Jorgen Faxholm : Adam's Shop

Adamou's historic Chiswick shop. Opened 1959, closed March 2011.
Acrylic on board, 2008

Gallery quality poster-prints (Limited edition, max 50) are available, framed, glazed, ready to hang, 365x610mm, £175, from jfaxholm at orchardsim dot com.

This is the kind of shop our children will have a hard time to find in the future.

Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's are well on the way to take over, making convenience shopping via easy access to a car park more and more common. The result is that they increasingly determine what we can buy and what not and tend to set the price (usually a high one) for our thus forced limited ambitions. Automatic tills and an overpowering competitve position are about to drive both local employment and small shops into oblivion.

Ultimately, we may all stay at home, ordering our food from the HD-LED screen of the computer, and let a service company bring us whatever they have on the shelf without giving us a chance to 'feel' the produce.
So what about the shopping experience?
What about choice?
What about the diversity of specialised shops?
What about the personal relationship with innovative greengrocers, who understand the market and who understand what their individual customers want?
And what about the feeling of experiencing a bustling High Street?

Welcome to the 21st Century.