Retro grocery store

Step back in time to 1980s grocery stores! From barcode scanners to in-house brands, they paved the way for major retail transformation. See inside these 80s supermarkets and what foods they might be selling.

Take a look back at the kind of aisles, counters and checkouts American shoppers used to encounter at vintage 1950s grocery stores when shopping for food, toiletries and more!

Interior of Northland Foods, Thief River Falls, MN. From the scrapbook, "L.B. Hartz, This is Your Life" and the collection of Pennington County Historical Society.

Like advertising, packaging appeals to our emotions and directs our attention to specific features, while distracting attention from others.

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hand painted butcher signage | Hand Painted Grocery Store Signs

While most of us grew up with supermarkets and shopping malls already existing; some of us remember the family-run grocery stores where your options were often limited. Others might even have had the chance to grow their own food, but once general stores grew bigger and became more convenient, there was no way back. Still, the consumerist lifestyle as we know it didn't happen overnight, and we got where we are now gradually.

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