A village shop at località Capanna, in Altopascio: the groceries on one side, the licensed salt and tobacco outlet on the other, under a single sign. At the counter, cured meats, cheeses, focaccia and cakes. Beyond that the stall goes out for the fairs, and that is all: they hold no weekly markets.
Company registered since 1986 · groceries and licensed salt and tobacco outlet · località Capanna, Altopascio
Alimentari Procissi is a shop at località Capanna, in Altopascio, in the province of Lucca. Its sign carries two things at once: the grocery counter and the licensed salt and tobacco outlet.
It stands in a hamlet of Altopascio, in the province of Lucca, on a road people usually take on their way somewhere else. It is the kind of shop that in a village holds together two functions which elsewhere sit in two different places: the shopping and the tobacco.
The company has existed since 1 April 1986. That is forty years on the same road.
In Altopascio, at that address, there is a licensed salt and tobacco outlet. And there is the grocery counter. The two stand under a single name: Alimentari e Tabacchi Procissi Laura & C.
It is not a bureaucratic detail. It is the reason a shop in a place like località Capanna stays open: whoever comes in for the cigarettes leaves with the bread, and the other way round.
What the shop keeps, divided the way the sign divides it.
Cured meats, cheeses, focaccia and cakes. Behind the same counter, the salt and the tobacco.
There are no weekly markets: they hold no market pitches. The stall goes out for the fairs, and the rest of the year it stays where it is, at località Capanna.
Anyone with a shutter to raise every morning is there. They go to the square when the square is a fair, and for the rest of the year it is the shop that is the fixed point: you pass by, you buy, and you collect the shopping ordered on Tuscany Market Hub.