For Ms. Landon, 52, the decision to run the hotel, which her grandparents and parents bought in 1947, was not automatic.

My grandparents, Fred and Abbie Chadwick, bought the place in 1921.

So the grandparents hadn't bought it.

Increasingly, she added, grandparents are buying even more high-end merchandise than parents.

It amuses me to think that my grandparents might have bought a pastry from her great-grandmother.

The grandparents bought them as, like, surrogate offspring, right?

By the time I graduated from college, my grandparents bought a house and some land.

"Some of this stock is stock their grandparents bought and handed down to them and they never thought about selling it."

My grandparents bought a house that cost less.

"My grandparents bought me some Continental miniatures," she said.