Anyone remember grinding a bag of 8 o'clock coffee at the A&P store and that wonderful aroma of the freshly ground coffee beans? Ahhh..... the good old days☕ ☕☕☕😊❤️
I remember standing in line to cash in my Green Stamps. I think I got a toaster or something like that. So much fun pasting them in the those little books!
A&P initially had the own brand of trading stamps, Plaid Stamps which were replaced by S&H. There were other stamp chains around like Top Value. My mother told me once that a cashier had hit the wrong key and accidentally cranked out a lot of higher value stamps. Those were the days when you had to have smarts to run a register - when to push that button, when to pull that lever.
That’s how we learned to count by 5’s! I just remembered that! I so vividly remember momma showing me how to get the long line of stamps, count 5 (because that’s how the books were set up) lick em & stick em! We eventually got a dampened sponge so you no longer had to taste the stamps glue or get paper cuts on your tongue 👅
My grandpa was the produce manager for our local A&P in Grand Rapids, MI for many years. He took so much pride in his work. His department was always clean and tidy, unlike some produce areas in stores these days!
I used to shop at Meijer and A&P when i was in G.R. A&P got me hooked with Pop-Tarts, frosted apple cinnamon being my favorite. Where was his store located?
I was a grocery store bagger as a teenager. I was almost always brought the groceries to the customers’ cars. I didn’t expect tips, but it was nice to get them.
If you got a quarter tip back when minimum wage was $1.15 you were making more in tips than wages very quickly. Always complimented the older ladies on their dress or hat. That could get you a 50 cent piece. 😊
In 1968, in Dallas, when I was 7 years old, we always grocery shopped at Piggly Wiggly, as it was just down the street. I remember the grocery boy pushing out two carts of groceries for my Mama. He unloaded the carts into the trunk of our 1968 Oldsmobile, which was huge. The groceries filled the trunk full. On the way back home, my mother said to me and my little brother, "Please don't tell your Daddy that Mama just spent $35.00 at the grocery store!" Yes, in 1968, you could feed a family of four for almost two weeks on $35.00. Gasoline was also .27c per gallon. The "good ole days".
Thanks for the memories! I hope your dad didn't beat your mom though. It was also the times, when a factory worker man in his early 20ties with no education but maybe high school could buy a home and even a car and still have enough money to feed a homemaker wife and 3+ kids. Now we struggle on 2 educated incomes to afford 2 kids and have to settle for an apartment rather than a house unless we want a 2hr commute.
@@barath4545 That sounds very much like our family! Both my parents did work. My father was going to college still at night to be an engineer. He graduated in 1969. My mother was an insurance saleslady. Me and my little brother were 7 and 2. My dad excelled quickly in business, getting his own plastics plant to manage and mom stopped working so hard. We had a nice middle class life with a new house, two new cars, and plenty of food on the table. The Great American Dream. I am so blessed to have been raised then. I feel so sorry for today's struggling families under Bidenomic socialism.
Back then, people didn't go to the grocery store in their pj bottoms or grubbies. That's why the shoppers are wearing "day" dresses, even hats and gloves. Even those in sportswear were wearing "good" sportswear.
WHO THE FUCK CARES!!!!! YOU’RE JUST PICKING UP SOME FOOD!!!! WHY SHOULD ANYONE DRESS UP FOR OTHERS JUST TO PICK UP MILK AND BREAD!!!!!! WHY SHOULD THAT BOTHER YOU?!?!?
My first time not in a carriage in an A&P was when I was 4 years old in the 50’s.I remember breaking open a pack of hostess cupcakes when my mother wasn’t looking😅❤ your channel
Kewl cool kewl, going back to yesterday and as a little boy raised on a farm, going to town was a treat, walking into one of these big grocery stores and the smell as soon as you walked in was like WOW! clean floors, clean everything, folks were dressed, not in grubby hippy clothes like today! You triggered 10:00 minutes of happy good feel moments...miss those times and places. Thank you! ❤👍🙏
A & P was the largest chain in the country back in the day. The lat one I was in was in Vermont in '76! My neighbor in Pittsburgh drove over 2 million miles for them!
Never knew what the A&P stood for although my Mommy and Grandmomny shopped there in the 60's and 70's. Atlantic and Pacific....how cool...learned something new today ❤.
I was wondering through the whole video when you were going to mention Publix. 😅 The BEST grocery store back then and now. We Floridians are spoiled. Love this TH-cam channel!
The first Kmart in Garden City Michigan was our go-to store when I was a kid. Great video but you forgot to mention there submarine sandwiches which everybody remembers.
