Supermarket Time Portal 1971 | Grocery Shopping with Muzak

[@ournostalgicmemories]

I finally had a moment to reupload this in 4:3 ratio. Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJybnmqhmMedkLs😙

[@andrewm1660]

One thing missing here, something that used to be common in front of grocery stores but that I don't see much of anymore. Those kiddie horse rides, the one you put a quarter in and it moved back and forth. Those seem to have faded out.

[@SK-bb6ms]

Yes! I was thinking of that. Also, there were those heavy standing ashtrays with sand, near the doors. However, people would smoke while shopping, throwing the butt on the floor with a foot smear to put it out, Lol!

[@beberle9641]

Ride Sandy the horse for a penny I think that was her name?

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

No insurance company in North America will permit those now!

[@morticia981]

It was a dime back then! And now I officially sound like my dad, who constantly talked about nickel candy bars.

[@bernlin2000]

Another victim of frivolous lawsuits I'm sure. One kid gets too energetic on those things and slams their head on the pavement, blames the store...and you know the rest. 😵‍💫

[@MrGchiasson]

Aside from prices...I noticed two wonderful things: 1. All the shopping carts had four wheels that all turned in the same direction. 2. More than two checkout lanes were open...at the same time!

[@sicfrynut]

cashiers had to know all the items or use a checklist AND type in everything. pretty roomy as well. no self checkout lines. 5 oranges for 79 cents.

[@davewanamaker3690]

My old hometown grocery store had two checkout lanes in 1971. Still, that's one more than Walmart here in Altoona has running at any one time.

[@gailsmith3581]

You need to stop! Hilarious!😆😅🤣

[@manictiger]

Food-to-customer ratio was better. The way the shelves go empty so fast continues to hint toward a future famine, like how Earthquakes come only after we've already been warned by smaller tremors.

[@lovesmusic36]

@@sicfrynut They also had to know how to count back change. I wonder how many people of this generation know what that expression means.

[@kevindarrell3500]

I’m hiding in my bedroom watching because my wife thinks I’m crazy watching this. I can’t help it. This brings me back to my childhood when everything was AOK👍 Heyy👍😎

[@robinlanier6886]

Same reason here. To escape from today's bull💩!!

[@BonesBrigader]

Terrible that we have to be ashamed at something like that

[@veronicajackson1674]

Awe watch with your wife she may see why you like watching them you can be crazy together LOL

[@maryjeanglenn2486]

Yes

[@khj8716]

I was actually trying to climb into my phone screen. Couldn't do it unfortunately.

[@Johncourt409]

All the soft drinks were in glass bottles in those days. Man they tasted so much better to me than drinking out of plastic or aluminum. I remember helping my grandparents take the used coke bottles back to the store to get money back. Those were the days.

[@mrcoldshower2823]

2 cents a bottle, i would pick them up for candy money. a win win bottles recycled & store got the money back!

[@robinlanier6886]

They were heavy too.

[@psychosneighbor1509]

Also made with real sugar and not high-fructose corn syrup.

[@MollyT119]

You can still get the REAL deal with real sugar in the glass bottles...Mexican Coke and Pepsi. 😉

[@strawberryseason]

By 1971, they had soft drinks in aluminum cans. That appeared mid-to-late 60s as I recall. BUT the ubiquitous plastic bottles of today had not come yet. You are right that soft drinks were in bottles still to a large extent in the early 70s.

[@sodapopinski690]

I remember working as a stockboy and this old lady wanted to buy a half a head of lettuce. I told her she had to buy the whole head. She then demanded to see the manager. I went through the double doors to the 'employees only' section and told the manager ''some cranky old hag is demanding to buy a half a head of lettuce''. I heard a noise from behind me, turned around and she was standing right behind me looking angry. So, I said ''and this nice young lady would like to buy the other half''.

[@Whateva67]

Nice save soda 😎

[@codyluka8355]

Good save...lol

[@OutyMan]

You had me for the first half.

[@11dsw]

Nice save…funny too.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Funny. :)

[@FreshRose-z3s]

I was a small child in the 70's and I remember when grocery stores were like this. My mom would drop me in the cart and we were off to an adventure. Today,. September 21st, would have been my mom's 86th birthday. Happy birthday, Ma.

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

i remember getting too big for the kid seat in the cart.. thats when the REAL fun begins, clinging to the front of the cart. feet on the bottom rack.. holding on for dear life as mom whizzed the cart around from one aisle to the next..

[@dr.bunterhidenbrobruh5502]

Happy birthday to her! My wife's birthday is also Sept 21 but she was born in '70.

[@rricci]

@@ripvanwinkle2002 10 years ago, I was shopping with my roommate's daughter. We got the cart that looks a car. I started steering wildly, saying "Hey, slow down, Mari!" She was laughing non-stop. I wish I had my own kids. I think they would've loved having me as a dad.

[@metrotek5]

Happy birthday, Mom

[@wisegal88]

💕💐

[@maximilianoferrer6841]

Hard to believe this was more than 50 years ago. Time sure flies by.

[@maximilianoferrer6841]

I wouldn’t be born in 1974 until another 24 years, it would’ve been nice to spend some time back in those years, just by how things seemed simpler.

[@765lbsquat]

Wasn’t simpler then. Still had hookers and drugs

[@DissentingTirade]

I cant believe the story your tellin me, is macabre

[@55tumbler]

I miss the 7 up candy bars

[@ntal5859]

@@maximilianoferrer6841 Wow glad your math is so bad, The film is 1971... 3 years before you were born.

[@ph6652]

It’s great people filmed things like this so the following generations could see how simple life was then, and how hectic life is now. I vote for the old days!! Lived them, loved them!

[@anns.9443]

DEFINITELY!!!

[@Hy-Brasil]

funniest thing is people only thought life was complicated back then. i'm an 80s baby and would gladly go back in time to the 60s or 70s. sure i would be expected to wear dresses and pantihose or be discouraged from working full time away from home. but i would gladly take that over today's chaotic utter nonsense and irrational hatred for anything and everything in general.

[@williamcameron1137]

OMG! The LEGGS display! I remember that and I was born in 1973. Great nostalgia. Thanks.

[@sonofhibbs4425]

Used to love that big egg. They were such a common household item people would do crafts with the plastic egg packaging. Then to cut down waste, they only used the top portion of the egg. I think that was the beginning of the end for L’eggs. I remember people saying they were disappointed not to get the full egg!

[@ShortCrypticTales]

born in 1977 here and remember that

[@lincolnparc8897]

Yes! My mother 💖 used to collect the plastic eggs to make Easter toys out of them. 🐇🐣"Nothing beats a great pair of Leggs" I remember the ads took

[@DVD927]

Yep! L’eggs! We used to do so many crafts with those plastic eggs.

[@jpalberthoward9]

Yeah, and the models they used in the commercials had some legs, too! And, you could say that because political correctness was 20 years away.

[@venanciahopkins5035]

I grew up in the seventies, remembering being a little girl going grocery shopping with my daddy. We would go grocery shopping on the weekend when he was off from work. My mom would put a cute little dress on me. If she went with us, she would put on a nice dress or pants suit with her makeup on and her hair fixed nice. Everyone looked nice to go shopping back then. All the lanes would be open and yes the muzac would be playing lol! My daddy would sit me in the front of the cart with the shopping list my mom made out in her handwriting. He would be scratching out everything he got with his pen. I remember everything being so neat and tidy and the shelves well stocked. We would get in line he would always get me some candy or a little toy by the cashier counter. There was the cashier and the person who bagged your groceries. Everyone was so nice and helpful. The adults acted mature and knew what they were doing. It was a completely different time and a better time at that. Now I hate going shopping in Walmart. I miss those days.

