Grocery Shopping in 1971

[petek]

I thought it was odd not a woman to be seen in the film. I never remember seeing a man working as a grocery cashier back in that day and it's still not super common. The guys did shelf stocking, bagging and toting out to your car or off the conveyor into your trunk.

 

[bradfordwhite]

men only

Yes, I agree about the men only observations. Men shopping and men only working the register. No idea. I don't think it was planned that way. This seems more like an established neighborhood store vs. a newly built suburban shop.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I’m often surprised at the number of men shoppers at the store I work at, then again, me and four other men work as checkout guys…

— Dave

 

[sudsmaster]

This thread reminds me.

 

I need to go grocery shopping on Monday.

 

Usually it's Costco. Sometimes Safeway.

 

Recently defrosted the chest freezer, and since then have been digging through it and am now working my way through older frozen stuff I forgot I had. Found a large ham in there, LOL.

 

I am hoping that egg prices after Easter will start to go down to more reasonable levels.

 

 

[petek]

Luckily we have a small/medium size ish grocery store built in the 50s about 3-4 blocks from our house and for that I'm thankful because I despise more and more having to trudge through a super size store . I want to get in and get out as fast as I can. Was watching this video last night... quite interesting

 

[jamiel]

This sounds like they're bewitched by Amazon...except the Amazon Fresh stores are failing badly. They're likely to write them off and close them up in the next quarter or so.

 

[bradfordwhite]

Safeway 1980 store

Guys in short shorts, ladies in colorful dresses,
food with bright color price stickers applied with a pricing gun,
and the Utz brand potato chips

 

[qsd-dan]

Short shorts, tube socks, and pornstaches. Soon to evolve into mullets, acid washed jeans, leather jackets, and mohawks. I remember those days (barely), they were weird for the most part.

 

For women, it would soon evolve into linebacker style shoulder pads and fried curly hair. The teenage girl style was just horrendous but some of the mid 20's to mid 30's women pulled off the mature/conservative look quite nicely.

 

 

 

[bradfordwhite]

#66

I know what you mean. I like the 80s but when I say that I really mean 1975 up until about 1987. After that, things just got ridiculous.

Big hair became HUGE angry hair. Music became louder but annoying. Movies weren't as interesting. Interior decor lost it's charm. The fun was gone. The class was gone. It was a time that was just big for the sake of being big....and corrupt.

And from there up until about 1993, it was a time of upheaval, war, and recession.

 

[bradfordwhite]

More scenes, Muzak and commercials for your shopping pleasure.