Publix has been my choice of stores for many years. The customer service is not as good as it used to be, but they are still by far the best. Along with their weekly sale items and BOGOs, they are still the best bargain around. Thanks Publix! 🥰
I do remember going to the different stores for fish (seafood); butcher, bakery and we had a milkman delivery. We also had a produce vender once a week come down the street.
Green stamps and top value yellow stamps just for buying groceries you got prizes to from a little store with cool stuff. I filled a lot of those little books for momma
Fun video. We didn't have any of those stores in western NY. Some of ours were Wegmans (still going strong) Star Market, IGA, Big M, Loblaws, Super Duper...and more.
I grew up in Elmira, NY and my high school job was to clean the offices of Super Duper's food distibutor (Flickinger's). They did all the purchasing and used to put saleman's samples out for anyone who wanted some. It was always 6 months ahead of the season, so we would be eating Halloween candy in March and Christmas candy in the middle of summer. Thanks for that memory - I hadn't thought about Super Duper in forever! I used to have a Super Duper ash tray that I cleaned and used as a spoon rest on my stove when I had my first apartment. It must have gotten lost during a move somewhere along the way. Wish that I still had it.
I remember going to the local market with my mom. There was a alpha beta, thrifty and a White Front. I still remember doing my own shopping at Lucky's and Safeway. I miss those old stores.
We had a Red owl store here in Wisconsin, i also remember when pic n save first came to town and the gave you a grease pencil to write the price on the product for the cashier's to ring up. Some great times.
My greatest A&P treasure is my set for 12 of Blue Currier and Ives stoneware my parents purchased week after week as a promotion. It had an amazing array of serving pieces as well. We used it for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner and now I am the lucky owner. I treasure them all and use them for my own Holiday meals.
@@jcbulldog533 We live in Minnesota, but always make it a point to do our shopping at Publix whenever we're in Florida. It's kind of hard to describe, but the experience of shopping at Publix is just so very pleasant. The stores are clean, bright, and spacious. The employees are always super helpful and friendly. When you compare the shopping experiences you have at so many retail stores nowadays - (with uninterested/unhelpful employees who are staring at their phones, poor customer service, etc.) - shopping at Publix is almost like going back in time to an era when people took pride in the jobs and their companies. The TH-cam channel @recollectionroad did a great video on the store's history. The comments people posted on this video really say a lot about what people love about Publix. Here's the link, if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/4clkkWiDmbs/w-d-xo.html
Wow, what a fascinating trip down memory lane! 🎥 I remember shopping at some of these stores with my parents - such nostalgic memories! It's amazing to see how much the retail landscape has changed over the decades. Thank you for this wonderfully detailed and insightful video. Curious, did anyone else here ever visit a King Cullen or an A&P?
One thing from the past was that people (esp women) dressed better to go to the market. One thing that is changing back is that self checkout is beginning to disappear because of theft.
I was a kid in the 60s. I remember peeking into the back of the meat department when the swinging doors would open and seeing all the bloody sawdust on the floor. 😯😄
Great video, but I'm surprised that Jewel Foods was left off the list. I remember when Jewel opened their first Jewel Grand Bazaar super-grocery store on the southwest side of Chicago. It was amazing! Samples at every department - you could have a free lunch just tasting samples of lunchmeat, cheese, pizza, burgers, etc. And they had a parcel pick up where you pulled your car up to an enclosed tent and the bag boys would bring your cart out and load up the car. Ah the good old days!
In the Detroit Michigan Area we had the grocery stores, Farmer Jack. They were everywhere, now defunct. Its a sad story of mismanagement. So its one more to add to future episodes of grocery stores not here anymore. Love these videos.
oh, shoot, i just mentioned them. They were Detroit-based, and A&P returned to Michigan by acquiring them. The Clawson Farmer Jack had the narrow lanes and the turnstile to enter or leave, must have been vintage 1950s. A&P sank some major bucks into them, I returned to the Clawson store when it was upgraded. I LOVE their rotisserie chicken, Yummy!
I wish grocery stores still looked like they did 0:26 in the 50s. They suck today because nobody cares about design or color and they’re all soulless clones of each other, even across different companies.
I agree. I say the same thing about all businesses today. All square, gray, brown. Depressing. Loved the 50’s-60’s art deco and the printing style, and the bright colors.
Clarence Saunders was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. On September 11, 1916, Saunders launched the self-service revolution in the United States by opening the first self-service Piggly Wiggly store at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis, Tennessee. (Wikipedia)
@@johnp139I personally despise self-checkouts why should I scan & bag my own groceries?? When the checkers that are getting paid can do it for me..Besides their faster than me & it gives them job security
My dad joined the Air Force in 1978 and we moved from a dot on the map in NW Georgia to Mather AFB, Sacramento. We'd never seen a Kroger until then. Just Piggly Wiggly, Big Star, and local grocery stores.
