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...three biggest grocers,* Weston has 400 supermarkets in Europe alone. Among his holdings: the U.S.'s National Tea Co., Canada's Loblaw Groceterias, Australia's Tip Top Bakeries, Britain's huge (more than 200 subsidiaries) Associated British Foods Ltd. and London's staid old Fortnum & Mason store in Piccadilly, where upper-class Britons have bought their Yorkshire pies and potted shrimp since...
...death, the Cavendish was meeting the ignominious end that has overtaken many of London's best-loved structures in the postwar building boom. In September it will be torn down to make way for a gleaming new (and conventional) hotel. Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures...
...boiled for three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's. The coffeepot and the silver on the tray were Queen Anne and the china was Minton." One memorable meal, in Moonraker, takes 6½ pages for Bond to order...
...FORTNUM & MASON of London, the world's most elegant and conservative (the clerks wear morning dress) food specialty store, is going modern. After installing cash registers (without bells), the store will now put in a U.S.-style soda fountain to "keep abreast of the times...
...London's gastronomic spectrum stands Fortnum & Mason, which specializes in the world's most elegant delicacies; its salesmen wear morning coats, ship such rarities as boar's head in aspic and breast of Scottish grouse to all corners of the globe. At the other end are London's ABC shops, a chain of 164 cheap self-service tearooms. This week the Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain...