Supermarket 1958

Ah, the days before smash and grab.

Before twerking in the aisles.

Before those stupid mini-carts that said "customer in training" getting in your way.

Before non-stop commercials over the loudspeakers.

5:57 marker: 75 cents a pound for rib eye

The good old days before diversity!

The only words in your life: Captain Fantasy

FRESH BREADS N CAKES

beneath the reaches of sound

At 2:00, there are two trucks; one, Arden Milk, was a local Los Angeles dairy that is now named The Arden Group, while the other, S&W Fine Foods, a wholesaler of canned fruits and vegetables, later became Del Monte.

At 3:19, you can see they actually had a stockroom in the back; no “just in time” deliveries back then, with all stock on the shelves.

I was born in '56. I frequently long for those days.

and what about food that was actually good for you?

At 6:26, grapefruit are 2 for 39¢.

WE'RE GETTING $30 A POUND FOR RIBEYE ON THE FARM. NO ONE BATS AN EYE.

At 7:08, we see both Birds-Eye and Pictsweet frozen vegetables. Both frozen food companies still in business, although Birds-eye is now owned by ConAgra.

At 7:28, we see that the store actually had a guy painting their in-store signs! No wonder there was full employment back then.

They had a pretty diverse staff.

...and that bologna was 49¢ a pound!

At 8:40, I see that if you bought a 6-pack of Dad’s Root Beer, you got a free kite... quite an inducement.

good old days

Check out the 7-Up delivery truck At 8:57... those cartons of soda were out in the open. They would probably be ripped off in that neighborhood today so fast, your head would spin.

I'd give almost anything to be living in the 40s and 50s. Technocratic fascism in a country full of sodomites, man-bun bums and blue haired mentally ill tattooed degenerates fucking sucks!

Back when money had values.

I think my local Grocery store is intentionally playing the absolute most gawd-awful music so intelligent people will hurry through.

The sheep not so much.

The noise they play is intolerable

The music they play here depends upon the time of day... in the early mornings, up until about 10:00 a.m., they play stuff that the geriatric set grew up with, 60’s rock. After that, until about 4:00 p.m., it’s 80s stuff. At night, it’s more stuff from the late 90s to the late 2000s. It’s all geared to who’s shopping at the time, by age.

I remember going to the market with my mom and my brothers.

We would buy fresh fruit and go to the park.

We'd wash the fruit at the water fountain and eat it before playing.

Nowadays, you can't get fresh, ready to eat fruit. You have to wait days before the fruit is even ripe.

Everything is now done for the convenience of the store, not the customer. Obviously-unripe fruit that was picked far too early, milk that is homogenized so that it can remain saleable for up to three weeks (and scars your arteries when you consume it), meat that is almost at the point of spoilage when it is put in the case (especially hamburger).

Don’t get me started on the self-checkouts. The first thing I did when my local supermarket put them in was to ask the manager what my discount was going to be. He looked at me with his mouth open, then I explained to him that, since the store was saving considerable money by not hiring a cashier and forcing me to do the work of that now-missing cashier, I wanted to know what my discount was, now that I had to work for the supermarket. I told him that the day they went cashier less, I would stop trading there, and what’s more, that everyone I could influence would do the same. Of course, he said the decision to put in the self-checkouts “came from corporate”, as if that absolved him of pushing back against it. I now do most of my shopping at a smaller market with actual human cashiers,

Self-check is an easy way to steal.
Just slide a few items attachef to the one you are scanning...
One employee watching 20 self check lanes...easy pickins!

Beautiful and serene. No niqqars.

Many of the brands displayed are still in business.

Thanks for the great video, OP! Grocery stores can be fascinating.