" THE SUPERMARKET — A GREAT AMERICAN INVENTION " 1980 HISTORY OF GROCERY STORES & FOOD SALES XD37054

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website “The Supermarket: A Great American Invention” (1980) is a color, informational film about the history of the American supermarket. Presented by Philip Morris ., Miller Brewing Co., and 7-Up Company in cooperation with Food Marketing Institute, the film chronicles the story of the supermarket in America from general store at the turn of the 20th century to one-stop-shop superstore by the 1980s. The film is composed of montages of archival images, advertisements, and footage of supermarket chains as well as cultural phenomena of the decade that influenced how supermarkets continued to develop. 20th century inventions: Western Electric Donut Phone, zipper, typewriter, Singer Sewing Machine (0:16). LED lights illuminate windows of various supermarket chains at night: Waldbaum’s, Foodtown, King Kullen, Savers, Finast (0:50). Mothers with young chil