Grocery stores from days gone by.

[kenny]

My, how things change!

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[stracci2000]

@kenny
Remember when they used to stamp prices on the cans with that purple ink?
Haha, before bar codes!
Look, I still have one of these from my old grocery days:


It still works!

 

[kenny]

Remember when they used to stamp prices on the cans with that purple ink?

Yup. I'm that old.
Remember trading stamps? S&H and Blue Chip?

In the early 1960s my first guitar came from an S&H store.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@kenny
Remember when they used to stamp prices on the cans with that purple ink?
Haha, before bar codes!
Look, I still have one of these from my old grocery days:


It still works!

the scourge of all career shop asisiatnts
although the bigger ones that also printed an in house code (that was the cost) were even bi*cher to reload

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

those old supermarkets are so awsome looking
we didnt get a (woolworths) supermarket in my city untill into my lifetime

but i rememebr the grocer in South Dunedin getting a bar code scaner when i was at high school
it was revolutionary
MrMcLean was his name
his shop was part of a large national chain
he had i think 3 (maybe 4?) checkouts

 

[pearlsngems]

I remember S&H Green stamps! You were given so many stamps for every dollar you spent at the grocery store. It was my job, after our shopping trips, to wet the gummed stamps and stick them in the stamp books. When you had enough filled stamp books, you could go to the S&H redemption center and choose gifts.

With S&H stamps I got:

• a framed print of Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, which hung on my childhood bedroom's wall for years.
• a Hohner Melodica Piano 26.
• a Burlington padded stool whose lid lifted to reveal a sewing chest (item #13 in the photo)
• a blue 2-tier Mele jewelry box that I still own.
I also still have my mother's quilted sewing box (item #14 in the photo, but hers was pink).

What I really lusted for was the Baldwin Acrosonic piano in the S&H Ideabook-- and I cannot imagine how many filled Green stamp books it would have taken get that piano! Not that we would have had space for it in our house, but a kid can dream!

 

[stracci2000]

I remember S&H Green stamps! You were given so many stamps for every dollar you spent at the grocery store. It was my job, after our shopping trips, to wet the gummed stamps and stick them in the stamp books. When you had enough filled stamp books, you could go to the S&H redemption center and choose gifts.

With S&H stamps I got:

• a framed print of Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, which hung on my childhood bedroom's wall for years.
• a Hohner Melodica Piano 26.
• a Burlington padded stool whose lid lifted to reveal a sewing chest (item #13 in the photo)
• a blue 2-tier Mele jewelry box that I still own.
I also still have my mother's quilted sewing box (item #14 in the photo, but hers was pink).

What I really lusted for was the Baldwin Acrosonic piano in the S&H Ideabook-- and I cannot imagine how many filled Green stamp books it would have taken get that piano! Not that we would have had space for it in our house, but a kid can dream!

OMG, I want all that cool stuff!
I remember the S&H green stamps too!

 

[stracci2000]

Who remembers when drinking glasses and dish towels were inside boxes of Duz and Breeze powdered detergent?
I seem to recall we had quite a few of those blue swirl glasses. Those towels were pretty cheap and thin. They were rolled up in a small box buried in the powder.

 

[kenny]

Who remembers when drinking glasses and dish towels were inside boxes of Duz and Breeze powdered detergent?
I seem to recall we had quite a few of those blue swirl glasses. Those towels were pretty cheap and thin. They were rolled up in a small box buried in the powder.

I do.

As a kid we lived in the midwest where they sold Jays potato chips in a real metal can.
They were delicious!

I never appreciated it at the time, but you got very few broken chips fro those cans.
Today, in the bags, a large percentage are broken.

We reused the cans for various things in the garage and the house.
Anyone remember those cans?

 

[SomethingNew]

surprisingly the packaging of Campbell soup hasn't changed. The Cream of Oyster soup looks intriguing, wish they still make it.

I do notice most shoppers in the pictures are women though.

 

[Calliecake]

I remember the grocery store pricing done in the purple ink.

I remember the Jay’s potato chips and the blue and white storage tin.
Everyone had those tins when I was a kid @kenny.