Never saw a real grocery store until I was in elementary school when I went with a friend's family, it freaked me out because the only place my family ever got groceries was on base at the commissary.
The History Channel (Modern Marvels?) credits Piggly Wiggly with launching the modern supermarket. They hosted a convention in Philadelphia (that my grandfather went to as well as Hendrik Meijer) in 1940 or '41 that persuaded grocers to convert to supermarkets. There was a Piggly Wiggly on U.S. 24 east of Kansas City (I think the community was Sugar Creek) as late as 2011 but its gone now.
Armata's Supermarket, Massachusetts, (East) Longmeadow and Monson. A few cereal brands. Paper bags that we would use to cart our Monson Free Library treasures home! I love Palmer Public Library, next door to Monson! 1970s
I also miss Gemco in California! They were a membership store that featured Lucky brands like Lady Lee! We don't have actual Kroger stores out here but stores like Foodsco features their brand heavily!
Most interesting! Think about the grocery stores in the West and what has happen to many of them. I would find that most interesting too. Enjoyed the video. Carol from California
when talking about Kroger today it also includes the following sub chains. Ralphs, Dillons, Smith's, King Soopers, Fry's, QFC, City Market, Owen's, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker's, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, Mariano's
Excellent point. When i was moving to Missouri, I asked a Kroger employee if there were any Krogers 'cause i couldn't find any online. He said "No". I later learned that Kroger had pulled out of the state after a nasty strike. However I stopped at a Gerbes in Columbia (Mo) and immediately sensed it was a Kroger - from layout and color scheme. I asked a clerk, and as soon as I did i saw Kroger label products. Gerbes is in a subgroup with Baker's, Dillons, and others, however Dillons, excepting a store in Leavenworth, retreated west to Topeka. Drat, great fish kabobs. However I did see evidence of Kroger previously being in Gladstone (Mo). My local Gerbes ran out of a coffee maker I really liked on sale, offered to try and find it for me. Several months later got a call from them, they had shipped one in from a Baker's further west and would sell it at the sale price but i was not obligated to buy it. I did
A&P….The great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Kroger’s in Milwaukee was called Krambo’s before that.In GreenBay Wisconsin there’s only 1 Red Owl Food Store left. My uncle drove a semi between Green Bay and Milwaukee stores delivering food.
When I was a kid in the 60s...we had neighborhood stores..."JAY'S" in Alliance, Ohio.....then we moved to Albion Michigan....That town had lots of store.....A&P.... Krogers....IGA...Feldpausch....was owned locally.....then country stores.
The fresh tortillas were the best. Still warm when you got them home. I would buy a ten pack and just eat them plain watching tv. One of the few things I miss when I lived in Houston.
I'd go back in a heartbeat..... what happened? How has life gone down the tubes? I thought things were supposed to get better not worse. Am grateful most of my life is over and was lived in the best of times.
Publix still takes your groceries out to your car for you, and they wear a button saying “no tipping”. It’s part of the baggers job to do this for you.
I love Publix. Way back when, it was either Publix or Winn-Dixie/Kwik Chek for groceries. Kwik-Cheks were separate stores although Winn-Dixie sold Kwik-Chek products like Chek-brand soda.
Anyone from the Rockford Illinois area and remember Hilander and Logli. They competed with each other but in 2000 Schnucks came in from Saint Louis and bought up both of them and branded them as Schnucks.
Your prices probably went up when Schucks came in - until recently, the most expensive grocer in town. They do carry products others don't, and some exotic ones (bacon made from duck meat). They sold off almost all their pharmacies to CVS.
@@wolteraartsma1290You don't think Diebergs is more expensive than Schnucks??!! I most definitely do,I seriously can't afford to shop there ever. Their Sales aren't that Fabulous either
At the 0.30 mark, the picture is of a Publix store (the striped terrazzo floor gives it away). Publix is still going strong, in it's 94th year. It is definitely NOT a forgotten grocery store.
@@johnp139 Really ??? We lived in a small hole in the wall town in Maine, we had no food store down the street -- it was about 20 miles away. Our roads weren't plowed/sand/salted on a regular basis in the winter. In a bad snow we were on our own. In the winter we would keep frozen food on the back porch, no need for a freezer in the winter. We always had a full propane tank at the start of winter, our oven didn't need electricity to work. Have a great day......
We used to have a Winn-Dixie and a Bi-Lo but both are closed now. Now our choices here in my western NC town are Ingles, Walmart, food-lion and the latest addition of Publix. Which imo sucks. Small selection and high prices....you aren't missing anything!
