How Supermarkets Took Over | Full Documentary
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- How did the supermarket come into being and where is it heading? A selection of designers, scientists, historians, and psychologists along side rarely seen archive footage, describe the emergence and evolution of the supermarket concept. An invention that has already fundamentally shaped our everyday lives, further advances in technology look set to further revolutionise how and what we consume.
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In 1970 I was 6 years old and I lived in Eldorado SP, Brazil. One of the best memories I have is going to a store on the other side of town that sold rice, beans and corn in bulk. "250 grams of lard, please" (at the time, not many people used soy oil for cooking). In the same store, alcoholic beverages and rope tobacco were sold. The smell of rolls of rope tobacco dominated the dimly lit room. Entering that store was like entering an enchanted cave. And I usually bought some mints that looked like they were made of stone and took forever to melt in my mouth. Supermarkets sell a lot more things, but they can hardly be considered as mysterious as that old store near the Ribeira River.
I have watched a lot if documentaries on Supermarkets, but this one by far is the very best one ever! Just love not only the information, but seeing all those old products and stores in color. Excellent commentary by the contributors and Narrator. Just FASCINATING! I have friends and family who work both in the USA and the UK who work in supermarkets , and am sharing this one with them.
Thanks for creating this, thoroughly informative, and entertaining too. I will be watching this one again! 😎🙌🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I don't need to watch further, I was there. OMG am I that old !
You were born in 1930? So almost 100 now? I thought my 80 yr old mother was old.
😂😂😂😂
Excellent documentary. Thank you!
So this is a story of technical innovation, societal norms changes, and consumerism's power in the U.S. It has a huge impact worldwide.
Are you running for president?
They didn't mention the subtle fiddling of prices. Such as when, on sale day, they boost the base price to make the sale price look more enticing.
Ya increase 20% then a week later put on sale 15% off.
Refrigerators really changed the buying habits of Americans by offering a way to keep meat and dairy products fresh far longer. So instead of buying perishables daily they could be bought in bulk each week and kept fresh longer. Both of my grand-mothers resisted supermarkets and preferred the individual shops while my mother and her sisters all loved the supermarkets.
2:55 "It was time consuming from both sides..." Now imagine if today's supermarkets worked that way. Funny enough I experienced something like that in 2011 in the very day that massive earthquake hit Japan. It was like 2PM so I was at work in a factory but since we had a total blackout we called it a day. On the way home I stopped at a grocery store and it was packed. And since it had no electricity (btw even cellphone signals went off) they couldn't process the cash register as usual so it was done all with a calculator and handwritten receipt. The funniest thing was, since no product in the store had a price stamped in it (naturally you had the price tag in the shelves) for each single product at each cash register, kids (probably part-time high-schoolers) would dash to the correspondent lane and shelf and check the price and come back panting. I stayed in line for like 4 hours but really couldn't complain. The store's overwhelming effort to work things out was just so heartening.
Thankfully that wasnt in canada. Kids here learn about sex and genders not math.
Americans can’t make change or do it the old fashioned way. Im 56 and learned prior to upc codes everything was taxable or not. Pencil and pad. Unfortunately most things in 🇺🇸 grocery stores include ingredients that other countries don’t allow. Even organic produce is bathed with chlorine solution. 🤮🤦♀️💩💩💩
Grow a garden
It’s enjoyable and healthier than grocery corporations
As a very small child if you wanted shoes you went to a shoe store. By yhe time i was 10 the supermakets were starting to boom. We all loved it! The convenience was the best thing. Instead of going to many stores you could go to one. Now stores are a one stop shop. Get your oil changed while you buy a outfit and a pair of shoes and food for the week. The personal side of business us gone. I remember the neighborhood market. Mom and dad ran a credit there. They paid once a month. The store owner used to give a bag of penny candy for paying the bill in full. Then usually you started a new tab
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For the most part, all the little independent shops were FAMILY businesses. Mom and Pop and other relatives, handling only the goods that they knew. Yes, the personal side is gone, as are the family-run businesses that were once the backbone of society all over the world. A marriage was not just about gaining a husband or wife, but gaining family to work the family business or sometimes to merge two family businesses together. The nature of all businesses change once you hire the first outsider as an employee who expects a regular paycheck, whereas grandpa or the mother-in-law and especially the children worked basically for free in many cases.
That 5 seconds of historic footage of the bin # 224 rolling down the rollers and conveyor to the parcel pickup was incredible. Parcel pickup was very common in Eastern North America, especially in Canada. Nowadays it's practically disappeared but the odd place here and there still offers it.
