Nostalgic list! What are some grocery store items or experiences that stand out the most for you? 🛒

I'm Gen X and i remember the Quik with the metal top using a spoon to get it open.. before plastic took over the world

Remember toys in cereal boxes?

I remember green stamps!

I am a gen x im sure 1 thing boomers and genx have in common we can agree everyone was dressed in clothes not pajamas and slippers at the grocery store

Heat up a TV dinner, set up a TV tray, sit down and watch Gunsmoke.

Remember when wine wasn’t sold in grocery stores and stores were closed on Sundays?

I loved it when grocery stores just sold food and they did their baking onsite. The smell of fresh doughnuts was so welcoming.

I remember Log Cabin Syrup in a glass shaped log cabin.

Boomer here, born 1958. #1 i live in Arizona and my grocery store has a bar (beer & wine only) in it. #2 mom cooked every night except on Sundays. Never had a TV dinner until I move out at 18. #3 Welches grape jelly came in glass drinking glasses. When the jelly was gone, you had a glass with the Flintstones printed on it #4 became a truck driver in 1991 and I remember a truck stop gave out S & H Green stamps. #5 last one I promise. Mom always dressed very nicely, but did not wear an evening gown to go shopping

Yeah, but back in the day those cashiers actually knew how to count out change so if their machine wasn't working properly it wasn't a problem.

Women shopped at the same store every week because the stores featured a different piece of matching China they could get according to their purchase. Also stores gave customers s & h stamps according to how much you bought. When you accumulated enough stamps you could visit the s& h stamp store and turn in your stamps for lots of products. Usually kitchen and home items. It was a big deal for the family and everyone went.

I was born in 1956. My mother always cooked dinner everyday. On Sundays she would fix the best roast beef in a pressure cooker. Homemade rolls that she baked on Saturday, mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn or green beans. She was a good cook. When we got home from church on Sunday night, wed get the leftover roast and eat it on the rolls. So good.

I remember the deafening cacophony of the cash registers of the early 70's. I miss those days!

I worked at a grocery store while in highschool. I saw so many products and ways to package them come and go with the times. Women would buy Dippity Do and hair rollers while getting Vitalis for dads. They would buy TV dinners, pot pies, Nestle Quick and Tang for the kids. Soda came only in returnable glass bottles that kids would bring in radio flyer wagons the empty containers to collect the .5 cents per bottle. We then stacked the bottles in wooden crates for pickup by delivery drivers. Outside every store was a penny bubble gum glass dome. Grocery bags were brown paper only and bag boys would take everything to your car and load them for you. You never had to guess the price of any item since a price marker had been used by the overnight stocking crew to mark everything. Cashiers would then ring the marked price unless missing a sticker and then would have to call over intercom "Price check on...".

TV Dinners at .98 ea seem expensive given that we were a family of 7. My parents were amazing; we never felt as though we lacked anything. RIP Dad and Mom - I love you forever ❤

The original Prell bottle had that distinctive shape, so you instantly knew it was Prell. We loved Quik and Strawberry Quik Now we are awash in plastics from the grocery store, but when my mom was shopping in the 60s and 70s, the packaging was far more natural. Meats and fruit such as strawberries came in cardboard trays or baskets. Bulk fruit in nets had real string nets, not the plastic nets of today. There were cubbies of paper bags under the produce displays, you would grab one and fill it with plums or cherries or whatever. Mom would reuse the paper bags for our school lunch bags. Not to mention big take home bags were all paper. Laundry detergent came in big cardboard boxes - no bottles. My dad used paper bags as mulch in his veg garden. No wonder we are awash in tons of plastic!

I would love to go back in time and shop in a grocery store like we did in the good old days it's was the best times love it ❤❤😊

TV diners were the meal that dads would feed their kids while their wives were at a Tupperware party lol.

I live in Canada . What I remember about food in the 70s is : Breeze laundry detergent ( power , in different sized boxes ) had either a bath towel , hand towel, or a face cloth in it . Mustard was sold in glass jar that became drinking glasses . Red Rose tea bags came with an ornament in each box .

I remember when people served their life working in a grocery store. They had nice houses , nice vehicles , most had small boats , and fished every weekend. It was odd to have a grocery store worker to be hateful back then. Every one of them I remember took pride in their work. It really does seem that times were much simpler then.

I totally remember when you used it have to dress up to go to the grocery store go to church go to the movies and so on and on and so on. Times have truly changed.

I miss the good old days… now you go to the store and the entitled employees act like it’s an inconvenience if you bother them, they aren’t all like that but the majority are.

Not only stores, but gas stations were closed on Sundays.

Not just boomers, Gen x at least early ones like me grew up on a lot of this, though some was only in America. Went shopping with my mom all the time. Just because we weren’t adults doesn’t make our memories of all this any less clear. Nesquik was great and canned ham, not spam was also good. Stores were only for groceries and absolutely closed on sundays.