[@michah321]

I remember going with my mom to AP and it was pretty nice, but the big store, it was like today's Walmart, the lines were unGodly long, the cashiers had to enter everything. No scanning, no self check out, no debit card or Google pay, fewer choices I like it better today.

[@rubyparchment5523]

Things wiped out at my suburban DC stores: the Spanish coffee I like. The flavor of energy drink I prefer. Amy’s frozen vegan meals. At Walmart, the entire Rubbermaid aisle is cleared - u can’t buy a basin, trash can, laundry basket. No way.

[@etzerdlasgaudistuben5300]

so beautiful, had to cry

[@chloel.8007]

What a sweet memory ❤❤ thank you for sharing

[@beeinthehive]

I had similar experiences in those days as a child. People we're far more lacked and friendly. I never once saw a Karen or worried about violent mass shootings. Everyone, from child to adult had self-control and tolerance, and was certainly more respectful. Sure, we didn't have the internet, but you can't miss something of which you had no comprehension, so it was no biggie. It was a great time to be a kid.

[@latinavalentina3898]

As much as I love videos like this, I'm always torn between happy memories and deep melancholy, wishing I could just imagine hard enough to have those times back again 😣

[@heatherronan]

Yes! You put into words perfectly the way I feel when I watch these videos or think about those days: the 70s, the 80s, even the 90s. Everything started to go downhill in our society after Sept 11 but it's really accelerated in the past 10 yrs. I long for those simpler times so much that it physically hurts sometimes, especially in the last couple years for obvious reasons...and it feels like it's just going to get worse and worse from here on out.

[@commentingisawasteoftime7195]

There's a golden age bodybuilder who just passed named Ric Drasin. He responded to a similar comment on his appearance on Cher's variety show by basically shrugging and saying "different eras".

[@rockabillylaker]

Same. I grew up in the early to mid 90s, In my opinion, those were the last years of "simpler times". We still played outside a lot, rode bikes, read comics, baseball cards. Video games only took you so far. You beat a game in an hour then, what?

[@JKBelle]

@@rockabillylaker yeah the FF of 9/11 changed everything and then 19 years later the FF of Covid 19 changed everything again.

[@latinavalentina3898]

@@heatherronan You are so right. I know that everyone always misses their childhood and each generation thinks things aren't like they used to be, but every so often, things change so much that it isn't just a "generational thing". In our case, the internet made such a difference in our society, that things are unrecognizable from 30 years ago. Mainly for the worse, IMO 😔

[@thevozz]

I grew up in the 70's..this was such a wonderful time to live. Sometimes it's kinda hard to watch because you yearn for those times again. But hey at least we have KZbin to bring us back.

[@g.m.5395]

👍👏😊

[@ramencurry6672]

The supermarket I remember in a small suburb from the 70s is still there. Also across the street, the same Burger King and McDonald’s is also still there from the 70s. Even the same mom and pop pizza shop down the street is still there too but I assume different owners. When I fly in to visit, it does have a time travel feel to it

[@alandale2182]

​@@ramencurry6672Shoppers actually got dressed up to go shopping back then.

[@robt5818]

It's brilliant that someone thought to film this bit of daily routine. It brings back great memories!

[@tam1729]

❤️

[@wanghotangho5803]

This and videos like it are PRICELESS and a true time capsule. Far more than old movies or tv shows. Looks mundane like your average trip to a grocery store except you’re 50 years back in time. I bet these people were just thinking of how they were gonna spend their evening and what to do tomorrow.

[@EphemeralProductions]

For the guys is was most likely thinking about work and for the women, thinking about house stuff and stuff about the kids. Just how it was back then! A lot more “old time family style” than it is now

[@sarahshouse1890]

@@EphemeralProductions ecactly!👍

[@babyg8662]

Yes, it makes me a little verclempt!

[@Capnbuttchicken]

Who was gonna be on carson?

[@harryhagan5937]

I imagine they would go home and turn on the brain roaster TV; just like all the way back to ca, 1950.

[@joehill8014]

As a time traveler who has been in a grocery store back in 1971, I can say for a fact that the stores were cleaner and the people more polite.

[@jja1483]

And purchasing power was way higher😏

[@VolkswagenNut1969]

Absolutely true!

[@EphemeralProductions]

If only it could be like that again

[@craiglangley1478]

Joe, where have you been? Haven't seen you since 1896.

[@noahhyde8769]

Things have not gotten better the more that so-called 'progress' has been made. But then...mold, cancer and toenail fungus 'progress,' too, so it's not always good. The old world of 1971 was LIGHT-YEARS better than the current one -- on most counts, quite frankly. NO one who's even remotely self-honest and self-respecting could possibly argue otherwise.

[@sqlcomp]

I love these old videos - makes me want to go back in time to simpler times without all this technology!!

[@sunniertimer598]

Isn't it ironic, technology was supposed to make our lives so much simpler and more efficient.

[@keithstringer1140]

It’s crazy to think the little babies in the carts are in their 50’s now

[@joseh3564]

Keith: Yep, and I'm one of those.

[@foxbasealpha]

I was born that year and can still fit in a cart!

[@orchids3332]

Not 50 yet! July 1972. For the next few weeks I'm only 49. 😉

[@jchisholm1968]

Shopping Trolley! Lol

[@jameshoopes6467]

Me. 😔

[@Schulz1362]

There's something strangely satisfying about watching this. I was 9 in 1971, my mom dressed like she was going somewhere important, did her makeup and made sure her hair was perfect before we went anywhere.

[@andrewm1660]

I remember my mom and so many women would wear those thin head scarves when it was windy to protect their hair. I miss walking around the grocery store with my mom as a child, with no worries about costs or calories.

[@Sabres16]

I was also 9 in 1971,and i agree it is very satisfying to watch. I work in a grocery store now and always try to be as helpful and friendly as possible.

[@lifewithdenturestoldbytracyj]

I was 4 and if my sister and I went with her we were put in neatly pressed dresses and patent leather shoes just to go to the grocery store or to any store including the 5 and Dime. I remember being 5 or 6 and going to The Terminal Tower in Cleveland to meet my dad for lunch on weekday afternoon, we were in our Sunday best complete with gloves, hat and jacket. It was a big event to meet him for lunch.

[@jrus690]

The only thing that really is getting troublesome is the Tattoos, COVID doubled them, and to a certain extent the piercings. Hair coloring so far is not bothering me, adds character. Even in the early 2000's, things were still largely like this scene. On the other hand, that was actually 20 years ago, time flies.

[@JTcadillac]

One example of why divorce rates were lower

[@FSAPOJake]

Anyone else love the sound quality of orchestral music from this time period? It's much higher quality than what you'd hear in the 30s to the 50s, but it's not as clear as a modern recording. It's right in the middle, almost giving it a dream-like quality.

[@muziklvr7776]

I've been putting music like this in my MP3 player for 20 years when I grocery shop.

[@GraniteStateVictoria]

It kind of sounds like cassette tapes.

