WESTLER MERCANTILE — If Westler has a beating heart, it beats here — in the biggest shop in town. Sacks of flour and sugar, coils of rope, shelves of cloth and candles, and everything in between. You can spot its roof from well outside of town.
Behind the Counter
Mr. Pennworth — a practical man with a ledger where his poetry ought to be. Firm on his prices, slow on credit even in hard times — but he is a good and honest man who will be there... as long as it's outside the store.
On the Shelves
- Ponta cookies — the famous ones. Hardly a soul leaves this shop without a box.
- Flour, sugar, salt, and pantry staples
- Rope, nails, lamp oil, and mending supplies
- Cloth by the yard
Current Special
The winter pantry stock-up: staples bundled and wrapped for the cold months — and yes, the Ponta cookie shelf gets restocked first. The man knows his town.
On the Notice Board
Ducket Stories on the Counter
This shop turns up in Peter Pumpkin-Eater, the way Matta tells it — "When I was in the mercantile lookin' at Ponta cookies." The whole business gets told across this counter, which Mr. Pennworth would tell you is not what a counter is for.
Peter Pumpkin-Eater99¢The whole story, start to finishIt turns up in Little Bo-Peep as well, the way Matta tells it — "I could see the roof of the mercantile just on the other side of this grain field." She got as far as the corner of the store, a juicy Waka Melon already in her mind's eye, before a crying girl caught her — and Mr. Pennworth's counter has been waiting on that sale ever since.
Little Bo-Peep99¢The whole story, start to finish