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Vol. CXII · No. 4,822Late Drizzle EditionPrice: One Tablet
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Obituaries for Shops

Soor Plooms Emporium (1958–2026)

Fictional sweetie shop weighed its last quarter.

Jars, empty.

Jars, empty. Photo: Philip Halling, “Sweet jars in shop window - geograph.org.uk - 519847”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

The fictional Soor Plooms Emporium sold sweets by the quarter for nearly seventy years. Its scales are said to have been “generous after 3pm”. It leaves behind a city of slightly better teeth.

The real story: Fictional.

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