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September 1938. "Children of Greenbelt, Maryland, family buying groceries in cooperative store." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
It is like "Supermarket Law" to stock things a child would want at kids' eye level? Regardless of shelf level I wish Sunshine were still in business. I loved their Hydrox cookies that looked similar to Oreos but not as sweet. Also interesting (to me at least) is that Burry's was around that long ago.
It's a shame they didn't seem to get any of the cookies they were looking at earlier.
The basic design of the hand-held grocery basket does not appear to have changed much since then, as I have used such baskets frequently in a variety of shops. But what I’ve never seen is the stroller that can hold two of these baskets, as we see in this shot. Where I live, it’s either the hand basket or the full-on grocery cart.
[That's not a stroller. It's a grocery cart. - Dave]
Thanks for the link, Dave. Perhaps stroller is the wrong word. What I mean to indicate is that it’s a buggy for holding the removable baskets, not the current style of shopping cart with permanently-affixed compartments.
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