Shopping at a Grocery Store in 1972
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- Footage of two older gentleman shopping at a Green Hill grocery store in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Shots around the market, a Pepsi vending machine, various magazine covers including one with Columbo on the front of TV Guide.
17 bucks for a full cart, and he lit up a smoke right there in the checkout line... those were the days
Had dozens of eggs, now 2-18XL cartons cost that much.
Yeah..people pretty much smoked everywhere. Lol
That was 50 years ago lol. It’s 120 bucks today
Lol! I'm 58 and remember people shopping and smoking in Alpha Beta
@@lisalee2885 I'm not far behind you , and I remember smoking 🚬 almost everywhere
I wish grocery stores still played music like this instead of the incessant pop music that you can't get away from no matter what store you go in.
Well they have figured out with those happy tunes or music makes people happy. Music made of frequencies, now they use frequencies to hurt people through 5g frequencies. Same principle. Sick world today. Be grateful you had these wonderful memories.
Ikr? At least when they play terrible music it helps me get in and out of the store as fast as I can and only buy what I went in for lol. For me it's doing the opposite of it's intended purpose.
My dad used to work at a supermarket like this and he could support a family of 3 kids. He then became store manager and we bought a house about 50 miles north of NYC. It was a brand new development and our neighbors were a firemen, a teacher, a salesman, and one was even a doctor. We all just lived normal lives without showing off. I lived there from 2 until 13 and I still have pleasant dreams of that home.
Great comment. That was the original concept of the American Dream. Not trying to make all your fellow citizens poor, but only trying to provide a decent life for your family.
Today, the median new home price is nearly $500,000 and the per capita income is around $35k. What a trainwreck.
@@paku302 Capitalism unrestrained ends up in feudalism!
@@JC-jk3kl Indeed it does.
Now sadly those jobs are only for high school students but grocery store workers used to be able to buy a home and car!
Such a nicer, slower time than we're in today.
@@Moon-magic109 sure & unregulated capitalism. Greed runs wild, everything must get bigger, more profits, less waste, more productivity, etc, etc.
@@nhartigan72
Aren’t you mr happy
@@nhartigan72 Unregulated? what planet are you living on??
@@mrsandmom5947 always has to be one Mr grumpy guy. Oh well to quote an old Seinfeld episode for old muudycreek. NO SOUP FOR YOU COME BACK ONE YEAR.
😂
@@nhartigan72 correct - eradicating collectivist authoritarians is every good citizens' duty
I was 5 when this was filmed. I got dragged to the grocery store almost daily with my mother. The shoppers moved more slowly then, made eye contact with each other and greeted each other. In that respect, it was a much better time and worthy of being missed.
They had feather dusters . And suckers on a string loop for a stick if you were 5
Vietnam War along with double digit-inflation & OPEC oil embargo enters the chat.
@@fluffy1931 The good parts of that era stick around in the mind longer.
@@Three_Random_Words Vietnam War enters the chat.
@@fluffy1931 I'm gonna say the same thing again enters the chat.
Back when music inside a grocery store was calming and relaxing. People looked calm back then
i miss elevator music
Well you can listen to tons of those seeburg 1000 background music records here on Yt , I usually do that when I'm stuck in traffic
People looked calm because they didn't watch political news every minute of the day. Now it's nothing but polarized angry brainwashed folks. The music has nothing to do with it.
Now everyone is on meds or high on weed and ready to snap at any time.
I live in Japan and it's like that here.
We used to cover our text books with the paper from those bags! Anyone else?
I miss the S & H green stamps
I forgot all about that trick! Thanks for the memory.
@@ejammy1906 we use to wash plastic bags, bread bags to reuse. Hang them from corner tip in closed cabinet above the counter to dry. We are so wasteful now aren't we? I'm 67.
Absolutely! I knew a fellow class mate that used to cover his books like that and it was a work or art!
Omg yes! I would ask for extra bags so they wouldn't have any creases in them.😊 My mom got a whole pot and pan set with them green stamps! Literally everyone in the country collected green stamps! Ah the good old days!
I sure did! Even in the mid 1980s we were doing this. I was born 1972, and remember paper covers even in 1978 or so.
Some of these customers were born in the late 1800's. Let that sink in for a moment. 👀
A little off topic, but my grandfather was born in 1897 & I'm only 51 years old.
@@NapkinEdStern
My great grandmother was born in 1892, we had the same birthday, and she passed in Jan 1981, and I'm 54.
@@armybeef68 That's your GREAT grandmother though. Mine was my mother's father. My great grandfather was born in 1841.
.... agreed.... my paternal grandmother was born March, 1897.... was alive, well and still WORKING in 1972.... as for me.... I was three....
The last witness to Lincoln's assassination was interviewed on TV in the fifties. Let that sink in.
That guy in the hat looking at the can of beans thinking - There is no way I'm payin' 17 cents for that, no way.
😂😂
Lmfao
He was also checking prices..back then they were marked with an ink stamp, sometimes the older ones on the shelf were stamped a cheaper price. No bar codes.
@@brianeaton3734 Yes, I know........he was looking at the inked stamp that said .17 cents.....
