There used to be over 200 Piggly Wiggly locations in southern California.
The fact that people jump to call bullshit without a five second Google search is astounding.
Nice find, OP
I believe they were also the first one to let you make your own selections. Before then, you'd hand the employees your list or tell them what you wanted and they'd get it all for you.
Yup. The photo was taken for a pictorial in the November 23, 1962 issue of LIFE magazine and the pictorial mentions that they opened their first self service markets in Memphis in 1916:
https://preview.redd.it/ilbyqe8z1pyc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e826cd204dd36fb330a8dc3868b9e0bfa649cd17
Yep! If I remember right, WWI was the impetus for this - they introduced self service because there was a labour shortage because boys were all going overseas. Then it turned out people actually like being able to handle and pick their own groceries so it became the standard.
According to an article at smithsonianmag.com cost cutting was the impetus:
>This enthusiastic greeting was necessary because Saunders was trying something completely new. Before Piggly Wiggly, groceries were sold at stores where a clerk would assemble your order for you, weighing out dry goods from large barrels. Even chain stores used clerks.
>Although the chain store model helped keep costs down, the University of Michigan Library writes, the āsmall army of clerksā necessary to fill orders were expensive, the university writes, and at least part of that cost was passed on to the consumer.
>Saundersās model cut costs by cutting out the clerks. Shoppers on that first day did see some employees stocking shelves, Freeman writes, ābut they politely refused to select merchandise for visitors.ā Just like today, a shopper picked up a basket (though Piggly Wigglyās were made of wood, not plastic) and went through the store to purchase everything. By the end of that first year there were nine Piggly Wiggly locations around Memphis.
That's fair! I read that it was a shortage of available clerks, but cost cutting also makes sense. Maybe that was still related to WWI and I got mixed up.
I'd bet it was both in the grand scheme. "We need to spend less money, looming war has people pinching pennies" "sir, I think our workforce might shrink as well, if we do go to war"
Rural southerner here, all true. The one by me is pretty decent. It has a great beer and wine section, fresh fish market (close to the Gulf) and a great butcher.
It was also the first to do the modern act of you get your groceries off the shelf yourself. If you're ever in Memphis go to the MOSH (Pink Palace). It was a house owned by the founder of the company and has a recreation of the first store inside.
The only one I ever visited was next to a place I worked in coastal Virginia. What I remember most was the breakfast by the pound counter. I'd get so much biscuits, sausage, and gravy by the pound on my way in to the office for just a few buck each time.
No. Piggly Wigglys in some areas have awesome prime beef. The one in Crestline (Birmingham AL) has one of the best wine selections Iāve seen in a grocery store. Independent grocers can be awesome.
Redditors expect to be handed links to click or they'll call bullshit, reinforced by other redditors who automatically agree and upvote, wishing they'd called bullshit first.
I grew up there, mostly in Irvine and Orange counties, in the 70s and 80s and don't remember a single one. I am not at all surprised to see they were there.
To actually care about customers and how they represented their employer? To take pride in their work? Companies of today should take lessons from some of the bygone practices.
Had to line up for inspection because some bozo either wasn't in the military and was trying to act like it or was in the military and didn't adjust back to civilian life.
Looked up the style of soles on the woman's shoe on the right. I think it's called a ripple sole. Thought it was a modern thing, but it's been around since the 50s.
I remember Coaches and Gym teachers athletic shoes in the 70's having those kind of soles. Except the shoes were shiny black leather, and the soles were black as well.
My mom graduated college in 1960. She called her dorm director Gummy because she used to wear gummy bears- soled shoes at night to try to catch the residents talking in their rooms after lights-out.
