17 bucks for a full cart, and he lit up a smoke right there in the checkout line... those were the days

Such a nicer, slower time than we're in today.

We used to cover our text books with the paper from those bags! Anyone else? I miss the S & H green stamps

That guy in the hat looking at the can of beans thinking - There is no way I'm payin' 17 cents for that, no way.

Some of these customers were born in the late 1800's. Let that sink in for a moment. 👀

I wish grocery stores still played music like this instead of the incessant pop music that you can't get away from no matter what store you go in.

Back when music inside a grocery store was calming and relaxing. People looked calm back then

My dad used to work at a supermarket like this and he could support a family of 3 kids. He then became store manager and we bought a house about 50 miles north of NYC. It was a brand new development and our neighbors were a firemen, a teacher, a salesman, and one was even a doctor. We all just lived normal lives without showing off. I lived there from 2 until 13 and I still have pleasant dreams of that home.

I was 5 when this was filmed. I got dragged to the grocery store almost daily with my mother. The shoppers moved more slowly then, made eye contact with each other and greeted each other. In that respect, it was a much better time and worthy of being missed.

The best part about this video is nobody is walking around staring at or talking on a phone.

This is the closest thing to time traveling. I love watching these. Thank you.

I was 12 in 1972 and I remember the sight, sounds and unique smell of a grocery store like yesterday. Grocery stores were much smaller than today's stores.

I was 10 years old when this was filmed and remember it like it was yesterday. All those cigarettes out on display, was such an ordinary thing! My mom used to send me to the market with a shopping list that included a couple packs of Winstons for my old man, I was never questioned. All soda pop came in glass bottles, a giant bag of potato chips was 49 cents and a 2 pack of Hostess Cupcakes was 25 cents. 🙂

If you were around back then , even if just a kid , you know we’re the lucky ones .

The guy filming it is a time traveler, knowing exactly what to show us here in 2023.

I would pay $1,000 to be able to walk around that store for 20 minutes.

Filmed in March 1972 because when the guy was checking out I can just make out the TV guide from March 25, 1972 with Peter Falk on the cover. And the Family Circle magazine is the April 1972 edition.

This makes me so sad. I miss those days. Everyone looked and acted so normal. Such a different time.

The sound of the cash register took me back 50 years😊

1$ for a steak. Now I’m nostalgic for a time I didn’t even exist

Interesting to see the differences in 1972: - no plastic bags - manual register - no credit or debit cards - cash or check only - no candy or gum at register - no barcode scanner - separate scale to weigh produce - smoking in store - Open cigarette inventory (Cigarette Department at 7:13)

Also notice the lack of plastic packaging back then. Everything was in glass jars, glass bottles, tin/aluminum cans and paper boxes

Blows my mind how he lit up a cigarette in the check out line. And look at that register...it looks ancient. So cool how everything use to be. I was 4 years old in 1972. People use to never be in a rush back then. Today if you take out your credit too slowly people have daggers' in their eyes.

Totally lived in a different world back then, I am fortunate to have lived in it and remember it. Good stuff!

the younger cashier here is now as old as the gentlemen he was serving. life is fast.

Since this was filmed many things have changed. Most notably, sociopaths have seized control.

You know the thing that shocks me the most, is that men actually shopped, in my family, grandma did everything.

Did anyone sit underneath the cart like me and my brother? In the 80s Los Angeles had a grocery store called Alpha Beta and me and my brother both fit under the cart and we would stay there the whole shopping trip. Made it easy for my mom.

Ah 1972, when you could go to elementary school and not worry about getting your head blown off and road rage was two people honking at each other.

Can we get zapped back there! I was 11 years old, I want to be back there, I hate this world now....

Back when they treated You like a customer

I was telling my neighbors about how it used to be. 10 cents for can of biscuits. 25 cent can goods. 99 cent 2 liter coke cola. Name brand stuff, not generic. And let us not forget 50 cent per gallon gas. I had job at neighborhood Shellmart#12, and mind you, you earned that $3.15 per hour.

Wow, this takes me back to my past, I was born in 64'. People smoking in public, the cashier wearing a shirt and tie. The sounds in the store, bells on the cash register, paper bags, etc.