I was thinking that too. lol
If you were around back then , even if just a kid , you know we’re the lucky ones .
This is the closest thing to time traveling. I love watching these. Thank you.
Same. The music, the clothes, the way the products look… i can watch these for hours and just think about everyone and how they all dealt with similar, but different lives than we today. No internet must of been a weird time.
@@Hiiamsamm a much better time, people were free and not tracked and self reliant.
I was 12 in 1972 and I remember the sight, sounds and unique smell of a grocery store like yesterday. Grocery stores were much smaller than today's stores.
A wonderful world without rap music
@@SSNESS Hell's YEAH!!!
The "lay down freezers" are a thing of the past !
The grocery stores used to be easy to shop in. Often there was assistance getting groceries outside. I remember the song that's playing. I miss Muzak when I find myself trying to cover my ears just to get through the store and it's horrible, loud "music." I remember when the cigarette cartons were right on the end by the cashiers. They were around $5 a carton at that time. I remember mostly women clerks and shoppers, however.
@@SSNESSAgreed 👍
The best part about this video is nobody is walking around staring at or talking on a phone.
Why do you care so much about people staring at a phone, you weirdo?
@@agoo7581 I’ve said it’s a given on any old video from about pre-2000 you see the same two comments repeated:
1. Nobody looking at their phones
2. No fat people
@@oldradiosnphonographs Fat people, you can blame high fructose corn syrup.
yet, here you are, making this comment on your phone.
@@scottkalinowski7185 I think the meaning behind that is that people aren’t very nice to each other these days. There is always someone scanning comments looking to leave a rude reply to someone’s comment.
Interesting to see the differences in 1972:
- no plastic bags
- manual register
- no credit or debit cards
- cash or check only
- no candy or gum at register
- no barcode scanner
- separate scale to weigh produce
- smoking in store
- Open cigarette inventory (Cigarette Department at 7:13)
USED TO WORK AT A MARKET HERE IN CT IN 1987 FIRST JOB
3.25 HR
MANUAL REGISTERS TOO
NOW ITS AHOLE CUSTOMERS NOW
A lot of things that are in plastic containers now were in glass and metal containers then.
@@oldradiosnphonographs Metal I can get behind, but glass containers are an accident waiting to happen
@@dtxspeaks268 apparently soda was in 2 liter glass bottles in the 70s. That musta been hella awkward if someone broke one of those in the store.
@@oldradiosnphonographs it's awkward as hell when somebody breaks a wine or beer bottle or light bulb in a store lol. Can't imagine something as mundane as soda
The guy filming it is a time traveler, knowing exactly what to show us here in 2023.
LOL that would be awesome, for sure!
This makes me so sad. I miss those days. Everyone looked and acted so normal. Such a different time.
Only a small little thing in Viet Nam going on. It wasn’t a perfect time.
@@jimklipper6022 No one said “perfect”.
@@jimklipper6022 One little thing in today's "society", troubles are equal to Vietnam x Exponentially worse...Vietnam would be over in 3yrs...Your World War(s) are only ramping up
Yes I Remember Those Different Times I Miss Them Too
For me, I noticed things changing for the worse in 1995....
I was 10 years old when this was filmed and remember it like it was yesterday. All those cigarettes out on display, was such an ordinary thing! My mom used to send me to the market with a shopping list that included a couple packs of Winstons for my old man, I was never questioned. All soda pop came in glass bottles, a giant bag of potato chips was 49 cents and a 2 pack of Hostess Cupcakes was 25 cents. 🙂
Nothing wrong with that ciggs shouldn't be treated so bad
In 1972 the minimum wage in my state was $1.60.
I was 5
Me too I was 11! I loved it ❤
Did you remember to return the empty bottles to get your deposit$ back?
I would pay $1,000 to be able to walk around that store for 20 minutes.
Would you then off yourself in the market in style?
people collect old cereal boxes like Quisp and Quake . If you could snatch a dozen of them and come back to the future- you'd make your $1000.00 back EASY (probably triple it too !)
I would too! Then I would look at cars and records.
ah you missed it by 8 years. i had a store in my town that hadn't been renovated in decades. the registers only recently then. still ran the tapes. the old manager retired and sold it
Only if that would buy me a one way ticket to the '70s.
Since this was filmed many things have changed. Most notably, sociopaths have seized control.
Yes gee-who-ish psychopaths stole the election.
They already were in control. It was just far too hidden from the public. Nixon was president then. I wasn't even a year old. Problems existed. Everyone looked controlled more than today. At least they talked to each other more, and were polite.
Yes. Now we are like at Noah's time.
Jesus is coming very soon.
Are you ready?
They just dropped the mask at some point….
And Yuval Noah Harari.
Filmed in March 1972 because when the guy was checking out I can just make out the TV guide from March 25, 1972 with Peter Falk on the cover. And the Family Circle magazine is the April 1972 edition.
Amazing eye catch. Also, Woman's Day magazine April 1972 edition sits at the bottom.
Peter charmed us with his Columbo character, my dad's favorite show.
I love these little details.
