The Grocer's Shop

Opening hours

Saturday and Sunday 12–16

Café 12.30–15.00 serving waffles with jam and cream, coffee & tea

Free entry

At The Grocer's Shop, you can buy old-fashioned goods. You can shop for things like juice, jam, honey, toys, and of course candy in a cone the old-fashioned way.

Autumn, winter, and spring, you can have coffee in The Grocer's Shop, inside what was once the last grocer's office.

From 12:30–15:00, The Grocer's Shop's friends serve waffles with jam and cream, coffee & tea.

During the summer months, we unfortunately cannot keep the café open.

On the shelves in the The Grocer's Shop, there are packages from the turn of the last century, taken from the Kulturens packaging collections.

The Early Days of the Packaging Industry

A large portion of the goods in a grocery store were sold in bulk, but the packaging industry began to emerge seriously around the turn of the 1900s.

The goods that were first sold in standard packaging, from the mid and late 1800s, were tobacco, soap, candles, and matches.

Tin cans could be produced mechanically after 1875, and canned goods then became more common in stores. In a grocery store, there were mostly anchovy cans.

Groceries

The first standard packages for groceries appeared around 1900. An example is five-kilo bags of flour that mills began to distribute around the turn of the last century.

The red oatmeal box from Gyllenhammars factory in Gothenburg came around 1904 and has not changed much since then.

Around the turn of the century, it was not uncommon to buy five kilos of flour at a time. Then one could get the flour in this kind of linen bag. | Photo from Kulturens yearbook 1963.

Mazetti's Eye Cocoa

Among the very earliest food packages was also Mazetti's Eye Cocoa, launched around 1905. At that time, the package was a bag, decorated with a realistically drawn pair of eyes.

Imaginative Bottles

On the shelves of the turn-of-the-century grocery store, there were many types of bottles: standard packages for beer, wine, acetic acid, vinegar spirit, mouthwash, salubrin, and ink. The bottles for mouthwash and liquid toothpaste had imaginative shapes, expensive caps, and eye-catching labels.

Beer did not need to be sold in the same way, beer bottles were dark brown, round, and unremarkable but still sold.

Unfortunately, one cannot enter through the doors of The Grocer's Shop with a wheelchair. 

Visiting address: Sankt Annegatan 9, 223 50 Lund.

The Grocer's Shop is around the corner from the museum Kulturen in Lund, near Lundagård and the cathedral.

If you are driving, you can park on certain streets nearby. It is also easy to take the train to Lund's central station and walk to The Grocer's Shop.