Watching this seeing how different things used to be makes me feel like we're getting screwed over today.

The guy bagging groceries paid for a house, a car and raised four kids with the money from that job.

This was 4 years before I was born. Life seemed much more simple back then. The cashiers actually had to know math and they were respectful and well dressed. Groceries were a lot cheaper. I bought 4 items a few days ago and spent $60! I can’t believe there’s cashiers and a bagger. Now you have to do everything yourself without the paycheck.

I wasn't even born I was born in 1974 but one of my brothers was born in 1972. Everything look so calm at the supermarket nothing like 2023. Rest in peace to the old folks with the shopping cars

I wish I could go back in time with my money now and I'd be like," The entire Grocery Store is on me, folks!" Enjoy!

I was born in 1989, 17 years before this but even as a small child in the early to mid 90s, going to the supermarket was such a fun adventure! I used to love going to Wegmans with my mom, but I’ve barely gone over the last few years. Now I’m an Aldi shopper. This video is AMAZING! The prices, the clothes, the CIGARETTE department … 😲KZfaq is the closest thing to a Time Machine that we’ll ever have.

This video from 1972 still has more clarity than some surveillance video captured in 2023.

When people didn't look like they just rolled out of bed to go grocery shopping!

No 500-lb. idiots racing around on motorized carts, crowds blocking isles or drugged-out spaceshots ripping up the shelves. The cashiers spoke English and could count change. Wouldn't mind going back to that time; I guess I just didn't appreciate it then. Hard to believe it was more than half a century ago.

I'm amazed at how many products were offered ...it was a great Era. Affordable living and happy people. I enjoy the cash register most!!!

Watching this makes me remember when I wanted to run home after school and see what I can invent or play with my neighborhood friends.

This channels hands down one of the best to come to if you're nostalgic or truly interested in how the past really was.

The music in the store is so much better than today.

These Films are very relaxing! If KZfaq would have existed back in 1972 who knows the type of vloggers shopping in those times we could have seen now! I remember going to the supermarket in the 80s and saw similar shipping experiences like this video. Nowadays, times are so different, you can never see a time capsule such as this one!

I would love to go back to this era but I definitely don’t miss the smoking indoors, everywhere

I started in the grocery business in 1969, retired in 2012, Oh the stories i could tell.

This truly brings me back to a time when the world was different! It's crazy how life is just so different. No masks no TikTok no stress life was good when this back then

I was 12 then..... in 1976 when I was 16 I became a bagboy at the local supermarket in Lorain, Ohio. It was a fun job. My only beef was going out into the cold snow to get more carts from the parking lot. Had to round them all up and bring them into the store. Took us nearly 5 minutes just to put on our heavy snow boots, coats, and gloves etc. I burned off a whole lot of calories, and was in great shape that's for sure...lol. That job bless me so much. I was quickly able to buy my first car. A 1965 Chevy Impala Convertible. Kids didn't mind working hard in those days. When I graduated in 1978 I had been working there for two years already and had a decent salary. I loved the 70's..... we were so free back then.....

I was a baby in 1972,I still can relate to calmer Grocery Stores like this when I was 5 & so on. Even in the 80’s Grocery Stores were more hassle free then they are today. Thanks for posting this video!

The KZfaq algorithm somehow brought me here but it was well worth it. It's crazy to think that even if someone was only 27 in this video they'd already be older than the average life expectancy in the United States right now. The two older gentleman probably have been gone for 30 or 35 years now. I'm an 80's baby but do remember a slightly more relaxed time when I was younger. I cannot even stand going shopping unless it's first thing in the morning or a little before closing.

😭😭😭 My heart aches for these times ...I was 4 years old when this was made but store were like this all thru the 70s. I miss this so much ....

The cash register is awesome! Around this time, I used to work at a well known store in Ann Arbor called Goodyear's. It had a lot of imports and was pretty upscale. It had been founded by German immigrants. It also was outfitted with pneumatic tubes from every department that led to the central office area. The sales person would put the money, or credit request in the container and then whoosh it up to me, in the office area. I would make change from the tray where the containers landed, and send the money back to them in the container. There were approximately 20 of these pneumatic tubes, and sometimes, the containers would come out and bounce off unto the floor. Especially during the holiday season when it was very busy. I also had to go look up their credit account before I could approve their credit purchase. And also, I would get notes from the sales people asking for an aspirin, or other requests/communications. I miss the simplicity of that system, for sure.