Poor guy likely ain’t with us now…
That was a few days before my 4th birthday! What a different world! While I am nostalgic for the past and friends and relatives who are no longer with us, there was this War in Vietnam going on and it wasn't going well. 51 years later and I think the country, if not the rest of the world is in a worse place, simply because people have lost all sense of civility and the concept of democracy.
1$ for a steak. Now I’m nostalgic for a time I didn’t even exist
$1 in 1972 is equivalent to $7.47 today.
@@pippishortstocking7913 And I could not afford steak back then.
I was making $1.25 hour...farm work: Hoeing/chopping cotton, cutting broom-corn, fixing fence, etc. Steak was a far off dream. Hog and chicken I could afford, same as today.
@@pippishortstocking7913 1 dollar was 200 bucks
Ah 1972, when you could go to elementary school and not worry about getting your head blown off and road rage was two people honking at each other.
Yes because the government wasn't after our guns back then. They even had GUN HOW TO USE CLASSES in schools and nobody ever got shot....imagine that.
When the government wants more power over the people they use a formula called Problem Reaction Solution. They create a problem (like school shootings), they get the desired outrage of the public ("oh we need to get rid of guns to save the children") they then implement their preplanned agenda of DISARMING LAW ABIDING AMERICANS. After that, they do exactly what ever government in past history has done to their people after they disarm them: GENOCIDE.
Lmfao
And Elvis was still alive and Memphis wasn't a war zone
Yup and no crazy topless women with blue hair crying sexism.
the younger cashier here is now as old as the gentlemen he was serving. life is fast.
So true, kids don't know, and can't I guess til it suddenly happens to them, and the years start to fly by instead of crawl like when they were kids
Older I'm sure. That old guy was probably at least 61 then. I was 4 back in 72 and I'll be 55 this july
I never understood when people meant, "life is fast," until i hit my 40's. Perception of time is really fascinating to me.
@@Haddley333 It hit me when I was 29. I realized that a whole decade as an adult was a blur so I'm as good as dead. 🤷♂️
Those two old timers are long gone
Blows my mind how he lit up a cigarette in the check out line. And look at that register...it looks ancient. So cool how everything use to be. I was 4 years old in 1972. People use to never be in a rush back then. Today if you take out your credit too slowly people have daggers' in their eyes.
Same I was 4 I don’t remember this time much but I believe its better than today
People smoked in Hospitals back then,lol
Well, at least people aren't smoking in the stores anymore, so that's a vast improvement.
Was it a Pall Mall? Non-filters are supposed to be healthier on the lungs.
@ambienthangout Vast improvement? No. Only to little wimps that want to control other people. I'm not even a smoker, and I can't stand your non-smoking bs.
Can we get zapped back there! I was 11 years old, I want to be back there, I hate this world now....
If everyone who wants to go back could go back, they would soon make it suck as bad as it does now.
@@MrTruckerf No because "they" were not in control back then. Not to the degree "they" are now. We were a truly FREE AMERICA back then.
"America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, sell it off. We will turn it into the world's largest welfare state." ~Netanyahu
"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" - Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” Gutle Schnapner Rothschild
"Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. Let us falsify the scales by deceit, That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes-Even sell the chaff with the wheat..."Amos 8:5-7
"The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail." Deuteronomy 28:43-44 The "stranger among us" is the FED aka Rothschilds aka Wroth Children of Cain/Esau/Synagogue of Satan-Rev 2:9 and 3:9
They were expelled from more than 109 countries in the past, 359 times for a reason.
That’s funny you were 11!
So was I!
1961, Baby!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I’m trying to invent a Time Machine we all can go back seems like a way better time right trying to
I was 7
Also notice the lack of plastic packaging back then. Everything was in glass jars, glass bottles, tin/aluminum cans and paper boxes
I noticed that with the potatoes ... in that heavy paper bag with the net window ... vs. now they're ALL in plastic bags. At first, I didn't know if it was 1970s cat litter or potatoes.
They knew that the chemicals in plastics would harm us. Now they want to harm us.
Gas was cheap to haul things.
@@clapolla I thought maybe it was a bag of charcoal at first
I’m so tired of all the plastic-it’s killing the planet!
You know the thing that shocks me the most, is that men actually shopped, in my family, grandma did everything.
Some men were single.
No 500-lb. idiots racing around on motorized carts, crowds blocking isles or drugged-out spaceshots ripping up the shelves. The cashiers spoke English and could count change.
Wouldn't mind going back to that time; I guess I just didn't appreciate it then. Hard to believe it was more than half a century ago.
don't forget no green haired nose ringed woman with tattoos.......
Watching this seeing how different things used to be makes me feel like we're getting screwed over today.
I hear you 😢😢
If only you knew how badly we are getting screwed over.....if only everyone knew, the govt and globalists would all be swinging by the necks from the nearest bridges and lamp posts......
Fact is we are getting screwed over big time.
Illegals and globalization are the two biggest factors…the country was 88% white in 1970 according to the census…all of Western European work ethic and values
@@denisefarmer366 Exactly.
Totally lived in a different world back then, I am fortunate to have lived in it and remember it. Good stuff!
When people didn't look like they just rolled out of bed to go grocery shopping!
