How Supermarkets Took Over | Full Documentary

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Жыл бұрын

How did the supermarket come into being and where is it heading? A selection of designers, scientists, historians, and psychologists along side rarely seen archive footage, describe the emergence and evolution of the supermarket concept. An invention that has already fundamentally shaped our everyday lives, further advances in technology look set to further revolutionise how and what we consume.
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@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 Жыл бұрын

In 1970 I was 6 years old and I lived in Eldorado SP, Brazil. One of the best memories I have is going to a store on the other side of town that sold rice, beans and corn in bulk. "250 grams of lard, please" (at the time, not many people used soy oil for cooking). In the same store, alcoholic beverages and rope tobacco were sold. The smell of rolls of rope tobacco dominated the dimly lit room. Entering that store was like entering an enchanted cave. And I usually bought some mints that looked like they were made of stone and took forever to melt in my mouth. Supermarkets sell a lot more things, but they can hardly be considered as mysterious as that old store near the Ribeira River.

@jeaniehammond40 5 күн бұрын

Oh memories right? Days gone by will be forever etched in our memory.

@karenhollywood3523 9 ай бұрын

I have watched a lot if documentaries on Supermarkets, but this one by far is the very best one ever! Just love not only the information, but seeing all those old products and stores in color. Excellent commentary by the contributors and Narrator. Just FASCINATING! I have friends and family who work both in the USA and the UK who work in supermarkets , and am sharing this one with them. Thanks for creating this, thoroughly informative, and entertaining too. I will be watching this one again! 😎🙌🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@ingriddurden3929 Жыл бұрын

I don't need to watch further, I was there. OMG am I that old !

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

You were born in 1930? So almost 100 now? I thought my 80 yr old mother was old.

@olufunkeidowu9931 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@robertplatte5700 11 күн бұрын

yes

@ronnronn55 Жыл бұрын

They didn't mention the subtle fiddling of prices. Such as when, on sale day, they boost the base price to make the sale price look more enticing.

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

Ya increase 20% then a week later put on sale 15% off.

@EliF-ge5bu 2 ай бұрын

So this is a story of technical innovation, societal norms changes, and consumerism's power in the U.S. It has a huge impact worldwide.

@roxanneherrman2107 Ай бұрын

Are you running for president?

@eunicestone6532 9 ай бұрын

As a very small child if you wanted shoes you went to a shoe store. By yhe time i was 10 the supermakets were starting to boom. We all loved it! The convenience was the best thing. Instead of going to many stores you could go to one. Now stores are a one stop shop. Get your oil changed while you buy a outfit and a pair of shoes and food for the week. The personal side of business us gone. I remember the neighborhood market. Mom and dad ran a credit there. They paid once a month. The store owner used to give a bag of penny candy for paying the bill in full. Then usually you started a new tab .

@zz449944 Ай бұрын

For the most part, all the little independent shops were FAMILY businesses. Mom and Pop and other relatives, handling only the goods that they knew. Yes, the personal side is gone, as are the family-run businesses that were once the backbone of society all over the world. A marriage was not just about gaining a husband or wife, but gaining family to work the family business or sometimes to merge two family businesses together. The nature of all businesses change once you hire the first outsider as an employee who expects a regular paycheck, whereas grandpa or the mother-in-law and especially the children worked basically for free in many cases.

@shawnkelly695 11 күн бұрын

Every store sold different things. Now 1 store sells everything. Sure shut down shopping malls and small stores

@ambersouthwick3509 Жыл бұрын

Wish it was back to small stores. Id take shop assistants and fresh food, over doing it myself in stores full of junk.

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

Just shop the outside skipping the isles full of junk.