The butcher would sometimes sneak his thumb onto the scale so it looked like you had bought more than you really had. I remember that an artist had a customer with her thumb under the scale and pushed it up.. Norman Rockwell was the artist. 😅
Publix enjoys the comfort of existing in a world without Union members, so there's a good chance you won't see one in Minnesota any time soon. They also try to stay in areas where there is little to no snow. They have a lot of footprint to continue to grow in the Southeast before they ever consider venturing into any state above the Mason Dixon line or west of the Mississippi river..
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Anyone remember grinding a bag of 8 o'clock coffee at the A&P store and that wonderful aroma of the freshly ground coffee beans? Ahhh..... the good old days☕ ☕☕☕😊❤️
I remember when I first tasted coffee and couldn’t understand why it smelled so good but tasted so bad. I don’t drink coffee to this day.
Hy Vee took over the Eagle store. At least in the quad cities.
What about Walmart? They have 15 checkout centers but sometimes they have only one open. 😮
One of the best memories, the best smelling coffee!
Yes….I remember !
I am from the Netherlands and I love these old pictures schowing a beautiful America!
Yes, it was beautiful indeed...
@@StarCrystal9 I think America was in this era also an example voor Europe
We in Norway appreciate it also. Yours truly, Gunn Karin Jorgensen.
@@MaryLagunes-k4l Norway is also a beautiful country.. Best regards Rob de Jong
I wish America were not so awful now.
I remember standing in line to cash in my Green Stamps. I think I got a toaster or something like that. So much fun pasting them in the those little books!
I still have the clothes hamper my mom bought with green stamps.
A&P initially had the own brand of trading stamps, Plaid Stamps which were replaced by S&H. There were other stamp chains around like Top Value. My mother told me once that a cashier had hit the wrong key and accidentally cranked out a lot of higher value stamps. Those were the days when you had to have smarts to run a register - when to push that button, when to pull that lever.
I remember my mom always collecting the s&h Green stamps, good memories!
@@oliveoliveira6020 Except when we had to paste them in. YIKES! Least we got a sponge, didn't have to use our tongue!
That’s how we learned to count by 5’s! I just remembered that! I so vividly remember momma showing me how to get the long line of stamps, count 5 (because that’s how the books were set up) lick em & stick em!
We eventually got a dampened sponge so you no longer had to taste the stamps glue or get paper cuts on your tongue 👅
My grandpa was the produce manager for our local A&P in Grand Rapids, MI for many years. He took so much pride in his work. His department was always clean and tidy, unlike some produce areas in stores these days!
I used to shop at Meijer and A&P when i was in G.R. A&P got me hooked with Pop-Tarts, frosted apple cinnamon being my favorite. Where was his store located?
I remember A&P and the wonderful smell of the coffee my father was grinding
I was a grocery store bagger as a teenager. I was almost always brought the groceries to the customers’ cars. I didn’t expect tips, but it was nice to get them.
Me too, Piggly Wiggly! Loved having a pocket full of quarters.
I work in grocery store now 2024. Not allowed to accept tips. Yet every where else I go I see tip jars. They DON'T tippy me. So they DON'T get got..
@@jat6547 that’s a shame about the tips. But the 80’s was a different era. I’d go back in a minute.
I like the 80's too
If you got a quarter tip back when minimum wage was $1.15 you were making more in tips than wages very quickly. Always complimented the older ladies on their dress or hat. That could get you a 50 cent piece. 😊
Love old pictures!!!❤😂 love this chanel!!
In 1968, in Dallas, when I was 7 years old, we always grocery shopped at Piggly Wiggly, as it was just down the street. I remember the grocery boy pushing out two carts of groceries for my Mama. He unloaded the carts into the trunk of our 1968 Oldsmobile, which was huge. The groceries filled the trunk full. On the way back home, my mother said to me and my little brother, "Please don't tell your Daddy that Mama just spent $35.00 at the grocery store!"
Yes, in 1968, you could feed a family of four for almost two weeks on $35.00. Gasoline was also .27c per gallon. The "good ole days".
Thanks for the memories!
I hope your dad didn't beat your mom though.
It was also the times, when a factory worker man in his early 20ties with no education but maybe high school could buy a home and even a car and still have enough money to feed a homemaker wife and 3+ kids. Now we struggle on 2 educated incomes to afford 2 kids and have to settle for an apartment rather than a house unless we want a 2hr commute.