[@trumpetman514]

I could watch this video, and others like it, all the time. I was 12 in 1971. I used to go grocery shopping, with my mom, every Wednesday evening. This brings back a flood of wonderful memories. I miss my parents. God bless the person that made this film. Thank you.

[@schkaren]

I feel the exact same way…

[@btinsley1]

i hear ya bro....me too

[@dogsareprecious4842]

Me tooo !!!!

[@lorettatayor5840]

yep, i was 14 in 1971. you dressed up to go to the grocery store. Gosh, i miss those times when everyone was mature and polite!!!

[@dirtwhisperer658]

A friend of mine worked in a grocery store when we were in school. Late 70's. There was a wooden catwalk above the produce that was used for maintenance of the lights etc. He took me up there one night and you could see the people shopping below. When they picked up a vegetable he would squeak "pick me I'm fresh". It was so funny when they would start looking around. Ahh this brought back a lot of memories. Those were simpler times back then.

[@kirnpu]

That's too funny!

[@katherinefuller5267]

That’s absolutely hilarious. Such innocent fun!

[@bubby372]

I've worked for a supermarket chain now for over 48 years. I have seen it all. Have to laugh out loud at some of the comments. How true, especially the one about how many checkouts are open and no one is wearing their pajamas. Thanks for posting this video. Glad I saw it today because I'm due back to work tomorrow from vacation. Now maybe my first day back won't suck so much. :)

[@magicmaker15]

Yes, sad how being a grocer has gone from something that people regarded very highly as a career, now we are just the next person for Karen to yell at when her coupon doesn't scan.

[@drcornelius8275]

Yes, but did you ever use a can stamper for pricing?

[@chrissanders3119]

I’ve worked in grocery stores for 45 years. You’re totally correct.

[@vanthosanasthasia6333]

I was agreeing with you up until you started trashing millennials. Check yourself on that. My "staycation" is when I finally get a hard-earned week (maybe two if everything like staffing levels and business of the season is just right) paid off of work. I'm too broke to travel, and didn't get to really plan anything because I'm overworked, so I just enjoy my time off at home. It's hard earned and more than half my job is physical work. Maybe you wouldn't have such a bitch of a time getting a non-degree job that you like if you didn't trash the people who came up into the same economic conditions you described. Besides having to find an existence in such conditions, I've also had to lose friends to the two wars our generation got sucked into. One thing above all, we don't hire soulless, bitchy, social media addicted, unmindful zoomers.

[@margarethoughton9993]

@@drcornelius8275 ka-chick ka-chick ka-chick 💕💕I can hear it now!

[@waynevia6976]

This is awesome. We need more early 1970's.

[@lisalee2885]

You should search the Kmart ones. That's back there in the day

[@DeathShamen2182]

Back when this country had some class.

[@efficiencygaming3494]

I think it's actually remarkable how constant the grocery shopping experience has remained since 1971. Sure, the music is different and the signage and equipment have all been updated, but the experience of walking around with a shopping cart and going from aisle to aisle hasn't changed much.

[@ShastaOrange]

And it was still a new-ish thing back then. The grocery cart was invented in the '30s, and grocery stores didn't really get popular until the '50s.

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

Sadly it is changing. People order online via instacart or Amazon... More and more.😣

[@SL-cl9gt]

Like at all 😂

[@lulz4lulz]

Because it's primitive, only thing that will change it is online fulfillment and delivery without customers ever going to the store.

[@cdshull]

The music is more '61 than '71 🙄.

[@BridgetR72]

The L'eggs carousel and Blue Chip stamps. I was a teenager in the 70's. Was always helping my grandmother paste those stamps in a book. For me they were better times. My parents and grandparents, and favorite aunt were still alive, as was my childhood dog. All have long passed. I liked my school, had a bunch of neighborhood friends on my block. No wonder I'm so nostalgic. I even like this Muzak. One of the stores I shop in now plays jarring music, not conducive to shopping.

[@calendarpage]

You noticed the L'eggs as well! I used to wear them all the time.

[@sandrap6321]

Wish I could go back & thank everybody for raising me & giving me good memories that have lasted a lifetime. You just never know what you have til its gone.

[@glennhubbard5008]

I was in Kroger recently and a song was playing that involved oral sex. Sad.

[@paulaboynton8299]

For us it was S & H green stamps.

[@ThatGirlHoney]

It all goes by so fast

[@patriley9449]

I was 20 years old then and worked part-time in a local grocery store. We stamped the prices on all canned and boxed goods. The clerks actually had to know how to run a cash register and make change. We bagged and carried the groceries to the cars as well. Great times.

[@petercermak1910]

I was 9 years old then, and I remember you and your counterparts using the labeling "guns" to apply the little paper stickers with numbers to cans. Our A&P had a moving belt ramp in the middle of our store that brought up cartons and boxes for the floor team to put out. The cashiers had lightning fingers that tallied up the totals, and the fast one's had a "bag boy" assisting to move the lines through. It was common to have a hand Counting money device, usually red or green plastic, to help keep tally while you shopped. Credit cards weren't common, so you couldn't go over your $20.00 or if you were Rich $50.00 dollar bill!

[@gregorydahl]

The purple metal stamper that flips to ink itself . Hold it flipped and do a whole case faster and save ink too . Feather dusters

[@mewhor]

I remember the stock boys with the feather dusters in their back pockets.

[@canileaveitblank1476]

I can hear the sound of the metal price stamping device! Thanks for a nice memory. ❤️🍀

[@theemptyatom]

Yes, exactly and the gas station attendants actually checked your oil and everything! Green Stamps, Hardy Boy books :-)

[@WindowsXPCZ]

I wish we can go back in that days it so classic and beautiful 🥹

[@timboslice1979]

It's good to know someone took their time to record this for future generations.

[@metrotek5]

@ladawg81 yes. Online. I only buy a coue things in the store now days, sadly

[@MadTracker]

I can actually feel the itch of polyester through the screen 🤣‼️ I remember as a child when supermarkets were like this. The memory of the smell of coated mint gum or butterscotch hard candies in my grandmother’s hand bag comes to mind, and the texture of a colorful sheer chiffon scarf always tied to the handle. Most everything was packaged in paper, glass, or cans. Plastic was reserved for few things, and grocery bags were always that thick brown paper.

[@boinknook]

I remember when my mother wore her kerchief on her head! So popular back then!

[@pattymiller9040]

Good old brown paper bags!! I still ask for them ... .some only offer plastic🙀

[@droolbunnyxo9565]

@@boinknook To hide the hair rollers & bobby pins :)

[@droolbunnyxo9565]

Exactly :) Speaking of candy, do you remember the HUGE bins full of loose candy? And the big metal scoop to bag them? It was the good stuff, too - peppermint patties, Kraft caramels/chocolate fudge, Hershey kisses, Mary Jane & Bit O Honey. I'd crawl under the bins & hide & when the aisle was empty of shoppers, reach up & grab handfuls. Eventually the store manager told my very embarrassed mom to please leave me at home or shop elsewhere. I had a very sore behind afterwards. And because my mom took the bus to run errands, my dad had to buy her a car so she could grocery shop other stores. 😡

[@janwheeler87]

And we used those heavy brown grocery bags to cover our school books every September!

[@johnburrows1179]

Those were great times. I wish young people today could go back and experience a week in the 70s. It was a different world. A better world. A much simpler one

[@andrewm1660]

True, but funny to think back to it now, and how I remember older people back then saying the same thing about the 50s.

