Have you noticed that in the US, a store is named after the stuff you get there, while in Scotland it's always after the person who provides the service? Here you go to a newsagents, a confectioners, a tobacconists (apostrophe optional). Back home, in the US, you go to a news stand, a candy shop, or a cigar shop.
Here, too, are lots of places labelled "Vintners • Victuallers." That latter word I've elsewhere seen only in Cambridge, Mass., and then only on official documents.
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