European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                From banking to burial service for All people flock to the food Halls every Day just to Marvel at the displays of meat and stories and photos by King Cruger Bureau chief a tale is told at harrods and folks at the London Emporium swear its a True one about the customer who came into the menagerie there and asked for an said the sales assistant without raising an or african a sort of British museum in which All exhibits Are for is arguably the worlds Best known department its renowned for a wide Range of goods and services and a willingness to Stock just about within the Walls of the six Story terracotta Palace on Brompton Road in fashionable knights Ridge Are approximately acres of Selling you can walk for what seems hour after hour through rooms displaying some of the most coveted goods in the harrods has a reputation for surveying very expensive things to very wealthy fabulous priceless the finest foods and wines in the the store Sells everything the top people need to remind them that they have arrived at the fifty thousand customers a Day last year spent 270 million pounds about million in 16 million forty per cent of the sales were to the motto of this unique store Omni unique All for All everywhere is still observed in philosophy if not completely in by its 230 you can Bank in the arrange to have your loved ones have a drink in its pub or four other eat in one of the five buy a shooting preserve in Book theater tickets or a journey to anywhere in the and have your goods and chattel whatever the cos effective arguments against remains the London department store with dog it is the last department store with a private lending it is the last store where customers May Deposit for safekeeping their fur Coats or Coronation it is the last store with a private Strong apportioned by dynastic whose Goldleaf Walls and engraved time locks Are unchanged from the Day of the first Deposit As a still in records in you May contemplate laying out a few thousand pounds on some jewelled Bauble or a Sable wrap the largest Cash Sale recorded was for pounds about but if you intend spending a smaller sum you Are most Likely to spend it in the food Halls which now account for some 10 percent of the stores annual that for the whole vast Enterprise sprang from it was in 1849 that Henry Charles a Success Ful Tea took Over a Small grocery shop in Brompton it employed two today harrods has a staff of half of them employed in direct boosted to during the Peak trading periods Christmas and the people flock to the food Halls every Day just to Marvel at the displays of vegetables meat and in the fishmonger department there is seafood of All kinds culminating in a Centrepiece of fish and crustacean a Piscina still life which astonishes those who regard dead fish As its an elegant tableau created daily featuring the pick of the fish buyers visit to the the meat Hall is perhaps the Only Butcher shop in the world that a Basilica of Marble and mosaic with wonderful scenes of the on its High 14 the stars and stripes above the shoppers gilded Birds built in a government preservation order ensures that the meat Hall remains very much As it was the food Halls sell 500 sorts of 50 varieties of 26 teas under its own Brand and 76 proprietary the wine department stocks 163 brands of Whis the bakery offers 130 different types of bread and during the Christmas period the store Sells 100 tons of Christmas pudding and mince elsewhere in the the mans shop Sells 500 different shirts and ties to go with on the second floor there Are 700 different ranges of China on on the fashion floor on any Day of the year there Are dresses to choose on the third floor 350 different suites of furniture Are on if you Are of a musical turn of harrods has the finest display of pianos anywhere Over 150 different instruments serviced by 40 piano strict new Laws governing the Sale of wild animals forced harrods in the 1970s to replace its menagerie by a far simpler pet department offering Pup Dwarf hamsters and occasional its definitely far less exotic than in the but youngsters still love to visit despite the fact that to the tourist harrods is As much London As the Tower or big last March the wealthy Alfaya family of Egypt acquired the House of Frazer with this Purchase they became the new owners of the store is open 9 to 5 from to 7 on 9 to 6 on the store will accept Telephone orders Call 7301234 in those distinctive and Mucor prize Goldo Green shopping bags of harrods dont go out with mail order