Who would have thought that grocery stores would have been something that has changed so much over the past century? It's just a place to grab some essentials for dinner, right? Well, while grocery stores have always been known to carry those basic necessities like eggs and milk, novel inventions like shopping carts and self-serve checkout stations have revolutionized the ever-evolving grocery shopping experience. Not to mention, the introduction of big-box supermarket stores in the 1960s and 1970s — when iconic stores like Walmart and Target came into the picture — delivered an entirely new spin on what our society deemed a "grocery store."
Nowadays, with the rising popularity of grocery delivery mobile app services and curbside pickup, it's becoming less necessary even to step foot inside a grocery store. So, let's take a look back at grocery stores through the years to examine just how far we've come.
From the invention of shopping carts in the 1930s to the introduction of plastic shopping bags in the 1970s, grocery stores have been ever-changing with the times.
