Shopping Carts, Serpentine Store Layouts, Automated Checkouts, Cash Payments. Clarence Saunders put everything together for the first time and openned Piggly Wiggly in 1916.
Today, it’s hard to imagine buying groceries without a cart, without a cashier, without the serpentine layouts.
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The self-service concept, the machine printed receipt and numerous modern food retailing inventions that today still shape our ways of doing groceries.
Grocery stores in the pre-Piggly Wiggly days were staffed by clerks who fetched orders from behind a counter for their customers. Piggly Wiggly came from those observations — he thought he could set up a retail store and have people pick out their own merchandise, with maybe three employees.
Join us as we discover the life of Mr Saunders and his adventures.
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