@CUMBICA1970 Жыл бұрын

2:55 "It was time consuming from both sides..." Now imagine if today's supermarkets worked that way. Funny enough I experienced something like that in 2011 in the very day that massive earthquake hit Japan. It was like 2PM so I was at work in a factory but since we had a total blackout we called it a day. On the way home I stopped at a grocery store and it was packed. And since it had no electricity (btw even cellphone signals went off) they couldn't process the cash register as usual so it was done all with a calculator and handwritten receipt. The funniest thing was, since no product in the store had a price stamped in it (naturally you had the price tag in the shelves) for each single product at each cash register, kids (probably part-time high-schoolers) would dash to the correspondent lane and shelf and check the price and come back panting. I stayed in line for like 4 hours but really couldn't complain. The store's overwhelming effort to work things out was just so heartening.

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

Thankfully that wasnt in canada. Kids here learn about sex and genders not math.

@theresekirkpatrick3337 Ай бұрын

Americans can’t make change or do it the old fashioned way. Im 56 and learned prior to upc codes everything was taxable or not. Pencil and pad. Unfortunately most things in 🇺🇸 grocery stores include ingredients that other countries don’t allow. Even organic produce is bathed with chlorine solution. 🤮🤦‍♀️💩💩💩 Grow a garden It’s enjoyable and healthier than grocery corporations

@kamicrum4408 25 күн бұрын

@@shawnkelly695unfortunstely!

@MTheChequeGuy 2 ай бұрын

I miss Kmart.

@Phil_Melone Ай бұрын

Me too!!

@lachutequimarche8074 Ай бұрын

I’d been to a Kmart probably three times ever.

@Phil_Melone Ай бұрын

@@lachutequimarche8074lol probably three of the best times of your life!!! Were you lucky to be there during a blue lite special? I don't think I ever seen one.

@Phil_Melone Ай бұрын

@@BBSr-q2wwe were the top two customers!

@lachutequimarche8074 Ай бұрын

@@Phil_Melone Not sure what that is, so I guess not. I’m more of a Walmart fella

@raffinataonline 2 ай бұрын

Excellent documentary. Thank you!

@bullettube9863 11 ай бұрын

Refrigerators really changed the buying habits of Americans by offering a way to keep meat and dairy products fresh far longer. So instead of buying perishables daily they could be bought in bulk each week and kept fresh longer. Both of my grand-mothers resisted supermarkets and preferred the individual shops while my mother and her sisters all loved the supermarkets.

@russell2952 10 ай бұрын

9:00 - The 80% household vehicle ownership number seemed incredibly high so I looked it up and all I found were numbers around 60%.

@vintagesupermarkets5210 8 ай бұрын

That 5 seconds of historic footage of the bin # 224 rolling down the rollers and conveyor to the parcel pickup was incredible. Parcel pickup was very common in Eastern North America, especially in Canada. Nowadays it's practically disappeared but the odd place here and there still offers it.

@notpurrfect6397 2 ай бұрын

The last time I used the pickup roller bins was at Dominion at Yorkdale in North York thirty years ago. 😂

@vintagesupermarkets5210 2 ай бұрын

@@notpurrfect6397 wow that's something. It's completely gone from Ontario save for 1 store in Ottawa (Your Independent Grocer - that I've used in the past year) and 1 store in Pembroke (Metro franchise). There's still a few IGAs around greater Montreal with them.

@notpurrfect6397 2 ай бұрын

@@vintagesupermarkets5210 Now we have mega markets and walmart where you need a quarter just to unlock a cart 😊

@briangriffin4937 Ай бұрын

Safeway here had those beginning in 1967 and a clerk to load your groceries into your car. As an 11 year old I thought it was cool to watch the groceries take a rollercoaster ride from check stand to the delivery area outside. I wanted to hop in one of those totes and go for a ride! 🎢

@LucidDreamer54321 Жыл бұрын

If you need retail business historians, you should definitely hire a physicist and a mechanical engineer.

@menwaralanazi47 Ай бұрын

lol ... These 2 ladies identify as physicist & mechanical engineer

@crisismanagement 8 ай бұрын

In upstate NY, the story was that the supermarket drove out the Farmers Market.

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

People did that by supporting the wrong people. Now only commercial farms selling low quality garbage. Small farms about disapeared

@Andy_Babb Жыл бұрын

This is surprisingly more interesting than I expected

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

Some things sound exciting but boring. Then click something off the wall and not so bad.