Here's what I remember from mid-1970s groceries stores. My mom bought EVERYTHING for a full family Thanksgiving dinner for $50.

I miss the butcher shops and bakeries in stores too.

Watching this is making me very hungry and nostalgic..

I remember when little toys came in cereal boxes. 😊😊❤

I was born in 1970. I remember so much of this. I remember Mama (grandma raised me, born in 1915) insisted that we wear nice clothes with matching shoes and pocket books to go shopping. We didn't live close enough to go often so we went to town monthly and it was THE event in my life. She never used a coupon in her life. She felt it was some sort of charity. She was appalled when the "new Piggly Wiggly" in town had things besides groceries. When generics came out I thought she was going to have a heart attack. She was goaded into buying generic tang ONE time. I remember those metal Quick cans, those little tins which held 6 or 8 Anacin but you needed to push just the right spot. I miss those days! I remember a surprising amount of things about shopping in the 1970's. I remember the bicentennial very well, with the year leading up to it having stores stocked with patriotic decorated snacks and patriotic packaging.

I miss lunch counters. We had one in our supermarket. And they were in "Dime stores". We had "Kresges", and "Woolworths"and "Grants". These were pre Kmart days. In Detroit suburbs, in the 60's. Woolworths are still open in Germany.

Being born in the 50's I remember the grocer knew my name & referred to my mother as Mrs ****. The smell of fresh bread as l ran through the store to help my mom and I learned to shop. I don't think technology has improved this experience.

What I'm nostalgic for is when the person at the register ringing up your order actually acknowleged your existence. Now, almost everywhere, you never get so much as a greeting, and the person running the register does not even acknowlege you when you're speaking directly to them. They are definitely hearing and speach enabled, because they spend the whole time that they are ignoring you, chatting and socializing with their co-workers. The customer is forced to be persistent in trying to interrupt to get even the slightest response. Even if these employees have no idea of their own of how to behave and interact with customers, why aren't their employers training them???? I had many cashier jobs as a teen and it would never occur to me to be so rude and dismissive of a customer I was supposed to be serving.

Don't forget those coin operated kiddie rides in front of the stores. My favorite part of shopping.

Margarine = Evil, just yellow oil - only butter for me. I remember and never cared for the savory Jello foods.

This video is all over the place.

In the winter, I’d still use the Nestle’s to make hot chocolate.

Back in the day, TV dinners came in aluminum. Why on earth are they using plastic now?!! Aluminum is so much more better for the environment! And we should go back to glass packaging like generations before! We did it in my day and we turned out fine.

I remember candy cigarettes

you are wrong. walmart was never a supermarket. it was a discount store. grocery food is something new that was added not too long ago.

My mother always bought Prell, but i hated the smell. I got a job mowing yards so i could buy Herbal Essence. I loved the smell. I wish they would bring back the original scent.

I was born in 1979 and remember Nestle Quick as a kid I would make chocolate milk and sometimes take a spoonful of powder right in my mouth lol

I miss the the local Delicatessens, Bakeries, Town Diner's, & A&P's of 1950-60's Boston. ✝️🙏🕯️🇺🇲💪

Baby boomer I remember my moms boyfriend had a station wagon we would put our pijamas to go to a drive in.

We still have some aluminum drinking glasses that my Grandmother got in laundry soap. I have a little metal cabinet that my mother got with green stamps.

I remember going with my grandmother to the green grocers. They only carried fruit and vegetables! The store was downtown, we walked there and grandma bought 1/2 lb green beans. The owner of the store spoke with Grandma and made recommendations on freshness and when vegetables had been picked! He even knew what farms different vegetables had come from! Grandpa drove Grandma to the butcher usually on Saturday morning, and she would get the meat for the week!

I was about 8 in 1968. We did a big grocery shop. The whole family always went together. We bought two grocery carts, mounded with food, we were 5 in our house . The total was, 64.00. That was a lot of money and a lot of food. Good days!

I was born in the early 80s. I remember Quick in a metal can. Used to get a 25lb bag of flour, and we still have a flour bin in the kitchen. We had a lot of these things on this video.

I grew up in Marinette Wi, right on the Wi, Mi border. When I was small, late 50s, I remember going with my mom to drive across the bridge into Menominee Mi to buy margarine at Niemans grocery store. We couldn't get it in Wi, being the Dairy state, stores sold real butter. I never knew why she didnt like butter, everythings better with butter. I use butter and wouldn't think of ever baking without using real butter .