[@LittleKitty22]

Trouble is, nowadays almost everybody is drugged up to the eyeballs and not necessarily on illegal drugs. All these antidepressants now make people aggressive and violent.

[@theresedavis2526]

Things were starting to change by then. The social/sexual revolution, that started in the mid to late 60s, opened the floodgates and today's generations are drowning in the flood.

[@zochbuppet448]

@@theresedavis2526 Everyone is now scrambling to figure out "where did we go wrong". The liberalism staring from the mid 60's was a double ended sword that benefited everyone...except by 2005 it started going off the rails and here we are.

[@annieholbis2430]

@@andrewm1660 the boomer generation was young then - they all sbocked their parents too because many were hippies !

[@jamesmolley8636]

Cashiers that actually know how to count back your change, amazing.

[@sunniertimer598]

I remember when you had to open the doors physically.

[@meganruchwatercolors7186]

The magical times back then. People were dressed up going to the market and so polite and the music was happy!

[@samanthanickson6478]

there were house coats worn that usually snapped in the front, and plenty of curlers and scarves to cover them; also slippers worn. people weren’t dressed to the nines at the grocery store, however, you did see much of what i mentioned BRIGHT and EARLY in the mornings. those shoppers were there first thing.

[@meganruchwatercolors7186]

@@samanthanickson6478 oh I am sure there were those not looking so great too! Lol!

[@americo9999]

I thought the same, :D

[@corntastrophy]

@@samanthanickson6478 honestly my favorite memories going to my aunts house was going to the local market at 8 am in our PJ's and looking at all the hubba bubba gum and deciding which one id get

[@annahgibbus8]

@@superkoopatrooper4879 That was a nurse wearing a white nurse uniform dress, white nurse shoes & a poncho.

[@tami4951]

Takes me back to grocery shopping day with Mom. Miss you, ma❤

[@kaliberconsulting5884]

Brings me back to my childhood when life was simpler.

[@thomaspowers5845]

I'm 86 now. I was the store manager walking around with a clipboard squeezing fruit and acting busy. I had to do it when there wasn't any customers around because they might ask me a question. The clipboard thingy made look like I was doing something. I've been retired for quite a while now, but that was the best gig I ever had. Keep on squeezing the Charmin !

[@MomtoZnE]

Lol… I saw that guy and thought “well, he must be the MANAGER” 😂

[@ForWhy83]

Love how everybody is moving about…calm, cool, & collective.. really proves to me how anxiety ridden the world has become.

[@bobbydean6661]

it's like this in the Maritimes...

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

Yes people have become so rude and its because of the fact they are Godless!

[@wspencerwatkins]

Looks exactly like it does today

[@aquamarinebarbie]

social media has a lot to do with that i agree

[@RkicF8]

@@wspencerwatkins It certainly does, but these people are from the city, they shop daily instead of weekly or monthly.

[@co1947]

A lot of small towns in rural areas still have grocery stores like this. They haven’t been updated just maintained. It’s really nice. My town has one, and there are more in the surrounding area.

[@rfreeman5012]

What city? Sounds awesome looking to move.

[@kaylean39]

Same with some of the markets I’ve visited in Holland and other parts of Europe outside the major cities

[@kaylean39]

I also like that there are still farm stands in some rural areas in places like GA for honey peaches pecans etc 😊

[@silva777]

But they don't play smooth music like this. They play the awful current 'pop' music.

[@BigD984]

I live in an area like that so to me this just looks like a normal grocery store lol.There’s one in a nearby town that’s been open since the 40’s and it hasn’t changed much since then.

[@eltonfreak]

Look how nice everyone looks. I miss the days when people didn’t go shopping in their pajamas.

[@blankchck]

People seem to have a little more self respect in those days.

[@philllipracco9027]

People are slobs now

[@ReflectingonReflection]

Fr

[@sharpfamily4938]

Exactly. I wear dresses all the time and I get so many compliments especially from the older generation of people who remember when women dressed nicely lol

[@juliekraft4102]

Ain't it the truth?🤣

[@stormjacobs5497]

Ah yes, the good ole days.What a great time to be a kid. The Wonder years indeed.🤩

[@monica-NJ-123]

Wow people looked dressed up and the shelves are well stocked and the prices are amazing , thank you for sharing this 😊

[@kristinesharp6286]

@@damin9913 people dressed less causal compared to now.

[@latsnojokelee6434]

In the 1970s if you were an older woman, say 60 years old, you did not go food shopping without putting on a skirt or a dress. My grandmother really hated seeing young girls in blue jeans at supermarkets or malls. No the younger generation, teenagers would wear jeans and T-shirts but nobody and I mean nobody would leave the house wearing their pajamas!

[@hundredsroadwerewolf]

You have to take inflation into account, though.

[@TaylorWatts17]

@@latsnojokelee6434 why do you older women have to wear Pacific things ???

[@jenniferbice8998]

I can remember when my mother would take me to the grocery store in the mid to late 1970's. She would collect S & H Green Stamps religiously and use them to buy things at the Green Stamps Store. My dad would take me to the grocery store with him on the weekends. We would always get a treat from the bakery.

[@tami4951]

I remember S&H green stamps; got some pretty cool stuff if you saved enough.

[@maryb.6647]

Oh yes, my parents saved S & H Stamps as well! Wow, I'd forgotten about those 😊

[@janwheeler87]

I got my very first wrist watch at the S&H Greenstamp store, a Timex in 1968! Then bowling for greenstamps on Friday nights at the Local Bowling Alley. Back when kids could wait in the car safely, windows down while mother did her grocery shopping, when Gas stations not only put in your gas and checked your tire pressure, oil and fluids but they gave out stamps, dishes and other things with so many fill-ups. When Duz detergents had Glasses in the boxes of soap and everybody drank from Flintstones "jelly & jam glasses". Aww, a much slower paced world!

[@GoodDayToYouAmen]

Word! S & H hahahahahah

[@silva777]

My first "job" was collecting bottles and turning them in to the local Safeway. I got a nickel for each one, as I remember.

[@christybradfield7812]

I missed the rides outside the doors! I remember if I was good in the store, I would get to ride the horse, .10!

[@sandrap6321]

And the penny bubble gum machines & prize machines

[@user-ejxomyq]

My local grocery store still has a couple of those along with some soda machines

[@OCC_Plumbing_and_Restorations]

They used to have those at the grocery store in my neighborhood up until the late 2010s

[@highvolts6620]

I was 5 years old then. That Leggs egg display was everywhere.

[@mariec4275]

I was 5 as well! I remember the L’eggs at every store.

[@garywilson4597]

Also, the Brach's candy display.

[@RedSiegfried]

What supermarkets were like before the big box stores and generic brands took over in the 80s! And a lot of supermarkets have gone back to the more traditional look now. Having bulk goods stacked on pallet racks is for places like Sam's Club or Costco now. Even to this day I'm still in awe at supermarkets and department stores because when you look at the sheer quantity and selection of goods it reminds you just how prosperous and lucky most of us are in this country!

[@davidg3323]

Well said

[@truth4004]

No it isn't most.

[@southtownsjoe32]

are you dreaming.....everything is out of stock & overpriced!

[@mellowfellow4755]

I was thinking how little they’ve changed too

[@LittleKitty22]

Only those that can afford it - not most.

[@hatingontruth9118]

So nice when they would stock shelves either at night or early in the morning. No one is tripping over the staff.