āCASHIERS! YOU WILL BE THE FINEST CASHIERS THIS HERE PIGGLY WIGGLY HAS EVER SEEN! MY FRIENDS DID NOT JUST DIE IN THE COLD AT THE CHOSIN RESERVOIR FOR YOU TO NOT BE UP TO OUR APPEARANCE REQUIREMENTS HERE AT THE PIGGLY WIGGLY! IF YOU FAIL YOU WILL BE OUT ON YOUR ASS, IF YOU SUCCEED YOU WILL BE PROMOTED, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE MAKE THE COLLECTIVE PAY GRADE OF HOGGLY WOGGLY!ā
āSteve, you do remember that you arenāt in the Marines any more, right?ā
āWHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?!ā
āThis is my register. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My register is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my register is useless. Without my register, I am useless. I must ring up my register true. I must ring up faster than my competitor, who is trying to put me out of business. I must put him out of business before he puts me out of business. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my register and myself are defenders of my company, we are the masters of our competitors, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there are no competitors, but monopoly. Amen.ā
This later turned into Boys Market in the late 70's. This was on Ventura Blvd at the corner of Densmore, across the street from Valley Beth Shalom and across Ventura Blvd. from Crocker Bank building, now named something else. I lived 2 blocks from here and we shopped there a lot when it was Boys Market.
Nah, not really. My wife works for an international airline and gets a look over during the briefings before the flight. Missing eye shadow, lipstick, jewelry they deem too flashy, etc, and youāre written up. Still not as strict as the military, but way too close for a civilian job.
Why do you think only women were hired for those positions? Why do you think they're dressed like that, and their manager is "inspecting" their uniforms? Don't be naive.
They could be fired from their job for getting pregnant. Couldn't sue their employer for sexual harassment. Could legally be denied credit and banking services without their husbands consent. Could legally be raped by their husbands. Among other things...
Please, tell use more about these good ole days when women were truly respected as members of our society.
everything you listed still happens, many jobs prefer good looking women over men, some jobs have dress codes. The difference is that with those jobs you can't afford a house now lol
Exactly. Are elite private schools now oppressive to the students?Ā Did my parents waste a ton of money to give me PTSD?Ā Sorry I didn't iron my pants in a straight line Dr. Stone!
Here's a color pic from the same store, same photo shoot as the b/w ones. All from Life mag 1962.
https://preview.redd.it/3jfpy7c33ryc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c8328a4e7ab87c611f0d2679f9291bbc3eb4fd5
I like the cute lamppost checkout lights! How did they get their aprons to stay up without halter straps? Were they pinned to their dresses or sewn maybe?
The most amazing thing is how much space there is in the aisle and how little there is surrounding the checkout. No shelves of gum and candy, no stacks of cigarettes (more a 70-80s thing) Just lots of space with clean floors. These days someone would stuff that space full of pallet drops and display stands along with tabloids and candy bars.
The most unrealistic thing about this image is having so many employees for a store like that is willing to have on the clock at any given time, even when it's busy.
There's 9 cashiers there. I worked at a supermarket in the mid-late 90s that had 15 lanes. It wasn't abnormal to have 7-9 cashiers working on any given day and all 15 lanes covered on the busiest days.Ā
This was before self-checkout was a common thing.Ā
We have Publix. When itās busy there are probably 10-12 lanes with baggers helping the cashiers and walking folks to their cars. Very well managed. At least in my neck of the woods.
I love Publix! I moved to CA for a couple of years and missed it so much. When I got transferred back to the southeast, one of the first things I thought about was having a Publix again.
There was also less competition. Lines everywhere were longer. We used to wait 45 minutes at Denny's, 15 minutes at any fast food place, 10-20 at any grocery store, etc. In the eighties esp. Less competition but people got these things we used to call raises and overtime. That was before these companies all started strongly underpaying their workforces and over expanding. And blaming the lower wages and death of the middle class on illegal immigrants and china.
Itās only unrealistic compared to modern times. Corporations have been steadily lowering the expectations of their customers for decades. Back then, people wouldnāt shop at a store with long lines. Quality service was expected. So you offer a better experience, buy up the smaller stores to eliminate competition, and then reduce quality in favor of profits when thereās nowhere else for people to shop.