@Andy_Babb 2 ай бұрын

@@shawnkelly695 100% lol I’m also pretty sure most people would find the majority of what I click on boring 🤷🏻‍♂️

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

@@Andy_Babb be surprised how many enjoy the same so called boring shows. Shows that make the mind think.

@Andy_Babb 2 ай бұрын

@@shawnkelly695 True, I’m into a lot of the ancient Europe/Egypt/Middle East historians - History Time and such. I do enjoy things that get me thinking. Fair point!

@jessehachey2732 19 күн бұрын

@@Andy_BabbYou should try the channel Tasting History with Max Miller here on KZfaq! He has this hybrid cooking/history show, he’s done dozens and dozens of episodes on medieval, Victorian, Egyptian, and Roman eras. He’ll make an ancient recipe, then the middle chunk of the show turns into a fun history lesson, so much so that when he flips back to the recipe and him trying it? You almost forget you were watching a cooking show 😅 He’s one of those passionate for history and has a knack for educating! At first I thought it would be boring and really not up my alley (two degrees in molecular medicine lol, bit of science nerd) but was I ever wrong, I’ve been binging his episodes!

@Andy_Babb Жыл бұрын

It’s really weird hearing an American voice calling a truck a lorry

@karenhollywood3523 9 ай бұрын

As an American who has many friends in the UK and been there a few times, I find British words and slang fascinating. I will use a word in conversation here that British folk use in conversation only if it is a word that they will understand without explanation. I just love the sound of their words. "Dodgy " and "cheeky" are my favorites. 😅 "Squirty cream " is great on top hot chocolate too!😎

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

Or a shopping cart a trolly lol.

@gregpendrey6711 Ай бұрын

Welcome to AI narrator

@shopsshire9282 11 ай бұрын

Buy local push back against Klaus Schwab and the WEF

@danielbernier9115 24 күн бұрын

I will not eat the bugs , ever lol

@tigercasey1554 Жыл бұрын

Scary scenario when computers decide what consumers eating...

@davesbainrps6909 10 ай бұрын

Like anything now

@alanaadams7440 2 ай бұрын

My grandpa and dad had a meat locker but sold candy milk and bread like a mini 7-11

@corinnehernandez4549 22 күн бұрын

What is candy milk?

@jessehachey2732 19 күн бұрын

@@corinnehernandez4549They’ve probably missed an apostrophe…”sold candy, milk, and bread” makes some logical sense…🤷🏼‍♂️

@IanSimpson-fv4kl Ай бұрын

I loved the trail of evolution & it brought back alot of nostalgia. Wow,I've become a dinosaur 🦕. Totally enjoyable documentary from start to finish. Bravo!!

@jameswillett7186 7 ай бұрын

King Kullen is actually considered the FIRST supermarket based on 5 criteria from the Smithsonian Institute.

@pambrown5382 Ай бұрын

And the invention of the paper bag was big. Prior to bags the groceries were wrapped. We have baggers now, back in the day there were wrappers.

@rubynelson1164 Ай бұрын

My parents brought groceries home in cardboard boxes.

@davesbainrps6909 10 ай бұрын

All we need is money to shop

@Andy_Babb Жыл бұрын

4:25 “collecting other shops”, i.e. Bought/Forced small shop owners out of business

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Жыл бұрын

I think 🤔 its 2nd times l see 👀 this remarkable wonderfulness documentary...thank you (Get.factual)....for sharing....supermarkets expansion is continually increasing every where and controlling markets ...especially in wealthy cities ...

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

Some cities dont have grocery stores. Those blue cities are losing stores daily.

@jazzkatt1919 11 ай бұрын

The color of salmon depends as much on the particular species as anything else. Brighter color does not necessarily mean that it's farmed fish or has been dyed.