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

i have to stock a cooler and IK Sooooo R we get deliveries IN THE STORE during business hours because its open 24/7 so here i am trying to get literal TONS of product OFF the floor while the customers have to dodge duck dip dive and dodge to get around it all and then it starts anew the next day.. its a nightmare.. if i hadnt stopped giving a shit if i could get it all done each shift. id have suck started a shotgun by now ( metaphorically)

[@hatingontruth9118]

@@ripvanwinkle2002 Oh yes, it's a pain for both parties.. the consumer and the store workers. I've just accepted this is how it's gonna be now so I stay out of the worker's way. But, it's still frustrating. Notice how much food is put out at a time. This allowed more time before restocks.

[@pctaves777]

I was 9 in 1971. There were several things I noticed in this video that stood out compared to today. All adults were dressed nicely. No jeans. Dresses, suits, pant suits. One woman had a poncho on. I loved those! Hardly any kids shopping with adults. When I was little it was rare for us to go to the store with my mother. We stayed home! Older siblings watched us. Oranges show 5 for .79 cents. Today oranges are .80 cents each! Also, most of the women carried their pocketbooks over their arms and didn't set them in the carriage. Very smart. You don't see that much today. Also, there was a sign that said, "7 day milk diet"! No idea what that was. 😂😂😂 Great video. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy these. Memories of better times.

[@saleplazma5109]

In New York city , orange is 3 for 5.

[@robinlanier6886]

I noticed the very fashionable poncho as well. All the ladies and girls wore them bk them. 😁

[@elizalam5253]

I love 💕 the way the people dressed and actually paid attention and not have cell phones.

[@sabrinafair35]

Childhood memories! Am I the only who remembers smelling fruit and vegetables as soon as I walked into the store? Even organic has no smell! I was reminded when I visited Israel and was buying produce there; I could smell the celery! The melons! It was wonderful. Our food has changed.

[@violetsprings470]

Smells were different then

[@carolynprokopenko3918]

Yes! You are so right!

[@memahselfni]

I wasn't around back then but I did work at a small town grocery store a few years ago that was still a staple in the community and had been for years. I was literally just thinking, "I can smell this video" when I stumbled across your comment.

[@MelodyAnn57]

I was 14 in 1971 and this really brought back the memories for me. It all looked so familiar. I do remember the smells of fresh produce. I wonder what they are doing to our food to take that away. My pastor and his wife just returned from a trip to Israel. They enjoyed it so much!

[@ItsIdaho]

@@memahselfni This, my mom keeps saying seasonal was much better. And my grandma still refuses to buy out of season fruits.

[@defundhollywood3259]

If virtual reality ever gets so good that they could recreate a 1971 grocery store, I just might spend the rest of my life in there.

[@BoudicaSlade]

The frozen and canned food back then was garbage compared to now. A chain called "A&P" was once the biggest in USA. Their demise can be traced to many factors, one of which was their fish section often stunk up the entire store. People freely smoked cigarettes in some of the stores.

[@LateNightCable]

@@BoudicaSlade Wrong. The frozen and canned foods back then were frozen and canned foods, same as now. And probably more wholesome pre-GMO, with the exception of pesticide free certified organic. And fish markets still smell like fish. As far as cigarette smoking in the stores, smoking was permitted almost everywhere back then, so people smoked.

[@Zoe-dr5ps]

@@BoudicaSlade You can't beat a fishy cigarette first thing in the morning

[@kistole28]

Factsss.

[@josephgaviota]

@@BoudicaSlade _... People freely smoked cigarettes in some of the stores._ Genius, people smoked in EVERY store.

[@timanspach]

I haven’t watched a new movie in theatre for over 10 yrs but I just watched this and loved it! Hollywood your doing it wrong lol

[@tami4951]

Same

[@terencem8795]

Times were certainly not perfect back then, but I'll take them over how we are as a society today.

[@onemondaynight]

I remember that when you bought coffee at the A&P, it was in a bag of whole beans. There was a big red coffee grinder at each checkout lane where your beans would be ground while you checked out. There's nothing quite like the smell of freshly ground coffee.

[@johntoddtompkins3898]

I do remember that! Fun times shopping with my grandmother, If I was a good boy, she would buy me an ice cream sandwich.

[@warrenhoffman2006]

@@brentmann2988 And their stronger varieties were Red Circle and Bokar in the yellow bag!

[@joanmcmorris8791]

I loved that smell and the sound of the grinder.

[@beatcomber]

Trader Joe's, for one, still has in-store grinders.

[@DragoMusivini]

Trader Joes has grinders.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

...When I was a kid in the 70s & 80s, the supermarket used to smell of strongly of fresh bread. The stores were very clean, neat, & well stocked. Overall, the staff were friendly, polite, & helpful unlike today. I worked for Harris-Teeter in Charlotte, NC as a cashier & bagger in the late 80s & early 90s (junior & senior high school). I also worked for Food-Lion & The Fresh Market. I'd give anything to go back to those somewhat simpler times. It's such a hassle & headache going to the market now, & the stores are no longer well stocked or very clean. 👍🏽🍊💯🥖😊🍞

[@chaostheory16]

Everyone (including me) wishes they could go back to their youth. It’s odd.

[@skeezix8156]

I have similar memories of the grocery stores in the northwest around mid-70’s. I do remember there being those big round ash trays filled with sand in the produce section at Safeway. Everyone smoked….everywhere.

[@vinnypaolini9116]

Tbh my local Publix is still like this, obviously with modernized tech/design. Always clean and well organized with friendly staff though.

[@vinnypaolini9116]

Plus just wanted to say Fresh Market is still around, although it’s more of a pricey premium place now. Nice store and good produce/great bakery though.

[@prettynoose8497]

I absolutely LOOOOVVEE Grocery Stores! Wholesome, friendly, social, safe, with wonderful produce and baked goods.....there is just something warm, happy and satisfying about grocery stores!!!!

[@coffeepot3123]

My love are late night ferries across the ocean, with the snack and soda machine giving off a dim light to the left of my seat, and i can sit in a comfortable chair against the window and re-read that one book i have while looking out into complete darkness but with the calm sound of waves.

[@Harasezza]

@@coffeepot3123 That sounds lovely! Do you have a favorite book for those moments?

[@NJAlvarado612]

Same here! No one seems to understand me when I say it but grocery shopping is my favorite!!

[@Thebald1]

Back when you could get a whole cart full of food for under $20

[@canuckfixit7722]

....and you needed help bringing it all into the house.

[@qwertyuioplkjhgfd116]

Good old time

[@55tumbler]

well i dont know about that

[@spectrum10]

and you could get 3 boxes of Stop and Shop pop-tarts for $1 and they contained real strawberries

[@skillplusluckequalsthat]

Reality is being created so we allowed that shit to get worse.

[@justindawson5930]

If I was out shopping, and I heard some Lawrence Welk music playing, I would probably spend a lot more because I would be feeling really nice and relaxed

[@jeromeglick]

2:36 "It's the Hap Happy Happy Happy Hour! (Yes it is!) ..." anyone?

[@robynperdieu3434]

I have left stores that now play crap sexy music or even heavy metal.

[@krazyoldkatlady192]

I’ve forgotten about this time in supermarkets where nobody is wearing their pajamas or having their private parts hanging out while shopping. 😂

[@stevefoster4326]

And very few jeans.