When people cared about their appearance. I am 31 and I make every effort to make sure I look cleaned up and spiffy to go out in public. Idiots half my age walking with their ass hanging out of their underwear and pants on their knees or smelling like drugs, or wearing clothes so food stained that looked like they fed a gorilla with...sickening.
How about you don't be such a wash woman? You don't everyones story.
@@agoo7581 I DONT EVERYONES STORY BUT MY OWN I DO
The problem now is that even dressing in a business casual manner gives a creepy vibe.
@@RyanCoomer no and that's true but the dollar tree has soap deo shampoo
The sound of the cash register took me back 50 years😊
YES,me too.
The guy bagging groceries paid for a house, a car and raised four kids with the money from that job.
Yup!
Not true
@@judyl.761 It is true in fact, were you there?
@@montyrayza7220 Yep, I was
IDK about all that, but maybe the store manager did.
I wasn't even born I was born in 1974 but one of my brothers was born in 1972. Everything look so calm at the supermarket nothing like 2023. Rest in peace to the old folks with the shopping cars
The vibe was pretty much the same in the 80s except maybe no smoking and the cash registers got more modern.
Wow, this takes me back to my past, I was born in 64'. People smoking in public, the cashier wearing a shirt and tie. The sounds in the store, bells on the cash register, paper bags, etc.
Different kind of muzak playing in the background, all instrumentals.
i wonder when it all changed. maybe the 80s or 90s.
another 64 baby here :)
I grew up in a small town then. We had a penny candy store(can taste the wax on the tiny soda candy) and a made from scratch Ice Cream + soda jerk shop.
@@NateTheGnat I'm thinking it was more like the 1980s when it all changed. In the 1980s a grocery store trip would look similar to going to your local supermarket now. I was a cashier in the mid 1980s and the cash register was electronic and the first one I ever saw too. Most mothers were no longer housewives so grocery shopping was no longer so friendly . Everybody in a hurry. Get in and get out.
I was born in 1989, 17 years before this but even as a small child in the early to mid 90s, going to the supermarket was such a fun adventure! I used to love going to Wegmans with my mom, but I’ve barely gone over the last few years. Now I’m an Aldi shopper. This video is AMAZING! The prices, the clothes, the CIGARETTE department … 😲TH-cam is the closest thing to a Time Machine that we’ll ever have.
You mean 17 years after not before 😂
I wish I could go back in time with my money now and I'd be like," The entire Grocery Store is on me, folks!" Enjoy!
@SPLΔSIVΞ You think people with more than $5 are rare?
they would look at your money and say it was counterfeit, since it was probably printed after 1972. and your cards wouldn't work either. you'd have to go work at the store to make money and you'd earn maybe 10 dollars a day.
@@NateTheGnat John Tudor had that same problem.
But they'd look at the new money and be like : "What is this?! We don't accept these here sir"
What did he pull out of his pocket @5:21? Smart phone?
This channels hands down one of the best to come to if you're nostalgic or truly interested in how the past really was.
Gosh...thanks Rob!! 😀
@@vampirerobot yw brother
@@vampirerobot Is there an explanation of who the original documentarian was? This is such an interesting collection. How did it get to be assembled in the first place? Whoever did the original filming did us all a favor!
@@vampirerobot Dude this is a bot
This video from 1972 still has more clarity than some surveillance video captured in 2023.
The TH-cam algorithm somehow brought me here but it was well worth it. It's crazy to think that even if someone was only 27 in this video they'd already be older than the average life expectancy in the United States right now. The two older gentleman probably have been gone for 30 or 35 years now. I'm an 80's baby but do remember a slightly more relaxed time when I was younger. I cannot even stand going shopping unless it's first thing in the morning or a little before closing.
This truly brings me back to a time when the world was different! It's crazy how life is just so different. No masks no TikTok no stress life was good when this back then
Uh, no one wears masks. It’s time to move on.
@@EmilyTienne u sure? where do u live?
@@EmilyTiennetell that to the stupid idiots who still insist on wearing one alone in their cars or walking outside with nobody around. 🙄
Did anyone sit underneath the cart like me and my brother? In the 80s Los Angeles had a grocery store called Alpha Beta and me and my brother both fit under the cart and we would stay there the whole shopping trip. Made it easy for my mom.
Me too with my sisters! Good ol' Alpha Beta in Los Angeles! I feel grateful to have grown up in LA in the 70s & 80s!
Alan Hamell
I started in the grocery business in 1969, retired in 2012, Oh the stories i could tell.
My ex and his parents all worked grocery stores...I know what you mean about The Stories 😂😂😂
tell em
Nice retirement if you were union the entire time.
Tell me please! 🥺
🤭🩷🩵
you started in my grandparents childhood and ended in my childhood 🤯
The music in the store is so much better than today.
I'm amazed at how many products were offered ...it was a great Era. Affordable living and happy people. I enjoy the cash register most!!!
I was eight years old when this was filmed, old enough to remember when adults actually looked like adults......they didn't live in a wishful state of perpetual adolescence like today's young people do. When we were kids, we could hardly wait to be "grown-up". 😃
@spirals 73 Been there. Silly of me. (adults dressing like teens )
But these are OLDER adults; do not see many "young people" in this clip.
