It is as if time has stood still here.
There is still a good old general store in the Frauenneuhartinger district of Tegernau.
It is now celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Tegernau -
Wiener and Leberkäs are currently on offer.
It's on posters right on the shop door.
In addition, three copper-colored helium balloons sway in the wind, which together form the number 100.
For 100 years, the Kramerladen in the Frauenneuhartingen district of Tegernau has been supplying the town with everything you need for life.
Bread, sausage, grave lights, cigarettes, garbage bags, mayonnaise, exercise books, flour, eggs, plums, shamoo, socks, ice cream:
The term “general store” is no understatement.
The trade license that the tailor couple Ottilie and Heinrich Fink applied for is dated September 4, 1921 - the name of the house remains from the tailoring that ceased in the 1950s.
The locals still use it today: In Tegernau you can buy the sausage at the "Schneider".
Kramerladen in Tegernau: Instead of locking up, new investments were made
Jutta Fink, 59, stands in the shop door in a red smock apron and shouts “Servus!” After a neighbor who has just stocked up on bananas, grapes and chocolate.
She still remembers how she and her husband Heinrich took over the general store from his parents.
Instead of locking up, they invested in new refrigeration equipment and brought the shop up to the standards required by the food inspection.
And have adapted to new customer needs over the years: Only a few people at Dorfkramer still do the entire week's shopping.
Although it can keep up with a discounter in terms of product range with around 1,300 items.
“It's more like acquisitions,” says Kramer.
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Bread, sweets and cigarettes ready to hand: Heinrich Fink (left) behind the sales counter of the Kramerladen.
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And, very important: the snacks.
The local craft businesses order around 50 rolls with roast meat, sausage and meat loaf every day.
On this day, Heinrich Fink, 68, has to go to the bakery again: The walk-in customers bought the bread crate empty.
“With vitamins?” Fink likes to ask before he fishes in the pickle jar when filling.
The saying doesn't get old.
Kramerladen in Tegernau: souvenirs in the shop window
On the occasion of their store anniversary, the Finks put a series of souvenirs from decades long ago in the shop window instead of the school leaflets: The analog Kramerwaage with the pendulum pointer was still in use until the turn of the millennium, remembers Jutta Fink. Next to it is a keyboard-less analog typewriter that looks a bit like an instrument of torture - and, according to Kramer Heinrich Fink, produces a similar effect when used. In addition to the enamelled coffee and nut mill, there are also relics from the “tailor's time”: the first electric iron that the family business used and heavy, cast iron buttonhole pliers, again an exhibit that could have come from a torture museum.
On the other hand, digitization has long since found its way into the everyday operations of the Tegernau corner shop.
The goods are ordered on a laptop, and when the Rewe supplier notifies Jutta Fink of a goods recall on her smartphone, she has cleared the product in question from the shelf within four hours and confirmed this on her smartphone.
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Historic house: The original general store, still with the tailoring, before the renovation in the 1960s.
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Kees
But there are a few things that the Finks are still old-school general stores: Instead of an electronic cash register system, the electronic calculating machine hums with the roll of paper when Heinrich Fink's fingers tap the prices, many of which he knows by heart, into the plastic keys.
Card payment?
Nothing.
And as with the Kramer generation before that, there is a little book in a drawer under the counter in which the Finks write down the debts of their regular customers when they forget their wallet at home.
It can stay that way for the next 100 years.
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