watch the store

The other big change under his watch: The store hosts events all year long, including 191 authors in 2017 by Sanchez’s count.

If I was going to watch the store, I needed a place where I could also watch my kids.”

Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, all 40-something Labour MPs, look and sound like lacklustre interim leaders, there to watch the store until someone else turns up.

Under their watch, the store has doubled in sales and carries a broad inventory, including more than 2,000 wines, 250 cheeses, 100 olive oils, 50 cured meats, bread from six local bakeries and “an obscene amount of chocolate.”

Someone had to watch the store.