I was born in 71. I am an eyewitness that back then people dressed decent and no one would be caught dead wearing pajama bottoms out to the store. Today, we have a bunch of idiots running around. It's just sad. I wish I could go back in time.
My Generation X was probably the one fuck up today's young people.
Yeah, but being a "young" person before the 1980's really had no perks. My parents couldn't wait to get away from their parents. From a young age, people knew life would be better as an adult. Since the 80's or so, kids have had it pretty easy with awesome toys, games, TV, and Internet at their disposal.
😭😭😭 My heart aches for these times ...I was 4 years old when this was made but store were like this all thru the 70s. I miss this so much ....
Me too
@@henrystowe6217 I guess we are just old fashioned Henry ...Do you remember the lil neighborhood corner markets ? Such sweet times ...I miss those too...
This was 4 years before I was born. Life seemed much more simple back then. The cashiers actually had to know math and they were respectful and well dressed. Groceries were a lot cheaper. I bought 4 items a few days ago and spent $60! I can’t believe there’s cashiers and a bagger. Now you have to do everything yourself without the paycheck.
Like a totally different country
And the cashiers had to enter everything manually. Now they just scan. Should be easier, but they look more miserable
The grocery store I go to has a bagger, and takes to the pickup when I'm done, plus puts the groceries in the cab. Butchers in the back working cutting/packaging meat.
Someone on the floor always helping customers find stuff.
Small Mom & Pop store.
Same for me. My sister born in 72. I’m a bicentennial baby too!
watching this made me tear up a little,..such a different time than today,..everything seemed slower,..I loved see the Brach's candy,..that was my grandmothers favorite
My grand parents would buy the gold butter brachs candy, they were really good.
Listen to the nice music they used to play in stores. This is what they took from us.
Now it's that vapid screaming bimbo crap.
I agree, I can't stand the rap music or whatever it's called they play in stores and restaurants now.
@Karla E. You mean inferior music.
I was telling my neighbors about how it used to be. 10 cents for can of biscuits. 25 cent can goods. 99 cent 2 liter coke cola. Name brand stuff, not generic. And let us not forget 50 cent per gallon gas. I had job at neighborhood Shellmart#12, and mind you, you earned that $3.15 per hour.
Remember the self-serve Brach Candy stations they used to have in Gro. Stores in the '70s
I sure do, filled up many a bag at those
Sears and Roebuck had one too...I used to always get the chocolate drop stars. Delicious.
Back when they treated
You like a customer
It’s so cool how the music that plays in public tends to be 1-2 generations behind, even back then.
I’m 22 and a lot of the music I used to hear out in public was from the 70’s/80’s. For my parents? The 40’s/50’s (just like this video.)
It’s so weird to think that the music a lot of us got used to hearing will slowly fade out like the big band/swing/jazz did. I’ve already noticed it’s becoming less common to hear music from the 70’s/80’s out in the wild- a lot of it is from the 90’s and 00’s (as the late GenX/millennials take over)
I love videos like this because they have so many little details (like the music) that usually get skipped over in movies and books- seeing things as they really were back then is pretty surreal! This channel is such a valuable resource for those interested in the past
I was 7 years old and still remember the sounds the big clunky register made and the smell of the paper bags. The baggers were skilled at placing your items in the tall paper bags and were always careful to put the fragile items on top. Such a quiet peaceful time when no one was angry or in a rush. Those days are gone forever.
Thank you! ( former bagger). How about the smell of freshly ground coffee... coffee beans were ground at checkout. A&P did this. It was called 8-oclock coffee?
@@jeffgarmon1 I remember A&P. There was one in Indianapolis.
Only if you choose them gone
A few years ago, I was buying just a hot rotisserie chicken and half a gallon of ice cream. The bagger had placed the ice cream on the top of hot chicken. He was probably still in a junior or senior high school because it was Saturday. I asked him to re-pack the items in two separate bags because the i-cream and chicken will ruin each other... It was probably like 10 years ago, but I am l smiling while typing it. 😂
Paper bags and paper straws have been transplanted from the 1970s to today's Vermont.
That cash register brought back memories of my first job, in high school, in 1978-79. I worked in an older grocery store. The newer stores had more modern registers. I loved being a grocery store cashier.
That cash register was built to last. No planned obsolescence there!
How did you ring stuff up without scanning? He just presses buttons and i have no idea what is going on lol
I wonder how many cashiers today would say they love their jobs? And all they have to do is scan, not manually enter everything. But they probably have a lot more crazy people to deal with today, depending on where they work
@@Smokesuyou typed in the price that was labeled on the item. They use to use a sticker gun to attach all the prices.
@@Smokesushows @ 5:41
I was 12 then..... in 1976 when I was 16 I became a bagboy at the local supermarket in Lorain, Ohio. It was a fun job. My only beef was going out into the cold snow to get more carts from the parking lot. Had to round them all up and bring them into the store. Took us nearly 5 minutes just to put on our heavy snow boots, coats, and gloves etc. I burned off a whole lot of calories, and was in great shape that's for sure...lol. That job bless me so much. I was quickly able to buy my first car. A 1965 Chevy Impala Convertible. Kids didn't mind working hard in those days. When I graduated in 1978 I had been working there for two years already and had a decent salary. I loved the 70's..... we were so free back then.....