[@sandybeach123]

I read your comment and laughed way too hard. Thank you for the belly laugh.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

The food displays look much the same. It's at the check out that things would look different.

[@unknownninja4430]

@@stevefoster4326 jeans are too formal nowadays. sweatpants are the new jeans.

[@happycook6737]

Yes, people dressed nicely in public in general. I am tired of seeing people with stuff hanging out shuffling around. And their foul mouths cursing continuously...🤦

[@scottfoster3548]

Hey was that Mom over there...HILARIOUS AND really cherished now. WEIRD how the mundane for those us who grew up in the 60`s and 70`s is just wonderful now and floods with great memories. Notice no plastic, mostly glass bottles. AH the old days are gone for good.

[@retromoviefan944]

yep, in that era, you didn't see endless aisles full of plastic bottles....none of these enormous 2 liter plastic soda bottles or endless aisles full of plastic bottles of water...that just didn't exist. I remember when that crap started to appear around the 1990's or maybe a bit earlier. I knew at the time that it was a bad idea that just got worse and worse with more and more plastic everywhere. That's the main thing I think today's young people would notice if they went back in time to the 60's or 70's in the stores. None of these lengthy aisles of plastic containers and bottles.

[@venomlily1651]

The music . I never thought that kind of music would sound so refreshing to me now .

[@jasonfrew2394]

I like that shot of the guy in the suit jacket and slacks eyeing everything trying to decide what to grab. That's me all over the place! 😄

[@EphemeralProductions]

Yep. Me too. lol. I try to go in with lists!!

[@chrisharmon]

That reminds me of how my mom would get dressed up to go grocery shopping.

[@sheilaenglish3293]

I thought he must be a single guy new to buying his own groceries 😆

[@cdog9559]

same ! i was 17 back then. get me outta this bad movie we're in . i'll give up the hi tech etc.

[@CornbreadOracle]

I wish supermarkets still had music like this.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I don’t, honestly. lol. I listened to more than enough muzak in my time. I prefer either silence or some more current music.

[@katie7748]

ME TOO!!

[@josephdockemeyer6782]

Was grocery shopping recently in the baking aisle surrounded by several elderly people. Blasting loudly from speakers overhead was playing a song from the 80's. I was so embarrassed as the lyrics went like this: You are an obsession You're my obsession Who do you want me to be To make you sleep with me?

[@CoyoteSeven]

@@josephdockemeyer6782 Animotion!

[@tutsybassista]

They do. Check out The Bon Marche in Paris, France! 💋

[@marshasweigart8506]

The poncho! I believe she was a nurse maybe. I had one in middle school..loved it. Also worked in grocery store late 70s early 80s. Paper bags..bag boys for each cashier. Different time for sure.

[@codyluka8355]

I guessed the same! Must be a nurse! The skirt and sensible shoes were a give away :)

[@claraht.6999]

I own a poncho, can't give up the nostalgia 🙂

[@calendarpage]

@@Automedon2 We still have bagger competitions at the Iowa state fair.

[@smill1985]

@@Automedon2 I didn't know about national bagging competitions. That's really cool. But yeah, bagging has gone way downhill since I was a bagger in the late 1990s. But I don't think most stores teach their employees how to properly do it.

[@avalondreaming1433]

How about when the bag boys would help you load the groceries into your car?

[@robertstinnette1926]

Love those prices and the simplicity.

[@coderlicious6565]

I was 5 yo in 1971, and I think all I cared about, was the cereal aisle. Froot loops, capn crunch, apple jacks, etc. etc..

[@D3Hearts]

It was nice to be out shopping and hear relaxing, soothing, happy, or upbeat, music.

[@johnting673]

Is it me or did everything seem so much more colorful then? ie, displays, packaging etc etc even the open freezer chests are blue instead of plain old white. It would be fun to go back and visit for a day. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@justz00t48]

The signage was bland that is for sure!

[@audge7122]

Yeah, maybe because today everyone wears neutral colors

[@kenkarsonn]

Not just you. Corporate branding has become very minimalist and sterile over the past 20 years

[@SCIFIguy64]

It’s because of the camera. If you had a DSLR at this time, it’d look just today. It’s why movies seem more greyed over, they’re simply more realistic in color and saturation. A good experiment is if you got an old super 8 and started recording out your window. It’ll have that similar saturated feel due to the film.

[@Phishkisses]

4:12 The most absolutely amazing sight. All those checkout lanes staffed, instead of 4 self checkouts open and only one cashier staffing one lane, with huge lines behind both.

[@thehuguenot5615]

And paying with check. I remember those days. It was slower but more personal. I actually got to talk with the cashier, and expecting to see them next week.

[@lightmarker3146]

And people working Spoke English .

[@rricci]

I think stores should give a discount to people who use self checkout.

[@jamesfetherston1190]

@@lightmarker3146 Working people spoke all sorts of languages.

[@KOSMICKEN09]

I honestly don't mind self checkout - I rarely buy many items and I'm probably jaded lol from having worked at a grocery store between 1991 and 2005. Things change that's just life 😢

[@jenniferwilson9579]

I was 6 at this time and remember many grocery trips with my mom and the muzak. I miss that, how nostalgic! Who remembers the Brach’s candies on display that you could bag up yourself? The worst thing thoughtful was each item had to be entered by hand at the cash register. No scanners! Also cash or check only.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I daresay that was a lot better. No Hassle of technology and computers breakin down and no one getting into debt to buy groceries. 👍

[@AbandonedMines11]

Ah, yes! I remember the Brach’s Pick-A-Mix candy displays. Do you remember those little rectangular candies that were sectioned in three sections that were colored pink, white, and dark brown? I think they were called Neapolitan candies. Never really cared for those as a kid. I do remember the caramels though with the white cream in the center. Whatever happened to Brach’s?

[@katie7748]

I didn't totally take kid-sized handfuls and shove them in my coat pockets and then hide them in my sock drawer when we got home to eat later. Nope, not me at all!

[@ellemjay]

@@AbandonedMines11 Brach's candies are still around. But I haven't seen the pick a mix displays in years.

[@BegoneJonah]

As much as I like rock ‘n’ roll, I don’t want to hear it while I’m shopping for groceries. I actually miss Muzak.

[@boataxe4605]

The shopping cart is a prime example of a design that is so perfect it has not been changed.

[@mikephalen3162]

Fortunately, they now have smaller carts so that you aren't pushing a Cadillac up and down the aisles.

[@voiceofreason2674]

Ehhh I want to start a volunteer organization that goes around town spraying WD40 on all the wheels. Some of those carts at Walmart damn near careen over when you try and hit a sharp turn cuz the wheels are all locked up

[@katie7748]

Until you get the one where only 3 wheels cooperate with each other haha

[@elhatesallofyou]

@@voiceofreason2674 im with you on that

[@gregorydahl]

@@katie7748 or it sounds like a chug chug chug chug steam train or horse galloping

[@susanfaulkner2304]

I loved the music in the stores. Calming and decent. It was a pleasant experience. And people said excuse me, could you be a dear and help me to get the pickles just out of my reach. Young men would let ladies go ahead of them. Children said please a lot of no thank you when talking with a familiar person Mom was talking to, and we did not interrupt! Miss those days dearly.😢

[@renatayuuki5705]

This still gave me nostalgia even if It was way before I was born but I feel the 70s, 80s and early 90s were all similar worlds, now the world is just way very different from the last century

[@jujube8067]

I guess I am feeling nostalgic because this almost brought a tear to my eye. Loved how you can see over the aisles. Things aren’t stacked up to the roof. But mostly I love how you can see in the store through the windows. I miss that. I’m not sure why stores had to became enclosed tombs.