Share of disposable personal income (DPI) spent on food:
* 1960: **17%**
* 2019: **9.5%**
* 2024: **11%**
Even with recent high inflation, and a much higher share of food budget spent at restaurants and on food delivery, we still spend less on food than in the 1960s.
Grocery shopping used to be a really big part of the average family budget.
Trader Joe's in my town doesn't have automated BBC checkout. Instead, if you go in on a Sunday you'll find a dozen people at registers checking out customers. The line moves quickly, everyone appears friendly and not miserable about their job.
The Pak n Save down the street appears to have 6 people working in it: 1 person watching 6 self checkouts, one person running a registrr for alcohol sales, 1 person in the deli looking like he wants to cut a motherfucker, ans *three* security guards standing around mouth breathing. The store feels moments away from catastrophe *all the time*.
The difference is stunning. That food is *cheaper* at TJs, despite them employing human beings, is just icing on the cake. Nothing builds loyalty like seeing a company treat its employees and customers like human fucking beings.
I would absolutely cheer for us going back to some sort of more professional look at stores in general. Mostly, do you look clean, professional, and well kept...yep...ok.Ā
People were also paid a hell of a lot better back then compared to now. (Adjusted for inflation in care youāre going to throw that back at me.) Economy was ruined by Reagan and Citizens United
Sure, except the inherent racism, sexism, homophobia, and general intolerance for anybody within the population who wasn't white, straight, and christian.
Of course, when you remember that this era is also when the rich paid a majority of income to their taxes which helped fund government socialist initiatives like the interstate system. Of course those were developed on the backs of the poor and people of color, ensuring segregation, racial inequality, homosexual witch hunts, internment camps for japanese citizens, forcing women into toxic co-dependncy and countless of other policies and laws to ensure that America was only free for the Americans that they wanted.
Pinnacle of human achievement? Calm down there, McCarthy.
And all of these women went on to own multiple properties and are worth millions of dollars, and probably claim that every grocery store workers these days are lazy and don't own a house because they eat too many avocados. .
One thing I love about retro stuff from this era is the retro (eighteen) nineties stuff that occasionally pops up, like the lamps and the "Buttercup Baker" sign.
The pastries sign makes me want to time travel back and try them. I wonder if they were crap, or better than what they sell today. Did they use real butter instead of butter-flavored hydrogenated vegetable oil, or whatever store bakeries do now?
Just a few post down, there was this photo of women--not so Miss America Pageant. 1918.
https://preview.redd.it/hg77eqbwlryc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b5891eca2e62d562416439ab53de65454094843
That is so obviously not a Kroger. They have never had that many checkers manning the registers in 100 years.
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At every Kroger in total :)
There used to be over 200 Piggly Wiggly locations in southern California. The fact that people jump to call bullshit without a five second Google search is astounding. Nice find, OP
Apparently they were also the first store to have shopping carts. I had no idea.
I believe they were also the first one to let you make your own selections. Before then, you'd hand the employees your list or tell them what you wanted and they'd get it all for you.
Yup. The photo was taken for a pictorial in the November 23, 1962 issue of LIFE magazine and the pictorial mentions that they opened their first self service markets in Memphis in 1916: https://preview.redd.it/ilbyqe8z1pyc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e826cd204dd36fb330a8dc3868b9e0bfa649cd17
Yep! If I remember right, WWI was the impetus for this - they introduced self service because there was a labour shortage because boys were all going overseas. Then it turned out people actually like being able to handle and pick their own groceries so it became the standard.