A time when cashiers actually had to use mathematics.
I've ran into kids that couldn't give back the correct change even when machine already does it for them.
@@preposterous23sad😢
Once the clerk told me the power was out and they could give change. I said, How do you think we did it before computers? I may as well asked her to compute Pi to the 9th digit !
I remember going to one supermarket that the cashiers memorized the prices, which I thought was amazing.
@@preposterous23 Yeah, I had this situation, when I gave young sale clerk a nickel, so she would give a dime for a change instead of nickel. She looked at me as I was out of this world.
I think it's safe to say that these two men shopping have "shuffled off this mortal coil."
Yeah. They were probably born in the 1910s or 1920s at the latest.
Either that or they shuffled off to Buffalo.
@@Thomas-yr9ln More like Detroit.
@@Thomas-yr9ln More like Detroit.
I'd say that old timer with the glasses might have served in the great war. He looks to be in his early 70s at the time.
These Films are very relaxing! If TH-cam would have existed back in 1972 who knows the type of vloggers shopping in those times we could have seen now! I remember going to the supermarket in the 80s and saw similar shipping experiences like this video. Nowadays, times are so different, you can never see a time capsule such as this one!
So cool to see these time capsules. I was born in 1965 I vividly remember going to the local town A&P with my parents in the early 70's. Every time I grind up some eight O clock coffees that wonderful smell transports me back.
I still remember that smell of the fresh ground coffee!
If they ever invent a time machine I want to volunteer.... imagine all the great rock bands you'll get to see! 1972 man!
I'd like to go back to the mid-late 50s
imagine you could get drafted to Vietnam......smmfh
My time machine would start in 1965 and end before October 1973. Lather rinse repeat
@@Johndoe345-k2d imagine not. Most weren't
I guess one of the biggest challenges would be not to spill the beans on whatever future knowledge you already may possess! That could spell disaster!
I was a baby in 1972,I still can relate to calmer Grocery Stores like this when I was 5 & so on.
Even in the 80’s Grocery Stores were more hassle free then they are today.
Thanks for posting this video!
I was 1 year old at this video taping. I remember the best time of my life was in the 70s and 80s going to the grocery store with mom.
A time when people had manners. Took their time, gave space and didn't mouth off to the tellers.
Scoot ahead to 2023...
Its all about smoking indoors, you bring that back and its all going to be perfect.
@@vbrook04 huh?
And still no flying cars
@@faithfultotheend5202 🤣
Agreed. I am a cashier. The customers are a nightmare.
My Goodness! 1972. That was the year the Oakland A's took the series from Cincinnati! I was 10 years old. I was reading comics that cost 15 -20 cents each! Pinball machines were one game for a dime and 3 games for a quarter. Gas was 25-30 cents a gallon. What a time that was!
I miss being a kid in the late 60's and throughout the 70's
😅 Pinball machines !!! I use to love playing those, and I never had enough quarters to keep playing. What happened to them ? I haven't seen a pinball machine in over 35 years.
If I lit up a cigarette today while waiting in the checkout line, Karen would throw a wine bottle at me! 😂
LOL!!!! she sure would!!
To be fair the majority of the detrimental effects of second hand smoke was still being covered up back then. I do agree about the self-righteous physical response you'd get from a lot of certain types these days though.
As a child of late 60"s and all throughout the 70"s I can remember going to grocery store with mom can remember on Friday if we went to fedmart with mom sometimes we would get a treat after shopping. To stop in the little restaurant area and have something like a doughnut or something similar. It was a big treat for us. Also if I stayed the night on Thursday during the summer. I would get to go on Friday morning with my Grandpa he did the weekly shopping for grandma and him. It was neat to get up early on Friday morning have breakfast of fruitloops this was in 1973 until 77 can remember Grandpa staring up the truck and he and I would go to food basket around 8:30 because they did not open until 9 am. So we would be the only vehicle in the parking lot. Well just a little before 9 you would see one of the employees unlock the door and turn on the lights and we would go in Grandpa was sometimes the only customer in the store. These were when things like grocery stores close at 9 pm or other stores would be closed on Sunday it was different times. I will say glad I had the privilege of going with Grandpa and although he has been gone since 1977 I can still have very clear memories of being with him riding in his truck going to Food basket
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Very sweet memory. We grew up in California and my grandparents in Burbank, CA. Hughes market was THE store. Loved going there with them. My brother caught on to the returning of the shopping carts for the 25 cent ticket 😂😂HE made a lot and helped other shoppers. I miss KMart so much. Broadway too!
@@lisalee2885 oh mom was a regular shopper of k mart. I can remember many times the icee machine running and sometimes if we were good in the store mom would takes us to get a treat at the restaurant in the back of store I can remember many times standing still in boys department so mom could hold pants up to me to check if length was the same. I remember one night my sister and I were at k mart with mom and they were about to close the store and I thought WOW were out really late. Of course this was 1974 and at that time 9 pm was late. Lol. Mom didn't go to Broadway. But can remember sears was a staple for mom and dad .it's a little sad to think how many stores from 60"s and 70"s are just a distant memory.