Having been born in the very early 1950's , I remember a lot of new products . Transistor radios , portable tape recorders bought at Goodyear , Western Auto brand guns , push button phones , portable TV's , The BEATLES :D and on and on . My mother actually started doing survey work door to door in the early 60's . She would drop off all manner of new products in homes . Then come back later and ask people if they liked the product , or what they would change . She loved doing this , and did it through the 90's . This included new " disposable " diapers and razors , new brands of cigarettes , candy , cereal , shampoo's , you name it . If it was used in a home , chances are she tested it :D When I was in Vietnam , like many . Mom and family sent me Tang to put in my " treated " water to make it way better . Cool video !!

The bad thing about supermarkets today is the bakeries have no lovely aroma, and the meat department also has no aroma. It is a very sterile environment. I love the cleanliness, but I also like to go to an independent bakery and my German butcher to get things from them. The aroma makes a wonderful shopping experience.

I'm gen x and I remember a lot of these.

Omg! I had forgotten that prell had come with a pearl in the bottle to show how rich it was!

I miss the day when adults knew how to behave and taught their children how to behave too. There is no way that my sibling or I would ever think it was okay for us as children about run up and down the aisles or scream at the top of our lungs in a public place. Parents now seem fine with their children's horrid behavior as long as their kid isn't bothering them. Parents now seem completely unaware that it's their job to socialize their children and teach their kids how to behave.

We used Hershey’s coco powder and the tin opened the same way.

I miss the 70s😢

Australia must be sooo backwards (sarcasm), we still have customer service counters, bakeries, a delicatessen, child friendly trolleys, scales in produce, giveaway fruit for kids… actually quite a few of these.

Free cookie anyone! Remember in order to easily open fruit and produce bags they had a little peice of a sponge they kept wet for your fingers, now people lick their fingers 🤨🤢

The invention of the TV dinner. Wow 🎉🎉.

Things that have gone from my local grocery stores up here in Montréal but that I want back: Grape-Nut Flakes Variety meats Double-manned cash registers, one person ringing up your groceries and the other one bagging them Free samples Pinkie stamps, the Steinberg's grocery store equivalent to Green Stamps; Steinberg's went belly up in 1992, but the Pinky stamps had disappeared well before that People who bothered to dress stylishly or at least nicely before leaving the house (the ballgowns in this video were downright silly, though; nobody wore ballgown to run errands). Things that have changed for the better: Larger grocery stores, though fewer and further apart Sunday openings Longer business hours.

Miss those prices!

GenX here and i remember a good portion of all these things in the video. Things i miss are actual butchers in the grocery stores, baggers that helped you to your car if needed, brachs mix and match candy displays, Cheer laundry soap,Quisp cereal, cartons of bottled soda, and Eckrich variety pack square lunchmeat that actually fit perfectly on square pieces of bread lol. Oh yeah almost forgot the twin packs of potato chips.

N-E-S-T-L-E-S 🎶 Nestles sells the very best - chocolate 🦌

I forgot about the key to open Spam & other cans, now everything is pulltops.

I was born in 1950. We lived in Cheshire, Connecticut. My mother went to a very small Mom and Pop store for groceries. The store had hardwood flooring. They sold meat, bread other dry goods. The best thing in the world to me was the Coffee Grinder. You could watch the beans being chopped, made a great noise and smelled like heaven. Does anyone remember Bosco chocolate Syrup? My favourite. I recall Prell Shampoo in a glass container. In the early 50s, children were well behaved in stores, not like now. I would rather shop in a smaller store than an overwhelming monster sized huge boxed store. I still like Frosted Flakes with Tony the Tiger on the label. On Sunday, everything was closed. Most people went to church. Never had Spam, my mother said it was junk. Same with Soda. We always had real butter, never Oleo. Fresh Seafood was available and wonderful, as were vegetables fresh from the garden.

Wasn't Green Stamps talked about a lot on All In The Family?

Grocery stores didn't accept debit or credit cards until the early '90's. I remember when Farmer Jack started accepting debit and credit, it was a big deal. You had to give them your phone number in case the charge didn't go through, which is what happened to me, lol. The supermarket called me and I had to reauthorize the charge

I am a Baby Boomer 64 years old and this takes me back thank you! I remember my father buying laundry soap and getting a free glass or mug in the box. And the Green Stamps my Grandmother had tons of Green Stamps and books. Anyone remember Fizzies and Shake a puddin ? I remember everything in this video and then some that are not. Beautiful memories thank you!

Back back in the day when TV dinners actually had a taste to them that was good.

Mrs. Dash didn’t come out until 1983.

I used to love Strawberry Quik

I GREW UP WIRH SWANSON TURKEY DINNERS IN THE 1950'S HOW I MISS MY SWANSON DINNERS PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!

Does anyone else remember at the.grocery stores exits how they lined up tons of coin op machines for the kids. The Pez machine was my favorite 😊

I wish i had Nestle Quick right now! Yum!