Gas was 29 a gallon and dad made 2 dollars per hour 😢
@@barath4545 That sounds very much like our family! Both my parents did work. My father was going to college still at night to be an engineer. He graduated in 1969. My mother was an insurance saleslady. Me and my little brother were 7 and 2. My dad excelled quickly in business, getting his own plastics plant to manage and mom stopped working so hard. We had a nice middle class life with a new house, two new cars, and plenty of food on the table. The Great American Dream. I am so blessed to have been raised then. I feel so sorry for today's struggling families under Bidenomic socialism.
Piggley Wiggley still exist
@@troyjenkins3886 Not in Texas.
One of my favourite channels! Thanks for your hard work. It is so cool to look back. Much appreciated.
Oh to travel back in time❤
well, you just did, kind of.....
Clean and calm. White things.
@@alpha-omega2362 That was just a glimpse in time.. I want to go back! ♥️🤍💙
Yes, now welcome to Wal-Mart, all things from overseas 👎👎👎
😍😍😍
Back then, people didn't go to the grocery store in their pj bottoms or grubbies. That's why the shoppers are wearing "day" dresses, even hats and gloves. Even those in sportswear were wearing "good" sportswear.
One of the first things I noticed too. Had to keep hitting the pause button to get a good look at everything lol.
WHO THE FUCK CARES!!!!! YOU’RE JUST PICKING UP SOME FOOD!!!! WHY SHOULD ANYONE DRESS UP FOR OTHERS JUST TO PICK UP MILK AND BREAD!!!!!! WHY SHOULD THAT BOTHER YOU?!?!?
We had class and style, unlike now!
In the late 70’s halter tops were popular 😊
Those were totally different people, they wouldn’t put up with the BS we put up with.
There's a Piggly Wiggly just down the street. It's like walkin into 1964.
Super cool memories of yesteryears 💛💜👍
My first time not in a carriage in an A&P was when I was 4 years old in the 50’s.I remember breaking open a pack of hostess cupcakes when my mother wasn’t looking😅❤ your channel
Kewl cool kewl, going back to yesterday and as a little boy raised on a farm, going to town was a treat, walking into one of these big grocery stores and the smell as soon as you walked in was like WOW! clean floors, clean everything, folks were dressed, not in grubby hippy clothes like today! You triggered 10:00 minutes of happy good feel moments...miss those times and places. Thank you! ❤👍🙏
Awesome!
Now do forgotten restaurants of the past!
In Atlanta, Georgia, I remember my mother shopping at the local Colonial store
My great grandmother loved A&P!
Love the CARS 🚗 in the picture. I WANTED my grandmother's car SO BAD but didn't happen.😢😊
Shame we can't TURN BACK TIME 😂😂
Texas Nana
Rogers SuperMarket the Bubble Yum 8 pack of grape gum was my pick of things to get 1 of I was allowed!~ I miss the late 70's & 80's grocery stores!~
My first job was as a box boy at Alpha Beta in Whittier, CA in 1969. My mom shopped at Von’s and Ralph’s in SoCal back in the day.
A & P was the largest chain in the country back in the day. The lat one I was in was in Vermont in '76! My neighbor in Pittsburgh drove over 2 million miles for them!
Last of the A&Ps were retreated back to CT, NJ and NYC ... Waldbaum's was theirs too . Best beloved grocers ever!!!
What did he do his shopping on the moon or some such
Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed that walk down memory lane.
Never knew what the A&P stood for although my Mommy and Grandmomny shopped there in the 60's and 70's. Atlantic and Pacific....how cool...learned something new today ❤.
Me too!
I was wondering through the whole video when you were going to mention Publix. 😅 The BEST grocery store back then and now. We Floridians are spoiled. Love this TH-cam channel!
The first Kmart in Garden City Michigan was our go-to store when I was a kid. Great video but you forgot to mention there submarine sandwiches which everybody remembers.
Publix has been my choice of stores for many years. The customer service is not as good as it used to be, but they are still by far the best. Along with their weekly sale items and BOGOs, they are still the best bargain around. Thanks Publix! 🥰
They had separate meat stores in the 1960s. Remember that one episode of Andy Griffin were aunt Bee purchased all that meat that she couldn't store.?
I think Aunt Bea had her slaughter house and ham smoker....it was a nice ladylike hobby 🍖🥓🥩
I do remember going to the different stores for fish (seafood); butcher, bakery and we had a milkman delivery. We also had a produce vender once a week come down the street.
Green stamps and top value yellow stamps just for buying groceries you got prizes to from a little store with cool stuff. I filled a lot of those little books for momma
Fun video. We didn't have any of those stores in western NY. Some of ours were Wegmans (still going strong) Star Market, IGA, Big M, Loblaws, Super Duper...and more.