@jessehachey2732 19 күн бұрын

Not only the species, but their location and ecosystem, ie. what they eat locally. Often, their diets will be reflected in the colour of the flesh. Flamingoes being pink because of the pink plankton they feed on is a great example. Even goes for eggs 🥚 and the yolk colour. Free-range organic chickens tend to feed on more plants with beta-carotene, giving the yolks a more orange colour vs. A paler yellow yolk. Also why people have been known to have a skin with an orange tint, if they consume extreme (as in excess) amounts of that same beta-carotene pigment…cool ain’t it!

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

If i enter and cant find a item i want i just leave. Drives me nuts having to search.

@pambrown5382 Ай бұрын

So much theft going on nowadays, I was just saying to my husband that maybe we need to go back to having everything behind the counter. Stores are locking things up now anyway...

@Lzrdman91 5 күн бұрын

We’re going back to square one 😂

@silvershadchan4085 Жыл бұрын

They forgot to mention the advent of lab grown meat.

@gabriellarosa5015 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video!!

@brootham9979 2 ай бұрын

“Women didn’t have jobs”!!!!!?????? Time to reframe - women were responsible for the home and family…….

@shawnkelly695 11 күн бұрын

This video is dumb. Women didnt have jobs? No women didnt have jobs. Women had kids and raised those kids. Cooked and cleaned and school etc. The day when kids grew up with respect and got jobs and had a family of their own. Now moms work and kids raised by strangers with no care for those children. Families are seperated and kids growing up useless. Miss the days when moms stayed at home. My mom didnt get a job until i was a teen.

@sinead2264 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting 😊

@sylviamiller9047 14 күн бұрын

Just found your channel thanks for the video!❤

@roxanneherrman2107 Ай бұрын

Back in my day, mid 70's, my mom would stop by the grocery store and hit the hot deli. Get a rotisserie chicken, a qt of goulash, coleslaw, and fresh dinner rolls! That was dinner in a bag that took her 10 minutes!! Something that everyone would eat, no leftovers

@corinnehernandez4549 22 күн бұрын

What is goulash?

@melissasalasblair5273 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@TigerDominic-uh1dv Күн бұрын

Very Nicely Done ✔ Thanks 😊

@MsLilsweets 5 күн бұрын

Amazing how far groceries have come in 100 yrs, wonder what they'll be like in another 100

@battleangel5595 9 күн бұрын

Fun fact! At age 11 I learned quite quickly learned how to drive a 1983 Nissan Pathfinder out of a fire lane and into a parking space. My mother had parked in the fire lane of a local Market Basket to get milk. Nailed the parking spot like a glove. Perfectly parked the beast. Learned the fun way that black and blue light specials also apply to Alexander's...

@oliverrojas3185 2 ай бұрын

An incredible accomplishment passing on this information. I better understand my parents, one of which, born during WW:II, who has a completely different appreciation of foods and their preparation.

@sharinaross1865 9 ай бұрын

Intriguing

@markcraven8386 15 күн бұрын

"Aw gee mom"...my mantra from my youth. LOL

@johnhingkung662 Жыл бұрын

Interesting documentary!

@get.factual Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment :)

@ShakespeareCafe 7 ай бұрын

Never heard a shopping cart called a trolley

@yurabeech5268 2 ай бұрын

Have you never been outside of North America?

@Dru1111 2 ай бұрын

Trolleys in Australia!

@martinjenkins6467 2 ай бұрын

You must be American, we always Called it a Trolley in Australia.

@shawnkelly695 2 ай бұрын

The other side of the world.

@barrywainwright3391 Ай бұрын

In the US a trolley car is something people road in in cities. Like the trolley cars in San Francisco.

@mtsbr78 Жыл бұрын

Documentário de excelente qualidade. Uma pena não estar dublado em português. Que venham as IAs de tradução/dublagem automática para a nossa satisfação.

@gabriellarosa5015 10 ай бұрын

Um resumo rápido e direto.

@karthikckrishna 5 ай бұрын

One of the best… thanks for the efforts

@aivaraslabokas7172 Жыл бұрын

Did somebody notice mirrors in the veggie/fruit section?