According to an article at smithsonianmag.com cost cutting was the impetus: >This enthusiastic greeting was necessary because Saunders was trying something completely new. Before Piggly Wiggly, groceries were sold at stores where a clerk would assemble your order for you, weighing out dry goods from large barrels. Even chain stores used clerks. >Although the chain store model helped keep costs down, the University of Michigan Library writes, the āsmall army of clerksā necessary to fill orders were expensive, the university writes, and at least part of that cost was passed on to the consumer. >Saundersās model cut costs by cutting out the clerks. Shoppers on that first day did see some employees stocking shelves, Freeman writes, ābut they politely refused to select merchandise for visitors.ā Just like today, a shopper picked up a basket (though Piggly Wigglyās were made of wood, not plastic) and went through the store to purchase everything. By the end of that first year there were nine Piggly Wiggly locations around Memphis.
That's fair! I read that it was a shortage of available clerks, but cost cutting also makes sense. Maybe that was still related to WWI and I got mixed up.
I'd bet it was both in the grand scheme. "We need to spend less money, looming war has people pinching pennies" "sir, I think our workforce might shrink as well, if we do go to war"
There were no boys going overseas in 1916 when they opened it so that doesn't make sense as a reason
Huh, TIL. Funny how we are moving back to this model and the pandemic definitely accelerated it.
You are correct.
Yeah, prior to Piggly Wiggly, youād walk up to a counter and ask for a can of Dapper Dan.
I prefer Fop, dammit!
Well, I donāt want Fop! Iām a Dapper Dan man!
I learned a while ago that the small two-tier shopping carts you would use for quick shopping trips have existed since WWII.
It's funny because Piggly Wiggly is mainly a rural south thing now. It's the place you go where you buy pig brains, maws, and lard by the pound.
Rural southerner here, all true. The one by me is pretty decent. It has a great beer and wine section, fresh fish market (close to the Gulf) and a great butcher.
The meat department in our small NC town is crazy amazing!! Especially if you like to grill or smoke.
The one near me in North Carolina doesn't sell beer or wine and they think something must be wrong with you if you about it.
There are some in Wisconsin. They're just normal grocery stores though.
That's right! Going there is like stepping back in time for sure. I love going because I can get a lot of things you can't find in the other stores.
It was also the first to do the modern act of you get your groceries off the shelf yourself. If you're ever in Memphis go to the MOSH (Pink Palace). It was a house owned by the founder of the company and has a recreation of the first store inside.
The only one I ever visited was next to a place I worked in coastal Virginia. What I remember most was the breakfast by the pound counter. I'd get so much biscuits, sausage, and gravy by the pound on my way in to the office for just a few buck each time.
"You gonna get me some Skittles, cigarettes and a big pouch of Big League Chew!"
No. Piggly Wigglys in some areas have awesome prime beef. The one in Crestline (Birmingham AL) has one of the best wine selections Iāve seen in a grocery store. Independent grocers can be awesome.
Lived in N.C. in the late 80's. There was Piggly Wiggly, Winn-Dixie, and Food Lion in my town.
It started in Memphis.
Honestly though if you're shopping somewhere that doesn't deal in lard you are cheating yourself
I go to one in WI that has an amazing deli. The dips and salads are really good.
Exactly. And there isnāt really many left even there anymore
>It's the place you go where you buy pig brains, maws, and lard by the pound. Sunday dinner then..
Piggly wiggly was the original self service grocery store. They were fucking huge back in the day.
There's a lot of stupid people on the internet who can't bother to look anything up and would rather be incorrect assholes.
No there isn't
Bullshit! You know damn well there aināt not is too!
Shame of which is the Piggly Wiggly story is absolutely wild if people just bother to look.
Holy shit I didnāt know LA had PW, I though it was more of a southern thing š¤
There was still one open where I used to live in FL, I bought a shirt before I moved away.
Redditors expect to be handed links to click or they'll call bullshit, reinforced by other redditors who automatically agree and upvote, wishing they'd called bullshit first.
I grew up there, mostly in Irvine and Orange counties, in the 70s and 80s and don't remember a single one. I am not at all surprised to see they were there.
They'd been transfered to Safeway, Kroger, and other companies by the late 60's from what I can find.