I remember when my uncle got severely cut by a glass bottle of Prell while showering. He had to have stitches on his foot. My aunt swore to never use it again. Then it came out in plastic bottle form.

I remember the wonderful smell around the 8 O'clock coffee grinder at the A&P grocery store ! ❤😊

Waiting for the Good Humor man was always a peak on a hot summer day. What fun!

Your editing needs improvement. When you compare to today it is often cut off. The produce department was very dependent upon what products were in season. In Canada, breakfast cereals often had small toys inside. Or you could save box tops to mail in to get prizes. My favourite cereal was rice krispies, particularly with sliced bananas. Frosted Flakes was my favourite sugared cereal. I remember when Quik came out with banana flavour. Margarine only came in white with a little pack of dye you could mix in to make it yellow like butter. We had a milkman who brought us milk and butter.

In the UK we had Green Shiield stamps, my mother loved them. As kids we got sick of the taste of the gum from spending what seemed like hours sticking them in the books. They really were a con since you need to fill five books to exchange for a bread knife you could buy for almost nothing at most hardware shops. The most " expensive" item in the catalogue was an Austin Mini car. You would have spend aboud about two million pounds in today's money to accumulate enough stamps to get one and you would ned a very large van to take all the books to the nearest Green Shield outlet in ordto be put on a waiting list for the car. All this was stated in microscopic print im the back of the catalogue. I never head of anyone collecting anywhere near enough stamps to get a car. You would have to save for years in order to have enough stamps for things like washing machines or fridges.

What is with all the random images and clips that have nothing to do with the script?

I remember not being able to watch a movie on TV on Sunday! Today, anything goes! Lol!

Back in a different time, Quick came in a metal can, The smell of the product when first opened, omg it good stuff.

Fizzies❤

I remember all of these. Born in 1960. Families went to the stores together and dressed to go shopping. I remember the cigarette and candy machines. I remember we couldn't sit at the food counters in Maryland.

When i was a kid in the late 60s and 70s in nyc, we had "Met" and Grand union supermarkets. I remember walking into woolworths and smelling the popcorn and cotton candy. The counter ladies wore light blue uniforms and a blue paper crown. They had a menu and it had counter seating. A cheeseburger and fries was 2.49 and it was GOOD. I loved Bosco and Quik. And white castle. Burgers were 10cents. Cheese burgers were 15 cents. A shake was 75 cents. Carvel was the go to place for ice cream.

Remember that as frozen tv dinner sales spiked, more & more women were working outside the home, I know it was a factor.

Now you go into a grocery store, and they have one isle of canned food. And when there is a run, ( like there was on toilet paper at the start of covid) people are stunned when there just IS no food. Store do not keep a warehouse in the back. There IS no backup.

Green stamps 🖕

The part about stores only selling food isn't accurate. I can remember a "toy aisle" at my local grocery store even when I was a very young child in the 60's.

Toothpaste came in metal tubes. You could buy a 3-pack of plastic “keys”, to attach to the back end and roll it up as used, to get every last morsel! And how about “squeezy cheese”? Revolting stuff. Or the aroma beads to put in the special tp holder. Coloured/scented toilet paper. We always got the lilac because every fixture in the bathroom was purple. Stubby glass bottles for beer.

They sold laundry and dish soap. Also they never closed on Sunday. I remember when the banks closed at 3:00 pm. So glad they changed that.

Raleigh cigarettes had a coupon on the back of every pack. I remember that we had one large drawer filled with them. I’m pretty sure that was in the 5o’s.

Nestles Quick was my go to drink as a kid. 👍🏻

In California, we had Blue Chip stamps instead of Green stamps.

My memories do not include fancy dress, my memories are of women wearing hair curlers and “housecoats” to the store and then spending time running into friends and apologizing for their lack of fussing.

EXCELLENT----VERY GOOD VIDEO...Brings back memories....I appreciate many things...My mom used to give us TV-DINNERS.....I considered DELICIOUS!!!...specially one that included FISH STICKS(or BALLS) ...Its funny now that some extremists are considering that plastics are kind of "satanic"(I dont think so)...are returning to GLASS (with all the inconvenients).....Can you imagine a glass of SHAMPOO breaking in the middle of your BATH

Apparently the only expiration dates were on Eggs, Milk and Bread.

Green stamps didn’t fade away in the 80’s. I got married in ‘89 and saved Green stamps for several years. I dropped on Tuesdays because my local grocer gave double Green stamps on Tuesdays. That was up until ‘92 or ‘93.

Love Twinkies!♥️✌️

Grocery stores definitely sold magazines in the 60s and 70s. I always got Mad, Cracked, Tiger Beat at the grocery store. Later, I got Seventeen and Cosmopolitan at the grocery store.