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In 1936 the business opened its second store, taking over an existing business at 569 Malvern Road, Toorak. In 1948, the business was registered as a company, O. R. Crittenden Ltd., grocers, with a capital of ÂŁ25,000. The firm also began to retail fine wines and spirits in bottle-shops within the
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Crittendens became well known in the affluent suburbs of
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grocery stores during the 1930s. Crittendens employed 60 staff at the
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and carried imported gourmet foods not widely available elsewhere. Some commodities - such as coffee, dried fruit, butter and bacon - was bought in bulk and repackaged under the
Crittenden brand.
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Maxwell (1921-2002) and Douglas Oscar (1923-2014), plus other long term employees of the company. The firm went on to have stores at Bay Street,
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in 1917 and the firm went on to have a total of seven retail outlets, mostly in the affluent south-eastern suburbs. The business was bought out by
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