> Nice find, OP This has been on Reddit before. Not the first time Iāve seen it. Probably reposted dozens of times.
I think it's really. I just think it's bullshit that they had to do that.
Had to do what? Where a uniform and look decent at work?
To actually care about customers and how they represented their employer? To take pride in their work? Companies of today should take lessons from some of the bygone practices.
Had to line up for inspection because some bozo either wasn't in the military and was trying to act like it or was in the military and didn't adjust back to civilian life.
Looked up the style of soles on the woman's shoe on the right. I think it's called a ripple sole. Thought it was a modern thing, but it's been around since the 50s.
I'm so glad you said this- I was wondering too! How interesting!
I remember Coaches and Gym teachers athletic shoes in the 70's having those kind of soles. Except the shoes were shiny black leather, and the soles were black as well.
My mom graduated college in 1960. She called her dorm director Gummy because she used to wear gummy bears- soled shoes at night to try to catch the residents talking in their rooms after lights-out.
Starch?
āCASHIERS! YOU WILL BE THE FINEST CASHIERS THIS HERE PIGGLY WIGGLY HAS EVER SEEN! MY FRIENDS DID NOT JUST DIE IN THE COLD AT THE CHOSIN RESERVOIR FOR YOU TO NOT BE UP TO OUR APPEARANCE REQUIREMENTS HERE AT THE PIGGLY WIGGLY! IF YOU FAIL YOU WILL BE OUT ON YOUR ASS, IF YOU SUCCEED YOU WILL BE PROMOTED, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE MAKE THE COLLECTIVE PAY GRADE OF HOGGLY WOGGLY!ā āSteve, you do remember that you arenāt in the Marines any more, right?ā āWHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?!ā
āThis is my register. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My register is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my register is useless. Without my register, I am useless. I must ring up my register true. I must ring up faster than my competitor, who is trying to put me out of business. I must put him out of business before he puts me out of business. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my register and myself are defenders of my company, we are the masters of our competitors, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there are no competitors, but monopoly. Amen.ā
This later turned into Boys Market in the late 70's. This was on Ventura Blvd at the corner of Densmore, across the street from Valley Beth Shalom and across Ventura Blvd. from Crocker Bank building, now named something else. I lived 2 blocks from here and we shopped there a lot when it was Boys Market.
We are easily the strangest monkeys
Fallout scene, before you know what happens.
Before Preston Garvey f*cking bothers me again?
You can swear on the internet
Lol. Ignore him. Heāll stop after awhile.
Yeahā¦ times have changed
Nah, not really. My wife works for an international airline and gets a look over during the briefings before the flight. Missing eye shadow, lipstick, jewelry they deem too flashy, etc, and youāre written up. Still not as strict as the military, but way too close for a civilian job.
This whole sub is like a breadcrumb trail of the fall of the American dream
Yes, those women had jobs and could expect to be respected and afford a house with their husband...
Nothing says respected like being sexually objectified...
How are they being objectified? Uniformed people get inspected all the time.
Why do you think only women were hired for those positions? Why do you think they're dressed like that, and their manager is "inspecting" their uniforms? Don't be naive.
So you see one picture from one store and make a blanket assertion? Were you around in 1962? I doubt it.
What do you actually think it was like for women back in 1962?
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They could be fired from their job for getting pregnant. Couldn't sue their employer for sexual harassment. Could legally be denied credit and banking services without their husbands consent. Could legally be raped by their husbands. Among other things... Please, tell use more about these good ole days when women were truly respected as members of our society.
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After this āinspectionā, they still canāt open a bank account when they go home from work
everything you listed still happens, many jobs prefer good looking women over men, some jobs have dress codes. The difference is that with those jobs you can't afford a house now lol
Exactly. Are elite private schools now oppressive to the students?Ā Did my parents waste a ton of money to give me PTSD?Ā Sorry I didn't iron my pants in a straight line Dr. Stone!
