Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As a follow-on to Deputy Tóibín's comments, what we knew as the newsagent is becoming more and more the convenience store, which falls under the groceries umbrella. Big multiple stores such as Tesco, are scaling down to convenience-type stores in certain locations, particularly in cities which have a passing population for convenience purposes. The blurring of the types of goods which appear in these types of stores suggest the types of products with which the newsagents was traditionally associated are now common convenience store items, which include groceries. This is the 21st century rather than the first half of the 20th century.

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