@@lisalee2885 Did Burbank have a GEMCO store??
@@747heavyboeing3 hi..it wasn't in Burbank. I think it was in Vannuys or Northridge 😁
Wow! The old S&H Green stamp machine above the cash register sure brought back great memories! Kids today will never know the pleasure of saving up books all year long to buy Christmas gifts at the Green stamp store. Well, that's what mom and dad did with them anyway.
I think they've been replaced in large part now by credit card or supermarket reward points. My regular supermarket gives rewards in fuel points, which can save users up to $1 per gallon for a fill-up.
@@jehobden I agree, I use the points from Fryes food store in Phoenix to get diesel or gas.
But the thing about using the rewards points they are useless unless you make another purchase even if it’s at a discounted price.
Marketing at its best!! Lol
My parents used S&H green stamps to buy my baby bassinet along with many other things. I can still remember when I was little watching Mom & Dad pasting green stamps in the booklets.
Those days are long gone! Thank you for posting this video! Memories is all we have now.
When you didn't have 50 different flavors of pop tarts and 50 different variations of chips. Lol
And the one's you did have were MUCH better than all of the high fructose syrup/chemical filled/diabetes causing crap of today. Back then it was just 3 or 4 ingredients, cane sugar, flour, fruit filling.
@@reesedaniel5835 GMO didn't start until 1975, and on a small scale for awhile. Prior to that, we had real food with no high fructose syrup and so many chemicals. I'm sure there were some chemicals but not anywhere near what we are forced to consume today....if we have to eat store bought poison, oops, food.
Today when you go to foodstore most people are heavy. Check out their carts full of junk food
Ah... shopping with Muzak 🛒...actually relaxing. Not like in my local Shaw's today, where my ears got blasted w/today's garbage "music" at full volume (so loud you can't hear yourself think- they do that so you won't notice how much the prices went up from just DAYS ago.)
I hated the MUZAK. It wasn't until around 1990 that I first heard Rock in a grocery store.
👍👍 I 100% agree with you. Back then the music was calm, usually at a decent volume. Today, the garbage they call music is blasted so loudly I can't think or even remember what items I need to buy. It's so loud I can't wait to get out of there.
That's not muzak. That's big band orchestra
@@lovinlife6630 I agree. What they call music today is absolute crap. I'd rather listen to a bunch of coyotes howling in the woods.....
I work in a grocery store and 95% of the music is straight trash. I'd prefer Muzak to most of our crap.
Yup was born in 1965 and went shopping with Mama sat right up front in the 🛒 as a toddler she bought a whole lot of groceries back then for $25-$30 for a family of 6 . Wished we can bring those days back again 🌷💛
It sure reminds me of the grocery market in my neighborhood in NYC that closed because of rent hike. I cried for months and still get choked up thinking about it. It played great music. Although they have other locations, the original one was one of a kind and felt like home. There is one other store that looks a lot like this one in the video and I hope it stays open forever. My heart can't take another original loss. It's hard enough so many mom an pop stores, where the owners knew you, are now gone.
I was 18 and already two years into my grocery career when this was filmed. I had just progressed from bagger to checker/stocker. We all had the old Garvey price markers hanging like tails on our belts and our thumbs were blue from the ink. I used to call the chore of sweeping "wiping butts" because the floor was littered with cigarette butts.
I remember I worked at a grocery store at age 14.
That would never be allowed today. Then my second job at age 16 at the local airport! It sure beat flipping burgers.
Oh, I forgot, the store workers all dressed up every day like they were all managers. Nice pants, botton shirts, ties.
This is great. Those cash registers, classic, I love it !
I was 11 years old in 1972, my mom would fill 2 grocery carts full and it cost my mom around $100. Now for $100 you’ll get a third of a grocery cart!
Funny you said that. Parents had 7 kids. Filled 2 grocery carts. And it usually always came to $100!!! And people would say to my parents, "How do you afford that?"
"Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. Let us falsify the scales by deceit, That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes-Even sell the chaff with the wheat..."Amos 8:5-7
"The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail." Deuteronomy 28:43-44 The "stranger among us" is the FED aka Rothschilds aka Wroth Children of Cain/Esau/Synagogue of Satan-Rev 2:9 and 3:9
in todays dollars $100 is nearly $700 dollars relative to inflation.
That's not comparing things correctly. Else, in 1972 you could've said how ridiculously expensive it was compared to 1923 prices. Adjusted for inflation, that $100 in 1972 is $750 today. I can tell you that $750 in groceries at Costco is way more than 2 grocery carts worth. In fact, i could probably get way more than 2 carts at Whole Foods.
Bring back those prices......
One of the best channels on TH-cam. Thank you for the memories 😊
Yeah, and bring back those old salaries, too.
@@JLajoslol
This is when cashiers had to really work they had to look at the prices and then enter it on register one by one and every register had a bagger and they push the cart to your car and put the groceries in you trunk for you and usually get tipped 50 cents and they were happy .