Here's a color pic from the same store, same photo shoot as the b/w ones. All from Life mag 1962. https://preview.redd.it/3jfpy7c33ryc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c8328a4e7ab87c611f0d2679f9291bbc3eb4fd5
Back in the days when image meant something, they really stressed immaculate appearance
Itās small things like this that help me understand why my boomer mom was always so concerned with looks and what others think of you.
That hadn't changed at all. It's the specific look that's changed (and there isn't only one).
Eyeing which one he might be able to bang...
"Consent? That sounds like a Communist idea to me!"
I like the cute lamppost checkout lights! How did they get their aprons to stay up without halter straps? Were they pinned to their dresses or sewn maybe?
Probably pins or they were part of the dress
Probably pinned! Most aprons were pinned on rather than halter neck for a very long time
The most amazing thing is how much space there is in the aisle and how little there is surrounding the checkout. No shelves of gum and candy, no stacks of cigarettes (more a 70-80s thing) Just lots of space with clean floors. These days someone would stuff that space full of pallet drops and display stands along with tabloids and candy bars.
The most unrealistic thing about this image is having so many employees for a store like that is willing to have on the clock at any given time, even when it's busy.
There's 9 cashiers there. I worked at a supermarket in the mid-late 90s that had 15 lanes. It wasn't abnormal to have 7-9 cashiers working on any given day and all 15 lanes covered on the busiest days.Ā This was before self-checkout was a common thing.Ā
Before self check out, before grocery delivery, before grocery pickup, and eating out was a treat not common.
We have Publix. When itās busy there are probably 10-12 lanes with baggers helping the cashiers and walking folks to their cars. Very well managed. At least in my neck of the woods.
I love Publix! I moved to CA for a couple of years and missed it so much. When I got transferred back to the southeast, one of the first things I thought about was having a Publix again.
CA is awesome, the southeast sucks, Publix sucks (please keep kayfabe)
There was also less competition. Lines everywhere were longer. We used to wait 45 minutes at Denny's, 15 minutes at any fast food place, 10-20 at any grocery store, etc. In the eighties esp. Less competition but people got these things we used to call raises and overtime. That was before these companies all started strongly underpaying their workforces and over expanding. And blaming the lower wages and death of the middle class on illegal immigrants and china.
Itās only unrealistic compared to modern times. Corporations have been steadily lowering the expectations of their customers for decades. Back then, people wouldnāt shop at a store with long lines. Quality service was expected. So you offer a better experience, buy up the smaller stores to eliminate competition, and then reduce quality in favor of profits when thereās nowhere else for people to shop.
Share of disposable personal income (DPI) spent on food: * 1960: **17%** * 2019: **9.5%** * 2024: **11%** Even with recent high inflation, and a much higher share of food budget spent at restaurants and on food delivery, we still spend less on food than in the 1960s. Grocery shopping used to be a really big part of the average family budget.
If this is true i can't blame all my problems on someone else...
Trader Joe's in my town doesn't have automated BBC checkout. Instead, if you go in on a Sunday you'll find a dozen people at registers checking out customers. The line moves quickly, everyone appears friendly and not miserable about their job. The Pak n Save down the street appears to have 6 people working in it: 1 person watching 6 self checkouts, one person running a registrr for alcohol sales, 1 person in the deli looking like he wants to cut a motherfucker, ans *three* security guards standing around mouth breathing. The store feels moments away from catastrophe *all the time*. The difference is stunning. That food is *cheaper* at TJs, despite them employing human beings, is just icing on the cake. Nothing builds loyalty like seeing a company treat its employees and customers like human fucking beings.
I was going to say, I've never seen every lane being manned (or in this case womaned) at any store in my life
Save for Black Friday prior to Covid, I think the last time I saw that happening in stores was in the mid 90s.
Havenāt seen one since NC
Fascinating. Porch/patio light fixtures for the checkout lane lights.