Those days are long gone! Thank you for posting this video! Memories is all we have now.

watching this made me tear up a little,..such a different time than today,..everything seemed slower,..I loved see the Brach's candy,..that was my grandmothers favorite

Listen to the nice music they used to play in stores. This is what they took from us.

I was 7 or 8 years old depending when that was filmed (born middle of the year). The biggest thing I miss? S&H Green Stamps! There was nothing like seeing the cashier dial up the number of stamps your mom would be getting and handing them to you. And then running home to paste them in the book! ❤ Now if only we could all decide on the sewing machine or the rowboat 😂 (points if you get that reference! 😉)

Really enjoyed watching this.

Remember the self-serve Brach Candy stations they used to have in Gro. Stores in the '70s

That cash register brought back memories of my first job, in high school, in 1978-79. I worked in an older grocery store. The newer stores had more modern registers. I loved being a grocery store cashier.

Yup was born in 1965 and went shopping with Mama sat right up front in the 🛒 as a toddler she bought a whole lot of groceries back then for $25-$30 for a family of 6 . Wished we can bring those days back again 🌷💛

I remember going to the grocery store with my mom when I was a young kid in the mid 70s and she’d spend about $100 and leave with about 3 full grocery carts full of groceries, enough to last about the whole month and we were a family of 5 at the time. I vividly remember this because at the time, I thought $100 was an extremely large amount of money and also about a week ago, I was telling a younger friend of mine that there was a time when cigarettes and porno mags were just sold out in the open. They weren’t behind the register and this kinda freaked him out.

I think it's safe to say that these two men shopping have "shuffled off this mortal coil."

If they ever invent a time machine I want to volunteer.... imagine all the great rock bands you'll get to see! 1972 man!

That was a nice blast from the past. Back in the day when people focused on what they were doing and on each other instead of always being on a phone.

Love the checkout. That cash register was the kind I ran in the 70's. My boss at one store called the register a Jewish piano. He was Jewish. It was exactly like this one except it had 4 cash drawers. Each user had their own drawer. Also the produce scale at the register really brought back memories as did the paper grocery sacks.

My Goodness! 1972. That was the year the Oakland A's took the series from Cincinnati! I was 10 years old. I was reading comics that cost 15 -20 cents each! Pinball machines were one game for a dime and 3 games for a quarter. Gas was 25-30 cents a gallon. What a time that was!

I was 7 years old and still remember the sounds the big clunky register made and the smell of the paper bags. The baggers were skilled at placing your items in the tall paper bags and were always careful to put the fragile items on top. Such a quiet peaceful time when no one was angry or in a rush. Those days are gone forever.

I wish supermarkets still played music like this.

wow seems like back then when you made a living you could actually live

So cool to see these time capsules. I was born in 1965 I vividly remember going to the local town A&P with my parents in the early 70's. Every time I grind up some eight O clock coffees that wonderful smell transports me back.

This is great. Those cash registers, classic, I love it !

Kinda looks like the store Archie and Edith shopped at when Archie was laid off in the 1970s. The episode where he took a hammer to some of the canned goods to get the discounted price!

Love 💕 these video's bring back those good old days I think we would all be alot happier 👍😊

A time when cashiers actually had to use mathematics.