I grew up in Elmira, NY and my high school job was to clean the offices of Super Duper's food distibutor (Flickinger's). They did all the purchasing and used to put saleman's samples out for anyone who wanted some. It was always 6 months ahead of the season, so we would be eating Halloween candy in March and Christmas candy in the middle of summer. Thanks for that memory - I hadn't thought about Super Duper in forever! I used to have a Super Duper ash tray that I cleaned and used as a spoon rest on my stove when I had my first apartment. It must have gotten lost during a move somewhere along the way. Wish that I still had it.
8 o'clock is STILL my preferred brand of coffee!!. Whole bean, please!!. I grind it fresh!!.
I remember going to the local market with my mom. There was a alpha beta, thrifty and a White Front. I still remember doing my own shopping at Lucky's and Safeway. I miss those old stores.
We had a Red owl store here in Wisconsin, i also remember when pic n save first came to town and the gave you a grease pencil to write the price on the product for the cashier's to ring up. Some great times.
My greatest A&P treasure is my set for 12 of Blue Currier and Ives stoneware my parents purchased week after week as a promotion. It had an amazing array of serving pieces as well. We used it for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner and now I am the lucky owner. I treasure them all and use them for my own Holiday meals.
There was also a Big Bear Grocery store in Poway California.
I lived in Florida for over 40 years and wouldn't think of shopping anywhere but Publix. They were and still are the best!
Yes! One more good reason to move to Florida!
Can someone please elaborate?? I've seen them while in Florida but actually never went inside..Darn, obviously I missed something good perhaps 🤔🤔
@@jcbulldog533 We live in Minnesota, but always make it a point to do our shopping at Publix whenever we're in Florida. It's kind of hard to describe, but the experience of shopping at Publix is just so very pleasant. The stores are clean, bright, and spacious. The employees are always super helpful and friendly. When you compare the shopping experiences you have at so many retail stores nowadays - (with uninterested/unhelpful employees who are staring at their phones, poor customer service, etc.) - shopping at Publix is almost like going back in time to an era when people took pride in the jobs and their companies. The TH-cam channel @recollectionroad did a great video on the store's history. The comments people posted on this video really say a lot about what people love about Publix. Here's the link, if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/4clkkWiDmbs/w-d-xo.html
Wow, what a fascinating trip down memory lane! 🎥 I remember shopping at some of these stores with my parents - such nostalgic memories! It's amazing to see how much the retail landscape has changed over the decades. Thank you for this wonderfully detailed and insightful video. Curious, did anyone else here ever visit a King Cullen or an A&P?
One thing from the past was that people (esp women) dressed better to go to the market. One thing that is changing back is that self checkout is beginning to disappear because of theft.
Why should anyone have to dress up just to buy food? STUPID!
I was a kid in the 60s. I remember peeking into the back of the meat department when the swinging doors would open and seeing all the bloody sawdust on the floor. 😯😄
Great video, but I'm surprised that Jewel Foods was left off the list. I remember when Jewel opened their first Jewel Grand Bazaar super-grocery store on the southwest side of Chicago. It was amazing! Samples at every department - you could have a free lunch just tasting samples of lunchmeat, cheese, pizza, burgers, etc. And they had a parcel pick up where you pulled your car up to an enclosed tent and the bag boys would bring your cart out and load up the car. Ah the good old days!
What lovely times what has the world come to
Great content. Thanks!
In the Detroit Michigan Area we had the grocery stores, Farmer Jack. They were everywhere, now defunct. Its a sad story of mismanagement. So its one more to add to future episodes of grocery stores not here anymore. Love these videos.
We had a Farmer Jack in Saginaw too.
@GreenSneakersAndHam1 I shopped at the farmer jack on ecorse rd near monroe street in Taylor Michigan
I remember Farmer Jack’s
oh, shoot, i just mentioned them. They were Detroit-based, and A&P returned to Michigan by acquiring them. The Clawson Farmer Jack had the narrow lanes and the turnstile to enter or leave, must have been vintage 1950s. A&P sank some major bucks into them, I returned to the Clawson store when it was upgraded. I LOVE their rotisserie chicken, Yummy!
I wish grocery stores still looked like they did 0:26 in the 50s. They suck today because nobody cares about design or color and they’re all soulless clones of each other, even across different companies.
I agree. I say the same thing about all businesses today. All square, gray, brown. Depressing. Loved the 50’s-60’s art deco and the printing style, and the bright colors.
Yup,no decor.
Clarence Saunders was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. On September 11, 1916, Saunders launched the self-service revolution in the United States by opening the first self-service Piggly Wiggly store at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis, Tennessee. (Wikipedia)
And people today complain about self-checkout, but don’t think anything about getting their own groceries off of the shelves.