The last time I used the pickup roller bins was at Dominion at Yorkdale in North York thirty years ago. 😂
@@notpurrfect6397 wow that's something. It's completely gone from Ontario save for 1 store in Ottawa (Your Independent Grocer - that I've used in the past year) and 1 store in Pembroke (Metro franchise). There's still a few IGAs around greater Montreal with them.
@@vintagesupermarkets5210 Now we have mega markets and walmart where you need a quarter just to unlock a cart 😊
Safeway here had those beginning in 1967 and a clerk to load your groceries into your car. As an 11 year old I thought it was cool to watch the groceries take a rollercoaster ride from check stand to the delivery area outside. I wanted to hop in one of those totes and go for a ride! 🎢
Wish it was back to small stores. Id take shop assistants and fresh food, over doing it myself in stores full of junk.
Just shop the outside skipping the isles full of junk.
This is surprisingly more interesting than I expected
Some things sound exciting but boring. Then click something off the wall and not so bad.
@@shawnkelly695 100% lol I’m also pretty sure most people would find the majority of what I click on boring 🤷🏻♂️
@@Andy_Babb be surprised how many enjoy the same so called boring shows. Shows that make the mind think.
@@shawnkelly695 True, I’m into a lot of the ancient Europe/Egypt/Middle East historians - History Time and such. I do enjoy things that get me thinking. Fair point!
I miss Kmart.
Me too!!
I’d been to a Kmart probably three times ever.
@@lachutequimarche8074lol probably three of the best times of your life!!! Were you lucky to be there during a blue lite special? I don't think I ever seen one.
@@BamBamSrwe were the top two customers!
@@Phil_Melone Not sure what that is, so I guess not. I’m more of a Walmart fella
I loved the trail of evolution & it brought back alot of nostalgia.
Wow,I've become a dinosaur 🦕.
Totally enjoyable documentary from start to finish.
Bravo!!
9:00 - The 80% household vehicle ownership number seemed incredibly high so I looked it up and all I found were numbers around 60%.
In upstate NY, the story was that the supermarket drove out the Farmers Market.
People did that by supporting the wrong people. Now only commercial farms selling low quality garbage. Small farms about disapeared
My grandpa and dad had a meat locker but sold candy milk and bread like a mini 7-11
I think 🤔 its 2nd times l see 👀 this remarkable wonderfulness documentary...thank you (Get.factual)....for sharing....supermarkets expansion is continually increasing every where and controlling markets ...especially in wealthy cities ...
Some cities dont have grocery stores. Those blue cities are losing stores daily.
If you need retail business historians, you should definitely hire a physicist and a mechanical engineer.
lol ...
These 2 ladies identify as physicist & mechanical engineer
Back in my day, mid 70's, my mom would stop by the grocery store and hit the hot deli. Get a rotisserie chicken, a qt of goulash, coleslaw, and fresh dinner rolls! That was dinner in a bag that took her 10 minutes!! Something that everyone would eat, no leftovers
King Kullen is actually considered the FIRST supermarket based on 5 criteria from the Smithsonian Institute.
4:25 “collecting other shops”, i.e. Bought/Forced small shop owners out of business
Buy local push back against Klaus Schwab and the WEF
It’s really weird hearing an American voice calling a truck a lorry
As an American who has many friends in the UK and been there a few times, I find British words and slang fascinating. I will use a word in conversation here that British folk use in conversation only if it is a word that they will understand without explanation. I just love the sound of their words. "Dodgy " and "cheeky" are my favorites. 😅 "Squirty cream " is great on top hot chocolate too!😎
Or a shopping cart a trolly lol.
Welcome to AI narrator
Very interesting 😊
And the invention of the paper bag was big. Prior to bags the groceries were wrapped. We have baggers now, back in the day there were wrappers.
My parents brought groceries home in cardboard boxes.
Scary scenario when computers decide what consumers eating...
Like anything now
The color of salmon depends as much on the particular species as anything else. Brighter color does not necessarily mean that it's farmed fish or has been dyed.
Thanks so much!!
Excellent video!!
If i enter and cant find a item i want i just leave. Drives me nuts having to search.
An incredible accomplishment passing on this information. I better understand my parents, one of which, born during WW:II, who has a completely different appreciation of foods and their preparation.
Intriguing
Interesting documentary!
Thank you for your comment :)
One of the best… thanks for the efforts
All we need is money to shop
Documentário de excelente qualidade. Uma pena não estar dublado em português.
Que venham as IAs de tradução/dublagem automática para a nossa satisfação.