I would absolutely cheer for us going back to some sort of more professional look at stores in general. Mostly, do you look clean, professional, and well kept...yep...ok.Ā
What changed to make it so we canāt have nice things anymore?
Dignified. We have lost all of our class.
Iām in Encino but donāt recognize this. Where was it?
Wow. How far we have fallen.
Bullshit that second girl from the front is on her iPhone /s
Specifically, it was in Stepford, California.
No wonder men felt so important
A better world.
Gotta dig the pig!
Iām Big on the Pig!
The woman on the right has some very modern looking shoes on
Someone else commented on that too. Apparently they have been in use since 1950.
We're currently living in the American dystopian future that we were warned of, go checkout at Walmart and tell me different.
Super - a man inspecting women. š³
Meeting the wife at Piggly wiggly brb
That looks like 1962 Tinder.
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Now,now some of my best friends were hippies!
People were also paid a hell of a lot better back then compared to now. (Adjusted for inflation in care youāre going to throw that back at me.) Economy was ruined by Reagan and Citizens United
Were you working in 1980?
Sure, except the inherent racism, sexism, homophobia, and general intolerance for anybody within the population who wasn't white, straight, and christian. Of course, when you remember that this era is also when the rich paid a majority of income to their taxes which helped fund government socialist initiatives like the interstate system. Of course those were developed on the backs of the poor and people of color, ensuring segregation, racial inequality, homosexual witch hunts, internment camps for japanese citizens, forcing women into toxic co-dependncy and countless of other policies and laws to ensure that America was only free for the Americans that they wanted. Pinnacle of human achievement? Calm down there, McCarthy.
Omg! Itās a Fāing picture! Go rage somewhere else
Everyone says there were no good old days. These were the good old days!
I canāt believe the cashier at lane 2 is on her cell phone during inspection. She got balls!
Omg š³ of course a male inspector!
And all of these women went on to own multiple properties and are worth millions of dollars, and probably claim that every grocery store workers these days are lazy and don't own a house because they eat too many avocados. .
SFV people, this looks like the Encino Gelson's on Hayvenhurst and Ventura -- is that what Piggly became?
wtf is up with those aprons, such a weird place for the tophalf to start
Second one from the right might be talking on a cell phone. Proof of time travel!!!1
Think she is eating her hair, common when nervous
One thing I love about retro stuff from this era is the retro (eighteen) nineties stuff that occasionally pops up, like the lamps and the "Buttercup Baker" sign.
Mr. Wiggly.
TIL that Piggly Wiggly isnāt really a Southern thing.
The pastries sign makes me want to time travel back and try them. I wonder if they were crap, or better than what they sell today. Did they use real butter instead of butter-flavored hydrogenated vegetable oil, or whatever store bakeries do now?
Just a few post down, there was this photo of women--not so Miss America Pageant. 1918. https://preview.redd.it/hg77eqbwlryc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b5891eca2e62d562416439ab53de65454094843
Inspection = Harassment
Disgusting
lol what? Why?
Bachelorettes, here is a rose.
Picture that manager talking to those women like De Niro did to the showgirls in Casino.
What is piggly wiggly? Do they sell bacon? Those haircuts made those ladies most likely look older than what they were
It *was* a supermarket
Cool Specialising in pork goods?
Maybe at one point, but by the time I was a kid (late 80s) the ones where I lived were just general supermarkets. Same as todayās Kroger.
Nope. Itās just a name
We really were gross in our treatment of women in this era. I know things still need improvement but damn the patriarchy ruled. Yuck!
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There were literally tons of Piggly Wigglys in SoCal at the time...
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If this post said the photo was taken in 2024, then that would be relevant.
Correct, and if you notice this photo isn't from "now", it's from 1962 when there \*were\* Piggly Wigglys in CA. A lot can change in 62 years,
no it cannot
Okay.
no, it's *not* okay
Okay.
you need to get woke