title: The Family Store: From Behind the Counter of an Old-fashioned Stationery Store
author: Susan Harrison McMichael
description: Susan Harrison McMichael was born and raised in Arizona. She has worn various career hats  English teacher, librarian, business owner, paralegal, and resume writer. For over thirty years she worked in the family store, the office supply store that forms the setting for this book.
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  ## II
  
  
  Miss Marple had a very enjoyable time at Robinson and Cleaver's. Besides
  purchasing expensive but delicious sheets - she loved linen sheets with their
  texture and their coolness - she also indulged in a purchase of good quality
  red-bordered dish cloths. Really the difficulty in getting proper dish cloths
  nowadays! Instead, you were offered things that might as well have been
  ornamental tablecloths, decorated with radishes or lobsters or the Tour Eiffel
  or Trafalgar Square, or else littered with lemons and oranges. Having given
  her address in St Mary Mead, Miss Marple found a convenient bus which took her
  to the Army and Navy Stores.
  
  
  The Army and Navy Stores had been a haunt of Miss Marple's aunt in days long
  gone. It was not, of course, quite the same nowadays. Miss Marple cast her
  thoughts back to Aunt Helen seeking out her own special man in the grocery
  department, settling herself co