They are at the heart of their communities, handily placed to keep you stocked with household essentials.
This retro photo gallery celebrates the corner shops and newsagents around Sheffield, and the owners who have served us with a smile down the decades.
The images show shops and the people who ran them, in many cases as a family business, across the city, from Page Hall to Ecclesall Road, as recently as the noughties and all the way back to the early 1900s.
Do you remember any of these shops and their owners, and are there any local shops you'd be lost without?
The images show shops and the people who ran them, in many cases as a family business, across the city, from Page Hall to Ecclesall Road, as recently as the noughties and all the way back to the early 1900s.