How the items for sale were displayed:

• on shelves behind a long counter.
• on top of the counter.
• hanging from the ceiling.
• hanging from hooks on the walls.
• in glass display cases.
• in the store windows.
• some goods were in containers
  (bins, barrels, crates or wooden boxes, baskets, sacks)

Goods that were kept in drawers and bins (beans, rice, tea, dried fruits, sugar, salt) were weighed on the scale for the customer then wrapped in brown paper.

Molasses and flour were sold by the barrel or in sacks (cloth bags).

Cheese was cut into pieces and wrapped.