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Economic Concepts In Our Corner Grocery Store

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Economic concepts are hidden everywhere, even in places they weren’t put intentionally. There are many examples of economic concepts in the story Our Corner Grocery Store. Like how in the story there are multiple times when it shows market economy. For example, when the story talks about Nonno changing the prices of lettuce and strawberries at the end of the day. If the store was government controlled he would not have been able to do that. The story also showed market economy when Nonna was writing the prices on little pieces of cardboard at the beginning of the day. If the corner grocery store was mostly command economy, the prices would probably be on pieces of plastic attached to the shelves, like they are at Meijer and other mainly government
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