As a child of late 60"s and all throughout the 70"s I can remember going to grocery store with mom can remember on Friday if we went to fedmart with mom sometimes we would get a treat after shopping. To stop in the little restaurant area and have something like a doughnut or something similar. It was a big treat for us. Also if I stayed the night on Thursday during the summer. I would get to go on Friday morning with my Grandpa he did the weekly shopping for grandma and him. It was neat to get up early on Friday morning have breakfast of fruitloops this was in 1973 until 77 can remember Grandpa staring up the truck and he and I would go to food basket around 8:30 because they did not open until 9 am. So we would be the only vehicle in the parking lot. Well just a little before 9 you would see one of the employees unlock the door and turn on the lights and we would go in Grandpa was sometimes the only customer in the store. These were when things like grocery stores close at 9 pm or other stores would be closed on Sunday it was different times. I will say glad I had the privilege of going with Grandpa and although he has been gone since 1977 I can still have very clear memories of being with him riding in his truck going to Food basket

I learned how to check on those same registers in 1973..I was 17 and now im retired with 50 years in that industry

I was 18 and already two years into my grocery career when this was filmed. I had just progressed from bagger to checker/stocker. We all had the old Garvey price markers hanging like tails on our belts and our thumbs were blue from the ink. I used to call the chore of sweeping "wiping butts" because the floor was littered with cigarette butts.

Wow! The old S&H Green stamp machine above the cash register sure brought back great memories! Kids today will never know the pleasure of saving up books all year long to buy Christmas gifts at the Green stamp store. Well, that's what mom and dad did with them anyway.

To think a full cart now is well over hundreds of dollars, these videos are truly a Time Machine of sorts.

Filmed in glorious 16mm film. Looks so much more alive than would recordings made with contemporaneous tube-based video cameras. Note the harsh fluorescent lighting, with banks of tubes packed close together. I was 10 at that time. While I, like many of my cohort, look back on those days with nostalgic affection, I temper those feelings with the realization that the more care-free life of youth is likely to imbue the world of the time with almost magical qualities. Those shoppers would likely have said how badly things have gone to hell in 1972 compared to the years of their own childhood and adolescence. Yeah. Nostalgia is a potent emotion. But even if gilded by the colored perceptions of very different life circumstances, a wonderful emotion nonetheless! 😊

Must have been men’s night at that store lol. Love the sound of those old cash registers, brings back memories!

It sure reminds me of the grocery market in my neighborhood in NYC that closed because of rent hike. I cried for months and still get choked up thinking about it. It played great music. Although they have other locations, the original one was one of a kind and felt like home. There is one other store that looks a lot like this one in the video and I hope it stays open forever. My heart can't take another original loss. It's hard enough so many mom an pop stores, where the owners knew you, are now gone.

Brings back memories of shopping with my grandfather. He took forever! God bless him, he'd eat a bag of cookies before even getting up to the register! I miss you Pop-pop!

This video is so relaxing and relaxing to watch. ❤

This is when cashiers had to really work they had to look at the prices and then enter it on register one by one and every register had a bagger and they push the cart to your car and put the groceries in you trunk for you and usually get tipped 50 cents and they were happy .

It is strange to look back how most Grocery stores put everything out . even cigarettes there was more trust and respect .

All those sounds, that don't exist anymore: the opening of the paper bag, the ringing up of each price on the cash register, the drawer opening and closing. There were also smells: you could always smell the coffee in an A&P or that really strong smell in the butcher's department that wafted through much of the store. And then that part of the store where those two strongest smells in the store mixed together. And yes, there would be one man, often the manager, smoking a cigar. So strange that all of that is gone. It goes away before your old age. And at death even the memory evaporates.

Oh, I forgot, the store workers all dressed up every day like they were all managers. Nice pants, botton shirts, ties.

4:14.... I think the grocery bill was $17.00 !! Same as Costco today for ANY 2 items !! Wonderful

Grocery shopping now is much different than back then. Was not born yet in early 1972 yet, however I can definitely see the difference.

So glad I found this channel. These are fun to watch

I would love to go back in time to taste the food back in 1972. ❤

Back then, someone even bagged up your groceries and placed them in your car for you.

When you didn't have 50 different flavors of pop tarts and 50 different variations of chips. Lol

This Reminds Me When I Was A Kid And I Go Shopping With My Mom And Dad Man When This Was Filmed I Was 5 Year's Old I'm 55 Now Any Moon's Ago Great Looking Back At The Good Old Day's ✌️👍👋

I was 3 and my family just moved to Shreveport, Louisiana. Some of these sounds and views woke up memories I didn't even know existed.

I want to hear music played in supermarkets again. And I want the term "grocery store" to make a comeback.