Um resumo rápido e direto.
“Women didn’t have jobs”!!!!!?????? Time to reframe - women were responsible for the home and family…….
They forgot to mention the advent of lab grown meat.
U 4got Horace/Jack Lynch who consolidated all A&Ps into the old Footers Cleaners n Dye works I think there were 28 A&Ps at one time in Cumberland, Maryland it was a Huge store. Then they built a new store at Greene Street then Lavale, MD then another in Cumberland, MD. A lot of people called him father of modern super mkt
Never heard a shopping cart called a trolley
Have you never been outside of North America?
Trolleys in Australia!
You must be American, we always
Called it a Trolley in Australia.
The other side of the world.
In the US a trolley car is something people road in in cities. Like the trolley cars in San Francisco.
Piggly Wiggly is the first self service grocery store in america!
The protestant spirit of innovation brought depression to the world
Didn't metioned anything 'bout Walmart or Meijer or Sams Club or Costco though and how they effect supermarkets either, Here in the Cleveland Ohio area we have Giant eagle which is the biggest Save alot, Aldi's, Heinins, as well asThe Super Wal-Mart s and Meijers that I metioned!!!!.
Did somebody notice mirrors in the veggie/fruit section?
And the warm coloured lights above the tomatoes.
There usually were.
So much theft going on nowadays, I was just saying to my husband that maybe we need to go back to having everything behind the counter. Stores are locking things up now anyway...
Interesting how the Brits become experts in what they acknowledge as an American invention. Something it took them decades (by their own admission) to adopt. Given that this is about an American situation it would be nice to call "trolleys" "carts". They also missed A&P who possibly was the real push to make this national. Also the refrigerated fast freights to move the fresh produce.
I enjoyed the history part of this doco but not the preachy ‘climate change’ bit at the end. Where is the evidence that 1/3 of the world’s population already eat insects? Actually where is the hard evidence, not modelling, for a lot of the stats the guy in the beard and glasses spouted?
Society is going the wrong way if production and services become more robotic and automated. It’s all about money- greater profits for the owners, not about more time for the consumer.
I don’t want to be eating insects thank you - real whole foods for me - so it’s Farmers Markets, food co-operatives, my veggie garden and community gardens that I source the bulk of my food from. Besides, I thought the world’s insect population was in decline? I certainly don’t get as many dead bugs on my windshield like I used to.
And when I do go to the supermarket I use the checkout not the self service so I can chat to the checkout operator, usually a high school student after school hours or a woman in school hours - these are perfect jobs for mums, kids, students, new immigrants and older women as they are usually part time and offer lots of different shifts. What jobs would they get if supermarkets go fully self service etc?
I also worry about the direction more robotics and automation will take us. What will happen to people who don't have the ability to learn a job requiring more ability, the young person looking for their first job etc.
Where can I buy those delicious locusts?
we must resist FAST CHANGE...
I have friends who lived in Europe. You shop daily at the square that has the day's freshest things just harvested. Fish, eggs veg..never knew what was for supper because you'd buy what was at the peak. The local restaurants (in France, anyway) offered the menus based on the same principle. I'd love th live in parts of Europe. Old little towns that were self sufficient . Everything you'd need right there in little clustered shops & open air market's. Sigh...
Our very own posening machine, the microwave, still alive and functional in our time.
Future food selling will never be as perfect as the garden of Eden was
The refridgerator
No carbon no trees
An interesting documentary, until the green propaganda and cricket eating started..
It was obvious
Not even one minute in, and a commercial?
I shop online for home delivery.
Liv is completely bonkers
Men worked 6 days a week 10 hours a day w no benefits or breaks
The longer you go back in time the better life was
Hitler and Stalin agree with you...
You lost me at eat insects. Yes, let's all eat unclean bugs.
Just skipped right over A&P like it didn't exist...🙄
It's a shame that this is video starts out so repetitive.
Job security?????
Not so sure about the 30s men being hypermasculine.
The girl narrator is a bit of a wacky , the young girl
All about business and money, not the people.
4 minutes in and this is such 🐮💩 I can’t bear to listen anymore.
I'm starting to hate this fake meat and evolution, unexceptionable. No insects, or bugs for me.
DEI ruins another promising project
?????
Nice historical documentary about grocery shopping. Then the global warming bug eating screwballs come out
What is with all of the professional women? Very woke.
Hearing the American narrator use your silly, ridiculous, annoying British words for things is nothing short of grating.
@get.factual could you upload a documentary about the invention of the copy machine.