Tuck shop

A tuck shop is a small retailer located either within or close to the grounds of a school, hospital, apartment complex,[1] or other similar facility.

In traditional British usage, tuck shops are associated chiefly with the sale of confectionery, sweets, or snacks and are common at private ('fee-paying') schools.

The term is used in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Botswana, The Bahamas and in other parts of the former British Empire.

[2] Tuck shops in a long-term care facility typically sell personal hygiene items such as razors, soap, and shampoo.

[citation needed] In Australia, where the tuck shop will typically be the only source of bought food at the school/club, the menu is more substantial and is more similar to the school dinners provided by the British government.

The London Directory of 1846 records his son Thomas James Tuck as a baker at "The Bun House" in Duncan Place.

"T J Tuck & Sons" is shown over the door of his store in the painting by Augustus Baker Peirce: "The Myers Creek Rush – near Sandhurst (Bendigo) Victoria" (located in the National Library of Australia).

[8] To some, this means providing healthier types of the same goods (for example using brown bread instead of white, selling milk and fruit juice instead of fizzy drinks and rice cakes and crackers instead of crisps).

[12] In Queensland, Australia, the State Government introduced in 2007 a basic "traffic-light system" across all school canteens, public and private.