[@NeoGee]

There was a far more limited selection of brands and items on the market back then, and people want a wide selection now. Even the largest supermarkets with their high shelves can't carry a fraction of products available now.

[@jefferypardue7509]

The Safeway where I work at which is pretty new compared to the ones in this video still has big giant Windows facing the street where you can look into the store but it causes the direct West Sun at night to blind everybody in the late afternoon and evening hours.

[@StinkyDustyBird]

My takeaway is not worried about covid or bullets back then

[@rogersmith7808]

Why have windows when you can use that space for merchandising?

[@zibbyzubb]

@@rogersmith7808 Not only that but leased spaces inside the stores to banks, coffee shops etc.

[@michaelcruze8560]

This was very similar to how it was in the early 80's when i was a kid as well. I remember going with my mom and with my grandmother. It was an unrushed experience with no blatant rudeness, aggression and trashy dressed shoppers. Calm music playing in the background and helpful staff.

[@steveharper5368]

same here, the mom, grandma and kid(s) grocery shopping on fridays was the thing.

[@markc-ru4qz]

And people minded their own business. I can't tell you how many times people will lecture you on what youre buying is bad for you. Or cat food. This bitch got out of line at the checkout to tell me not to buy Fancy Feast.

[@leecowell8165]

nope no nose rings and tattoos on 18yo females or dreadlocks on males, either.

[@kimwarner1681]

Yes and it was fun because you ran into your friends shopping with their moms, lol.

[@DynamicBailey]

Thank you for posting this. I was 5 when this was filmed. I miss those days. I miss the 70s. I’d go back if I could.

[@Butter615s]

My parents owned and operated grocery and convenience markets when I was growing up. This absolutely brought a tear to my eye. Such good memories. I can still remember the smells of the bread, the produce, the wax that we used on the floors. Thanks for posting. OH!- and MUZAK was the BEST

[@ghostmanscores1666]

I started to mist up. I could smell the inside of the store, the summer light beaming though the doors, and my mom young and alive pushing a cart.

[@tgant2000]

Back in the early 80s I used to work for Muzak as a service technician, going to these stores and fixing the music when it was down or whatever. The amount of sacharine orchestral music I heard for those years scarred me for life.... I'd go into an office and have people pull me aside and offer $20 to disconnect the speaker over their desk. Of course, let the music STOP and they'd be the first to call and complain!

[@anniee7226]

@@ghostmanscores1666 The part "my mom young and alive pushing a cart" made me cry...I can see my mom in my mind alive and pushing the cart too...I miss her...

[@goedeck1]

The smell of the detergent aisle.

[@rricci]

I always liked Muzak, even as a teenager. I was a strange child. LOL

[@noctisgamma556]

Looks peaceful, I might actually enjoy food shopping if I could go back in time and food shop there.

[@charleneweege7149]

I was 10 years old and enjoying life.

[@jimmycline4778]

I was 4 years old getting beat by my stepdad not enjoying life!🫤

[@heathers2706]

This song makes me think of how much I love you Mama and Daddy and I'm kinda crying.

[@yamato126]

i wish my dad loved me unfortunatley he ran away ill never know

[@jackie7610]

Hugs to you, Heather 🤗

[@EphemeralProductions]

Awwww. ❤️❤️❤️. Big hugs my dear

[@lisalee2885]

@@yamato126 I'm sure he does...he is probably very embarrassed but he loves you ❤

[@lisalee2885]

I really miss the old days and my family too! Hang in there everyone 😁😁

[@everkief8365]

I was born in 1967 so my mom dragged me to the grocery store many times during the 70s. The music REALLY motivates me to shop, shop, shop... and this exact song has been stuck in my head for over 50 years. I thought it was just because I was cool! Ends up I have PTSD!

[@politecat4236]

From shopping at the stores playing that music?

[@tami4951]

"Post traumatic shopping disorder"😅

[@rodchris8630]

Those were great days, even if we didn’t realize it at the time! And every shopper was dressed nicely and everyone was relaxed and polite!

[@Roger-i5m]

It truly was a different world back then. Much better than today. 🙂

[@justincase2281]

Oh God! Muzak was everywhere!! But I would pay a thousand dollars to hear that in stores now instead of the shit that passes for popular music these days!! And it too is EVERYWHERE!!😵

[@akira2196]

Floors so clean you can eat off them! Let's see stores of today touch that!

[@mikewillett5076]

Yep. They erred on the more conservative side with things like atmosphere music , even for the time. You wouldn't hear The Doors or Zeppelin even though they were out for awhile, lol. Same with what was played on the radio or a band on TV shows and movies (except for the rare real band that was hip). I recently heard a newer song in the grocery store that had a line that was screaming. As I said in another comment, it just seemed so wrong. I like some heavy stuff but right time, right place.

[@RedSiegfried]

Another memory of the supermarket I had as a child. My brothers and I were all under the age of seven. Mom and Dad used to let us eat some cookies while we shopped ... before we paid for them! :) The people running the supermarket didn't mind. They knew that's how you keep the little crumb crunchers quiet while you shop so everyone appreciated it! And of course I still remember how fast those cashiers were at punching in the prices before everyone got barcode scanners in the 80s.

[@ournostalgicmemories]

Mom would usually get us a box of animal cracker to munch on while shopping. Grocers just considered it a pacifier.

[@Kelle0284]

Of course they didn't mind. It was more money in their pocket.

[@getoffmydarnlawn]

My grandmother _hated_ scanners when they first came out, she didn't trust them and was convinced that all the beeping was going to lead to confusion. They're the norm today, but it was a big deal when they started becoming a thing.

[@The_Rifster]

@@getoffmydarnlawn She was right. My father used to find he was almost always overcharged during the early days of the digital cash registers.

[@RRaquello]

@Veronica A. I can actually remember the first time I saw a barcode. I was maybe 10 or 12 years old. It was on a container of yogurt in the now defunct NY area supermarket, Pathmark. I said, "What the heck is this?" It was on their store brand yogurt. Mom must have been on a diet because when she was on a diet she always bought yogurt.

[@ms.krueger2660]

Made me cry!! I was still a kid in 71 going to the grocery store with my Mom. Look how neat and nice people are dressed. They are not half naked. No one on a stupid phone !( sometimes I wish cell phones had never been invented). Life was simple, people were kind, you could shop in peace and my Mom was still here !! 😢😢. I miss the A&P and Delchamps!!

[@mjfoxfan3101]

I was born in '71...my grandma raised me. I remember going to our small town's shopping "Center". She loved the Gateway grocery store; except their meats. So we would put all the groceries in her car. Then walk down the sidewalk to the other end and go to Winn Dixie for the meat specials. She would tell me, "Don't let me forget the stamps." Then she turned in the stamps for the "new" plates, bowls, etc. I have 4 of those plate settings (with bowls). She passed in 2003; I think of her everyday.