@ronnronn55 Жыл бұрын

And the warm coloured lights above the tomatoes.

@raffinataonline 2 ай бұрын

There usually were.

@jessehachey2732 19 күн бұрын

Probably a marketing tactic. They hire people who apply marketing tricks and study and research consumer habits and behaviour in grocery stores like a precise science! Why all grocery stores have the milk at the back (so you have to walk thru all the aisles and buy more) and why the bakery and awesome baking bread smells are located at the entrance but towards the back, to entice you to walk thru again. Hoping the smell will attract people in, and then encourage them to walk through. Mirrors probably give the illusion that there’s more produce than there is, making it look bountiful! There’s probably a link to how satisfying symmetry can be as well😉 Similar idea with lighting…why most fast food incorporates orange in their logos and paint decorating schemes (next to red and yellow), those shades have been scientifically proven to induce appetite, so I wouldn’t think it’s a stretch to imagine there’s a similar goal with lighting! Edit: They mention placement of the bakery, milk, produce sections at the 33:25 and 40:00 (ish) mark/timestamp, confirming my theory…and they double down on the field of behaviour psychology used in the industry at 37:00 (ish).

@bananatreefee 5 ай бұрын

Piggly Wiggly is the first self service grocery store in america!

@ablebaker1275 2 күн бұрын

Pigley Wigley Hinky Dinky, Beanos, are what I remember as a kid in Iowa

@kostihouse 11 ай бұрын

An interesting documentary, until the green propaganda and cricket eating started..

@timoteiafanasie4894 Ай бұрын

It was obvious

@dionysise5008 6 ай бұрын

The protestant spirit of innovation brought depression to the world

@blumobean 18 күн бұрын

Oh, how I wish A&P were still in business. The store brands were better than name brands.

@JanelleVocate-Ames 28 күн бұрын

43:41, FREE RANGE PRODUCE??? WOW never knew about those guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@SteveHartman-my9rg Ай бұрын

U 4got Horace/Jack Lynch who consolidated all A&Ps into the old Footers Cleaners n Dye works I think there were 28 A&Ps at one time in Cumberland, Maryland it was a Huge store. Then they built a new store at Greene Street then Lavale, MD then another in Cumberland, MD. A lot of people called him father of modern super mkt

@FTY13 17 күн бұрын

ALDI is all over the world we have one in my town on the southern coast of Australia

@mikeweizer3149 2 ай бұрын

Didn't metioned anything 'bout Walmart or Meijer or Sams Club or Costco though and how they effect supermarkets either, Here in the Cleveland Ohio area we have Giant eagle which is the biggest Save alot, Aldi's, Heinins, as well asThe Super Wal-Mart s and Meijers that I metioned!!!!.

@moose354 21 күн бұрын

Two chapters are missing that would have completed this documentary. First, there are store loyalty programs that began 100 years ago with trading stamps ( S&H green stamps, blue chip stamps) that have evolved into club cards targeted to individual consumers' purchasing history. The second is the warehouse stores like Costco, Sam's Clubs and BJs. Perhaps this file being a British production isn't aware of these two subjects.

@judithgrace9850 Ай бұрын

I shop online for home delivery.

@janicewebber5584 2 ай бұрын

I have friends who lived in Europe. You shop daily at the square that has the day's freshest things just harvested. Fish, eggs veg..never knew what was for supper because you'd buy what was at the peak. The local restaurants (in France, anyway) offered the menus based on the same principle. I'd love th live in parts of Europe. Old little towns that were self sufficient . Everything you'd need right there in little clustered shops & open air market's. Sigh...

@jessehachey2732 19 күн бұрын

Yeah? Try being disabled 🦽. Those little old towns probably wouldn’t be wheelchair accessible. At all. Odds are you can’t even wheel down an aisle at small shops, even if you manage to get past the doors and steps. They have no large teaching and research hospitals either, so you’d die. Guess it’s easy to discard the actual logistics of it all (meaning no, they are not self-sufficient), and reminisce or romanticize the parts you wish for 🙄 Goes to show how much people can’t see past their noses, or the bigger picture and take so many things for granted…

@dmac6004 Ай бұрын

Interesting how the Brits become experts in what they acknowledge as an American invention. Something it took them decades (by their own admission) to adopt. Given that this is about an American situation it would be nice to call "trolleys" "carts". They also missed A&P who possibly was the real push to make this national. Also the refrigerated fast freights to move the fresh produce.

