Walter Gilfeather was a wholesaler who Billy Walker contacted when Hilda Ogden ran behind with the stock when she was in charge of the Corner Shop in 1970. The Welshman, a representative of Unifoods, arrived at the shop and showed Hilda a few of his bargain lines, but her eye was drawn instead to Walter's special lines and exotic foods and she began ordering large quantities of these while Walter looked on, astonished.