I remember when registers converted from inputting prices to scanning barcodes. No need to price every product anymore with the machine that output stickers. It did speed up the lines a great deal and tracked inventory. I worked at a grocery store in the 90's and we still helped customers to their cars if they requested it.
@@CoffeeStopAmbience I bet those folks complained about those prices too!😂
It was also the time when cashiers had to pay for any shortages on their cash drawers out of their pay too.
@@tartgreenapple They did. People were only making $5-6 for a full time job in most places back then.
@@milfordcivic6755 I worked for the Canadian government as a clerk, for a year, $1.60 and hour in 71. Union job.
It is strange to look back how most Grocery stores put everything out . even cigarettes there was more trust and respect .
Shoot! If you would have shoplifted, you would be banned from the store and everyone would know about it. Plus, you would be arrested and go to jail.
And fear of consequences for shoplifting
And no rubbers in the check out line for the kids to see “hey mommy whats that for”
I would love to go back to this era but I definitely don’t miss the smoking indoors, everywhere
I’m with you! I was a little kid then, I’d go back for everything except the crazy gross smoking everywhere!
Grocery shopping now is much different than back then. Was not born yet in early 1972 yet, however I can definitely see the difference.
Must have been men’s night at that store lol. Love the sound of those old cash registers, brings back memories!
LOL😅😅😅
Watching this makes me remember when I wanted to run home after school and see what I can invent or play with my neighborhood friends.
4:14.... I think the grocery bill was $17.00 !! Same as Costco today for ANY 2 items !! Wonderful
It’s 50 years ago lol. It’s 120 today
That’s great to watch!! Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching!
wow seems like back then when you made a living you could actually live
My husband and I got married in 1972. We spent $49 and at the time it was a humongous amount of groceries.
relative to inflation $49 bucks in 72 is about $350 in 2023 dollars.
@@markbajek2541 Less under Trump than Biden, BTW.
Back when you could light one up before you get to your car. A guy needed a smoke
after the sticker shock of $23.00 for groceries!
That $23 is $135 today.
The cash register is awesome! Around this time, I used to work at a well known store in Ann Arbor called Goodyear's. It had a lot of imports and was pretty upscale. It had been founded by German immigrants. It also was outfitted with pneumatic tubes from every department that led to the central office area. The sales person would put the money, or credit request in the container and then whoosh it up to me, in the office area. I would make change from the tray where the containers landed, and send the money back to them in the container. There were approximately 20 of these pneumatic tubes, and sometimes, the containers would come out and bounce off unto the floor. Especially during the holiday season when it was very busy. I also had to go look up their credit account before I could approve their credit purchase. And also, I would get notes from the sales people asking for an aspirin, or other requests/communications. I miss the simplicity of that system, for sure.
Everybody wore a hat//everyone smoked//nobody wore their seatbelt ❗ I love it ❗😂🤣
We were free back then.
The steak in video is 89.00 today.
Brings back memories of shopping with my grandfather. He took forever! God bless him, he'd eat a bag of cookies before even getting up to the register! I miss you Pop-pop!
I was 14 at the time. I forgot about those big half-gallon cans of juice that you needed a can opener for. The Libbys label had just been changed about that time. Anybody remember the jingle: “When it says Libbys Libbys Libbys on the label label label, you will like it, like it, like it on your table table table”? In the early 70’s my favorite songs were the Chi lites’ “Oh, Girl” and “O-o-h Child” by the Five Stairsteps. Still love that music! ❤👋🏻
An entire cigarette section and it wasn't even locked. Wow
I was 7 or 8 years old depending when that was filmed (born middle of the year). The biggest thing I miss? S&H Green Stamps! There was nothing like seeing the cashier dial up the number of stamps your mom would be getting and handing them to you. And then running home to paste them in the book! ❤ Now if only we could all decide on the sewing machine or the rowboat 😂 (points if you get that reference! 😉)
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and you still are 7-8 years old in your 💩 head or less
This was filmed in mid-to-late-March 1972, as the TV GUIDE for sale was dated Mar. 25.
Yes, I wish my family had as many trading stamps as the Bradys did. I'd have wanted the color tv (which they ended up getting) more than the rowboat or sewing machine.
I miss the 70's it didn't cost much back then to make a living you could buy a lot of Grocery for not much money everything thing was cheaper what a shame its not like that now so sad
Well you forget that we had inflation back in the 70s and an energy crises.
Minimum wage in 1972 was $ 1.60.
My parents were complaining about prices back then, even. Including gas!
@@catholicfaithofmine2664 Ur right it wasn't all peaches and cream, energy crises,vietnam watergate etc but it was a lot less chaotic back then on the street level for lack of a better way to put it
Back then, someone even bagged up your groceries and placed them in your car for you.
That was a nice blast from the past. Back in the day when people focused on what they were doing and on each other instead of always being on a phone.
Anybody over 72 in the store was born in the 1800s.
And technically the 19th century included 1900.
I was born in 1954 so I am not that old but I knew and talked with a lot of people born in the 1800s, all my grandparents included.