@@johnp139I personally despise self-checkouts why should I scan & bag my own groceries?? When the checkers that are getting paid can do it for me..Besides their faster than me & it gives them job security
My dad joined the Air Force in 1978 and we moved from a dot on the map in NW Georgia to Mather AFB, Sacramento. We'd never seen a Kroger until then. Just Piggly Wiggly, Big Star, and local grocery stores.
In Ohio, I remember Big Bear grocery stores and they gave Green stamps. Fulmers was another store I remembered in the late 50s and 60s
Everyone was so put together and fit in those days. Must’ve been a great era to be an adult and have a family back then
In WI I most remember Piggly Wiggly, Red Owls, and of course we had Kohls.
Back when America had class. ❤
Never saw a real grocery store until I was in elementary school when I went with a friend's family, it freaked me out because the only place my family ever got groceries was on base at the commissary.
My family lived near a Piggly Wiggly store in Reseda, CA...early 1960s
The History Channel (Modern Marvels?) credits Piggly Wiggly with launching the modern supermarket. They hosted a convention in Philadelphia (that my grandfather went to as well as Hendrik Meijer) in 1940 or '41 that persuaded grocers to convert to supermarkets. There was a Piggly Wiggly on U.S. 24 east of Kansas City (I think the community was Sugar Creek) as late as 2011 but its gone now.
If old memories serve correctly, the PW was on White Oak.
@@thomasottvideos Tampa and Victory
That's where Daniel LaRusso lived.
Super que de souvenirs, seul les Cadis n'ont pas beaucoup évolués depuis ces belles années... Vos vidéos sont toujours passionnantes. 👍✌✌😉✌
I remember going to Super Fresh which sat abandoned forever then it became a Giant. The whole area of Odenton turned out!
Super Fresh was A&P's great hope for a comeback. Mentioned in Wikipedia
@@wolteraartsma1290 I didn’t know that. Thank you.
Armata's Supermarket, Massachusetts, (East) Longmeadow and Monson. A few cereal brands. Paper bags that we would use to cart our Monson Free Library treasures home! I love Palmer Public Library, next door to Monson! 1970s
I also miss Gemco in California! They were a membership store that featured Lucky brands like Lady Lee! We don't have actual Kroger stores out here but stores like Foodsco features their brand heavily!
Michigan had Chatham Supermarket too. I remember the talking scanner...heehee, always wanted to buy something 'naughty' to hear what it would say
Thanks again.
I worked for Eagle country market in the 80s late 80s in Aurora Illinois
Most interesting! Think about the grocery stores in the West and what has happen to many of them. I would find that most interesting too. Enjoyed the video. Carol from California
I love my Publix store. We have 10 of them here in The Villages, Florida.
when talking about Kroger today it also includes the following sub chains. Ralphs, Dillons, Smith's, King Soopers, Fry's, QFC, City Market, Owen's, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker's, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, Mariano's
Excellent point. When i was moving to Missouri, I asked a Kroger employee if there were any Krogers 'cause i couldn't find any online. He said "No". I later learned that Kroger had pulled out of the state after a nasty strike. However I stopped at a Gerbes in Columbia (Mo) and immediately sensed it was a Kroger - from layout and color scheme. I asked a clerk, and as soon as I did i saw Kroger label products. Gerbes is in a subgroup with Baker's, Dillons, and others, however Dillons, excepting a store in Leavenworth, retreated west to Topeka. Drat, great fish kabobs. However I did see evidence of Kroger previously being in Gladstone (Mo). My local Gerbes ran out of a coffee maker I really liked on sale, offered to try and find it for me. Several months later got a call from them, they had shipped one in from a Baker's further west and would sell it at the sale price but i was not obligated to buy it. I did
The Piggly Wiggly in Memphis, TN in 1916 ... So Kullen wasn't the first self service grocery store in America. :)
A&P….The great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Kroger’s in Milwaukee was called Krambo’s before that.In GreenBay Wisconsin there’s only 1 Red Owl Food Store left. My uncle drove a semi between Green Bay and Milwaukee stores delivering food.
When I was a kid in the 60s...we had neighborhood stores..."JAY'S" in Alliance, Ohio.....then we moved to Albion Michigan....That town had lots of store.....A&P.... Krogers....IGA...Feldpausch....was owned locally.....then country stores.
+1 for Publix.
HEB, founded in Kerrville, Texas, in 1905, is still going strong as one of most favorite stores in the state.
The fresh tortillas were the best. Still warm when you got them home. I would buy a ten pack and just eat them plain watching tv. One of the few things I miss when I lived in Houston.
I remember Market Basket, Food Giant, Alpha Beta, back in the 60's.
I remember a Bohack's on Vanderbilt Ave. in Brooklyn, NY.
