Melissa & Doug Deluxe Grocery Store / Lemonade Stand

Children can choose to set up a grocery shop or to sell lemonade with this transformable wooden play set

• Includes plastic bins and chalkboard signs, perfect for displaying, storing, and labeling
• Children practice writing and math skills as they label the bins and tally up the purchases.
• Encourages unlimited creative expression and hours of pretend play.
• For children 3 years +

Product Description

Whatever the season or weather, this wooden play center has the shop for you. You can decide whether to run a store or sell lemonade today! Featuring portable plastic bins for pretend shopping or storage, removable chalkboard signs, a spacious countertop and a reversible fabric awning.

Box Contains

stand, reversible awning, countertop, 9 plastic bins, 9 chalkboard signs

Item Weight 12 Kg
Product Dimensions 48.3 x 19.7 x 86.4 cm
Manufacturer recommended age: 3 years and up
Item model number 14070

Melissa & Doug Grocery Store Reviews

We’ve tried a quite a few Melissa & Doug toys, and found them all to be pretty good, but this one is a real treat. It has all the hallmarks of a traditional toy – it’s solidly made in wood and fabric, has genuine educational value, and offers plenty to fire a small child’s imagination. Yet it’s simple enough for any child to understand and engage with straight away.

It comes packed in a huge cardboard box (which Amazon ships wrapped in a heavy-duty plastic bag and packing tape. Assembly is easy enough, and after a few minutes you have yourself a shop all ready to play with. As you’ll have seen from the photos, the stall is a grocery store and lemonade stand, the change from one to the other made by flipping around the awning.

The only thing it’s missing is some stock. Your child will need something to put in those trays to sell, (unless of course you want it to be a play Soviet-era shop). A bag of play fruit and veg would be a great thing to include in the set, but alas it isn’t. However, Melissa & Doug do make sets of play groceries and fruit, complete with shopping baskets.

As for play… it’s probably not a lot of fun for just one child playing alone. It really needs a child playing with grown-up or, even better, with other children. Gosh, once two of three children get playing at storekeepers and customers, they are happy for hours, and there is almost nothing to break. What we weren’t expecting is that, to a child, it could be a post office, garage, doctor’s surgery, puppet show stage and goodness know what else, too, regardless of the signage.

It’s certainly a large toy, but its size is mostly vertical – it doesn’t take up much floor space. And it’s such a sold thing that, when you’re child has grown out of it, it will surely have pretty good resale value.
Amazon customer

I have just finished putting this item together, ready for my little girls birthday. It hasn't been difficult to out together, and was all fairly logical.

It is of really nice quality and looks really good. It is also a good and substantial size for small children.

It can be used as either a lemonade stand or a grocery stand - I think a grocery stand will be most used here. The stand doesn't come with any fruit or veg, so it will need to be purchased separately. I've noticed that the same manufacturers, Melissa and Doug, make play fruit and veg. I tend to trust them to make good quality toys, so will be purchasing their fruit and veg.

Overall, I am really pleased with how this looks. It is excellent for imaginative play and role play.

Would recommend.
Amazon customer