I have an additional, but different, memory of the wine department at Packards. In the summer of 1952, when I was 13 and too young to get “working papers”, at the not-so-gentle urging of my mother to do something useful I joined a group of local boys at Packards who carried out groceries for tips. It was a very lucrative summer, the highlight of which was getting a trunk load of returnable soda bottles as a tip (75 cents worth). Packards turned a blind eye to the practice until some of the boys injured themselves on broken bottles in the storeroom of the wine department (I wasn’t involved and can only guess why they were there) and banished the practice.