cereals, bread (mostly from Kember and Jones), eggs, meat, herbs and spices, milk, fruit, flowers and almost everything else you could need. Plus there's a small deli section offering soups, salads and other little delicious bits and pieces.
Given the focus on ethical food here you feel like it should be expensive but it just isn't. I always expect my bill to run higher than it does. I'm always surprised at how much I'm able to buy even before I factor in my student discount. That's not to say I don't often end up buying items beyond those which I went in for - with so much to offer it's hard to avoid picking up something new to try. Nevertheless it's always unexpectedly cheap.
There used to be more stores like this on Argyle Street. Companies like Tesco and Sainsburys priced them out and now only Roots and Fruits is left. I like that it's there as an option and I hope that it remains as an option for a long time, so even if it were more expensive I'd probably still choose to shop here when I can. Since it's less expensive it's actually foolish not to.