@twitchbiddy6880 11 ай бұрын

I enjoyed the history part of this doco but not the preachy ‘climate change’ bit at the end. Where is the evidence that 1/3 of the world’s population already eat insects? Actually where is the hard evidence, not modelling, for a lot of the stats the guy in the beard and glasses spouted? Society is going the wrong way if production and services become more robotic and automated. It’s all about money- greater profits for the owners, not about more time for the consumer. I don’t want to be eating insects thank you - real whole foods for me - so it’s Farmers Markets, food co-operatives, my veggie garden and community gardens that I source the bulk of my food from. Besides, I thought the world’s insect population was in decline? I certainly don’t get as many dead bugs on my windshield like I used to. And when I do go to the supermarket I use the checkout not the self service so I can chat to the checkout operator, usually a high school student after school hours or a woman in school hours - these are perfect jobs for mums, kids, students, new immigrants and older women as they are usually part time and offer lots of different shifts. What jobs would they get if supermarkets go fully self service etc?

@LoveMusic-pd5iz Ай бұрын

I also worry about the direction more robotics and automation will take us. What will happen to people who don't have the ability to learn a job requiring more ability, the young person looking for their first job etc.

@davesbainrps6909 10 ай бұрын

No carbon no trees

@dionysise5008 6 ай бұрын

The longer you go back in time the better life was

@johnathandaviddunster38 Ай бұрын

Hitler and Stalin agree with you...

@MsHeaddy Ай бұрын

Future food selling will never be as perfect as the garden of Eden was

@jenniferdunn3560 21 күн бұрын

Supermarkets did not come to Ireland until the sixties.

@davidm4160 Ай бұрын

Not even one minute in, and a commercial?

@mariavarga9643 Ай бұрын

Our very own posening machine, the microwave, still alive and functional in our time.

@raimunddippon3120 Ай бұрын

Where can I buy those delicious locusts?

@biran44r Ай бұрын

we must resist FAST CHANGE...

@SuperSlimshady1 26 күн бұрын

16:43 whats a pram?!

@jamesmill5692 Ай бұрын

The refridgerator

@SteveHartman-my9rg Ай бұрын

Men worked 6 days a week 10 hours a day w no benefits or breaks

@strappaplank6017 Ай бұрын

Liv is completely bonkers

@julieDJTFP Ай бұрын

You lost me at eat insects. Yes, let's all eat unclean bugs.

@Lzrdman91 5 күн бұрын

Free range produce 😂

@johnnyrabenold6133 Ай бұрын

Not so sure about the 30s men being hypermasculine.

@Just1nHale Күн бұрын

OK, Am I the only one who clicked on this vid to see Liv Boeree?

@positively_broad_st3780 Ай бұрын

Just skipped right over A&P like it didn't exist...🙄

@WVgirl1959 Ай бұрын

It's a shame that this is video starts out so repetitive.

@henrietta1066 Ай бұрын

Job security?????

@Dmiller7239 Ай бұрын

Nice historical documentary about grocery shopping. Then the global warming bug eating screwballs come out

@garyfrancis6193 Ай бұрын

4 minutes in and this is such 🐮💩 I can’t bear to listen anymore.

@richardmccann8215 Ай бұрын

DEI ruins another promising project

@mickeybell8933 Ай бұрын

?????

@mariavarga9643 Ай бұрын

The girl narrator is a bit of a wacky , the young girl All about business and money, not the people.

@omerfbingol Ай бұрын

What a skewed narrative that almost tries to tell that all the major developments in science and technology happened because of the supermarkets 🤣 And all those "experts" in the field...