Wow, Bohack's. Haven't heard that word in centuries.
I'd go back in a heartbeat..... what happened? How has life gone down the tubes? I thought things were supposed to get better not worse. Am grateful most of my life is over and was lived in the best of times.
Publix still takes your groceries out to your car for you, and they wear a button saying “no tipping”. It’s part of the baggers job to do this for you.
I love Publix. Way back when, it was either Publix or Winn-Dixie/Kwik Chek for groceries. Kwik-Cheks were separate stores although Winn-Dixie sold Kwik-Chek products like Chek-brand soda.
Still the best customer service on earth!
Publix ❤
we had a Grand Union in Windsor VT along with Price Chopper, PC took over GU and moved into it's spot.......
Anyone from the Rockford Illinois area and remember Hilander and Logli. They competed with each other but in 2000 Schnucks came in from Saint Louis and bought up both of them and branded them as Schnucks.
Your prices probably went up when Schucks came in - until recently, the most expensive grocer in town. They do carry products others don't, and some exotic ones (bacon made from duck meat). They sold off almost all their pharmacies to CVS.
@@wolteraartsma1290You don't think Diebergs is more expensive than Schnucks??!! I most definitely do,I seriously can't afford to shop there ever. Their Sales aren't that Fabulous either
I remember dairy and butter being delivered by the milk man from Modern Dairy
Ours was Thiele's dairy in North Tonawanda, NY
At the 0.30 mark, the picture is of a Publix store (the striped terrazzo floor gives it away). Publix is still going strong, in it's 94th year. It is definitely NOT a forgotten grocery store.
No, there's nothing better than going to a Walmart and seeing people walking around in pajamas and pants halfway down their ass. HAHA
As a kid we always had a bunch of Swanson TV Dinners on hand in the freezer just in case we go snowed in....
So you couldn’t cook REGULAR FOOD if you got snowed in????? Makes no sense!
@@johnp139 Really ??? We lived in a small hole in the wall town in Maine, we had no food store down the street -- it was about 20 miles away. Our roads weren't plowed/sand/salted on a regular basis in the winter. In a bad snow we were on our own. In the winter we would keep frozen food on the back porch, no need for a freezer in the winter. We always had a full propane tank at the start of winter, our oven didn't need electricity to work. Have a great day......
We used to have a Winn-Dixie and a Bi-Lo but both are closed now. Now our choices here in my western NC town are Ingles, Walmart, food-lion and the latest addition of Publix. Which imo sucks. Small selection and high prices....you aren't missing anything!
Surprised you didn’t include Acme Supermarket
We used to have Safeway and Piggly Wiggly in Oklahoma.
Indiana had Gateway and Greyhound grocery stores on the late 70's
The butcher would sometimes sneak his thumb onto the scale so it looked like you had bought more than you really had. I remember that an artist had a customer with her thumb under the scale and pushed it up.. Norman Rockwell was the artist. 😅
well, it's better than the butcher who backed into his meat slicer and got a little behind in his work....
Why would a butcher do that? Did they get some kickbacks by doing this???
@@johnp139 if he was the owner proprietor than he would be able to put more money in his pocket. Back then most tradesmen were self employed.....
They also had a mini theater booth where children could sit and watch cartoons while their parents shopped.
Also Pick n Pay
Lmao, you betcha we would love a Publix here in MN
I was born in 1949, so growing up my parents shopped at the A&P.
My parents also shopped at A&P in the 1960s.
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All my life I've thought (and been told) that Piggly Wiggly was the first self service grocery store and Wikipedia confirms that.
This was good.
If you don't have them planned already, Schottenstein's (Columbus, Ohio), Kroger's Grocery Store & Fotomat. You should do one on these. ✔
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Bettendorf's with the pink plaid elephant . . .
Phoenix had Bayless, Alpha Beta, ABCO, Price Club, Cooke's Warehouse, Luckys, UTotem
Remember when we could smoke while we shopped? Stand ashtrays at the end of every aisle!
Anyone from the Chicago area remember High-Low grocery stores? They were around until the early 1970's.
Publix enjoys the comfort of existing in a world without Union members, so there's a good chance you won't see one in Minnesota any time soon. They also try to stay in areas where there is little to no snow. They have a lot of footprint to continue to grow in the Southeast before they ever consider venturing into any state above the Mason Dixon line or west of the Mississippi river..
My mom worked there in the late 50's
Chatham,Great Scott and Farmer Jack grocery stores in Michigan, long gone unfortunately
Back before the country went ghetto.
Back when society had CLASS and dressed well even going to the store! They didn't need anti-theft tags, because no one stole, like they do now!