[@rv6205]

i agree 100 percent......2022 is horrible and getting worse

[@Cappysailsagain]

@@Ibrahimaabas2001 what's right about it? In just the past few months my 401k has dropped by $55k. My stocks are down $64k. My govt refuses to even pretend to give a shit that we're paying $2-3 more for gas. Their solution? Buy a $60k Tesla! I'm paying at least an extra $300 a month for groceries for my family. And that's with making cuts. There is a host of political and social issues destroying society. There's more, but that's the short of it.

[@Cappysailsagain]

@@Ibrahimaabas2001 Oh yes the war, the unchecked mental instability, the 73 million abortions in the world, the 450 killings in Chicago so far this year...Yes the list could certainly go on...

[@IngefromGraz]

I think all this technology ruined our lives!

[@SBankzee]

I was thirteen in ‘71 I miss those simple days everything was cleaned people we’re friendlier …. I wish I could go back I always knew it was a special time there was something in the air that has long been gone never to return again.

[@pvanpelt1]

The L’eggs eggs pantyhose displays! We made so many craft projects with those plastic eggs. This video reminds me of how I wanted to help by pushing the cart once I got to first or second grade, so my mom would walk by the front of it, guiding it with one hand when needed, and probably helping to pull it at the end, as we filled it with Lady Lee (store brand at Lucky supermarket) stuff.

[@lindastarr4699]

I was ten back in 71'. No one is wearing pajamas, no phones, the basics on the shelves. Back then it was naval oranges from Florida and now we have several different kinds from around the world and the same with apples, etc.... Remember the colored toilet paper and the flowered ones? I always wanted to work a cash register! At our old A&P they had an 8 O'Clock coffee grinder right there at the register. I miss those simpler times and my parents.

[@jeffgarmon1]

Yes Linda, that freshly ground coffee at the checkout had a wonderful aroma.

[@robinlanier6886]

I remember everything you just mentioned. I miss it all too.

[@malomama4750]

Remember the paper towels back then were in colors, often with prints. My mom wrapped Christmas ornaments (the delicate ones) in paper towels back in the day n in my closet is some ancient 1970s yellow and greenish paper towels.

[@muziklvr7776]

I remember the colored toilet and tissue paper. It was later discovered that the dyes were very toxic in those.

[@madmikemackas]

Where are the screaming children running around?! The pissed off employees scowling at you walking by?!?!? The unorganized shelves and missing inventory?!?? What is this incredibly made up world of yesterday? Seems like heaven to me 😊

[@mrk1075]

It’s because today (Since 1914) we are getting closer to the end of this corrupt system of things and peoples attitudes are getting more disrespectful: 2Timothy 3:1-5, Matthew 24:3-14. nwt bible, or kjv

[@KelleyM462]

it was, it was, I miss it

[@justlive5387]

I wasn't even born yet and I miss these days.. I'm jealous..😢. At least you all got 2 at least experience this❤

[@fortheloveofnoise]

People got paid a better wage back then (if you are taking account of inflation) music was better back then....the world wasn't flooded with safety BS making the cars lame or overly expensive....ect ect...im only 28 and even I know that

[@Cwgrlup]

@@justlive5387I was a kid growing up back then and it was great. I’m glad I’m old now and going to die soon. The country has become a hellhole. I feel bad for you kids.

[@Yvette...24FM]

back in the days grocery shopping was a plesant experience

[@ShesooBreezy]

The food seemed fresher and healthier back then. I love these videos.

[@irisrose4732]

It WAS.

[@bubby372]

It was.

[@giftfromgod8204]

Almost all the little girls were dressed beautifully in dresses!!😇🤙🏼🙏🏼

[@robroy6374]

yeah, so cute.

[@BridgesDontFly]

Creeps

[@tupoleva144]

@@BridgesDontFly how is this creepy?

[@strawberryseason]

it's probably because they had just come from school. We girls always wore dresses or skirts. Pants started more 1972-73.

[@playlistideale]

This was wonderful! Adore the lighting. Reminds me how strangely invasive the L'eggs displays were.

[@yamato126]

leggos?

[@EclecticDD]

@@yamato126 Pantyhose, that used to come in a plastic egg

[@cacatr4495]

We all wondered at them (gawked) when they first appeared; if it hadn't been for the television ads, we wouldn't have known (truly) what they were, except that the sign said "pantyhose."

[@julieb3996]

I wasn't old enough to wear L'eggs but I remember panty hose being very prevalent until the late 90's. I remember one year at school when we had an Easter egg hunt, and there was this giant plastic silver egg with extra treats... Way to go, recycling teacher!

[@kirnpu]

L'eggs were my go to all the time. Best thing they EVER invented were the knee-highs! If your skirt was long enough you didn't have to wear the horrible pantyhose!

[@leilanigreenwood5064]

Wow. This brings back memories. Look at how wide the aisles are. All those cashiers

[@crlaw75]

I miss supermarket music like this.

[@georgiablackman9661]

The same music that plays in your head for years when Google comes you try to remember it by finding it

[@Jdwify]

My God, how times have changed. I was a 6 year old boy when this was filmed. We had a K Mart like that store in our neighborhood. I'll never forget the Blue Light Special that K Mart did. K Mart also had a spot where you could buy Sub sandwiches for dinner. I really liked them sandwiches. The grocery department was on the other side of the store. You could feed a whole family for only about $30 or so a week. You didn't have to worry about being shot while in the store, church, synagogue, movies, school, while driving, or minding your own business. Times were so much simpler back then.

[@RapidCycling07]

The country and rest of the world are being destroyed deliberately but gradually by the Marxist/Communist left. The goal is a New World Order, which the deceived masses laugh off as a schizophrenic conspiracy theory. Everything will continue to get worse but will be restored after almost everything is deliberately destroyed by the NWO. Btw please don’t take Our Lord’s Name in vain. Peace!

[@drcornelius8275]

Those subs at KMART were really good

[@annahgibbus8]

Kmart subs were Great! Inexpensive & really really Good! We'd get the subs in the front at the deli & go to the back where the cafeteria was I'd get a pop & my Mom would get coffee.

[@tami4951]

Boomer here. Thank you for sharing. I miss the old days of civility, manners, and simple family outings.

[@timcarroll490]

Really awesome video! I remember grocery stores then. In 1971 I was 5. Great how wide the aisles were and how civil everyone was. I worked at Giant Eagle, a supermarket in Pittsburgh for 27 years and am now happily retired. So I can really relate to this video. Also, this is incredibly clear footage. Thank you so much for sharing

[@andalusih5964]

لماذا التقاعد في هذا العمر لاتزال في عمر العطاء والقوة .أتمنى لك حياة سعيدة.

[@gardendormouse6479]

Congrats on your retirement. I turned 4 in 1971. I miss the Muzak the supermarkets played in the 1970s and into the 80s. Cheesy as it was...

[@knitterscheidt]

27 years...you deserve a medal!

[@Whateva67]

@@gardendormouse6479 I turned 4 in 71 as well 😎 Hello from British Columbia

[@DiogenesOfCa]

I used to find full diapers on the ground, half eaten chocolate bars, empty beer cans and once some put a bottle of champagne in the ice cooler. It exploded and guess who had to clean it up. People are lazy, greedy and selfish, that will always be true.

[@Learnamericanenglishonline]

Those of us who were kids in the 1970s were lucky to have experienced that time. I feel sorry for kids now who seem not to have the same kind of freedom and innocence.

[@trudieristich795]

Wow I'm jamming to the good music

[@gmackinnon648]

We all are Trudie, we're all head banging away🤔😊🤣