Grocery shopping at an A&P store in 1982
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2023
- Footage of New Yorkers shopping at an A&P (once the biggest grocery chain in the U.S.) around October of 1982.
Shots of the checkout, bagging groceries and people meandering about the store.
This laggy video last around 5 minutes.
#coke
#tvguide
#a&p
I yearn for this era that I was never part of
It was a wondrous time to be alive! Everything seemed possible!
Never let anyone convince you that cellphones didn't destroy civilization
I was a small child but I still remember it. Wish I could go back
Me too.
I know it's the popular thing to do, to make like "nostalgia for years I never experienced", but you can still live like this pretty easily.
This brings back memories. I worked at an A&P as a teen from '87 to '89 and loved the job. It was overnight stock and I had my own aisle to manage that i'd order for, stock and make look presentable by the morning. By the time I left work at 7am, each side of that cereal aisle looked like a grand opening with everything blocked perfectly on the shelves.
Oh my goodness! Bravo! You just validated exactly why this type of video is priceless - the words I’d use to describe what you wrote: goal oriented, healthy pride, strategic, hardworking, placing the customer first; through easy access presented by you. Do we have that these days?
When people took pride in their jobs. Now, get hired, quit, walk out 5 days later. MAYBE. Call out constantly, or no show, no call. "Oh, I put it on Facebook." Yep, I heard that one. NO work ethic in the majority of kids today. So many mentally disturbed due to nature and nurture. No nuture. Broken homes, no homes, neglect . Many in therapy, on psychiatric meds. Great job boomers and the ones behind them raising kids! Not to mention media's part, schools , core curriculum, dumbing down, indoctrination centers, social media. Complete devolvement of society into a 💩 show🤡 we have today.
Splendid Memories Indeed...
Awesome ❤❤❤
No one is shopping in their pajama bottoms 😆
women arent tatooed like a pirate lol
They didn’t have the balls yet
@@cajuncyclerestorations145 no nose rings or face piercings either
Good one 😂
@@kris78787 unless they were part of the punk scene in the late 70s early 80s but mostly not
The paper bags were so strong back then. Today they rip before you get out the store.
I loathe the self checkout stands we have now. I'm surrounded by grocery stores but I drive 20 minuted to a specific one because it's the only place that has actual humans working the register. I dont want to see my face on a screen while scanning my own groceries. They terminated employees for machines yet still raise prices and make the customers do all the work.
I’m with you. In fact, I grew up in NJ so I’ve never pumped my own gas. Even though I’m across the bridge in PA now, I cross to get my gas. Cheaper too
@@samanthab1923 Enjoy it while you can. Here in Oregon they just got rid of full service gas last month. Just yesterday I found that Circle K convenience stores near me still have attendants to pump gas. They will be getting all of my business now.
I love self checkouts
The cashiers are inept n take forever-so would u for min wage
I value my time
I think people are drawn to old times like this because life feels right then. It was the real thing back then and today just everything is wrong. Life was really hard back then too but today it's at a whole other level.
Yes and I also think people miss the pre-social media/internet times too. There's just something about that time that was special
Serial killers were more original back then.
Oh please, every generation that gets older thinks these things....
That baby in the shopping carriage is 40yrs old now.
And all the people 60+ are dead.
@Purplenpinkk Yup. I was saying that too.
I was born in 82, now I'm 41 😊🎉
@@Purplenpinkknot necessarily
I see Aqua Net Hairspray
Life was so much better! So much easier. Less stress. I was 13 in 1982. We would ride bikes and play outside literally ALL day.
Of course life was easier when you were 13 and did not have bills, work and family stress. Adulting is hard!
@thebluetarp
You and me both. I was only 3 in 1982, but that decade was the best one of my entire life. Each decade after became progressively worse, although the 1990s maintained a lot of the good things that I loved about the previous decade. It was the 2000s and beyond that made me hate life and obsess about wanting to return to the 1980s again.
1980s > 1990s > any year after
@@davidcolantuono3622I’m the exact same age as you and I agree 100%. I miss the 1980’s and 1990’s so bad. Life sucks nowadays
People used to smoke 🚬 in the grocery stores, banks, etc. back then.
Doctors even Recommended our favorite brands for us on TV. Imagine that
@@acgillespie were they still doing that in the 80s? I know they were doing that in the 50s
@@oldradiosnphonographs they cut out cigarette commercials in the 70s. That's when the public first really stated becoming aware of how dangerous smoking is to your health. And it wasn't until the mid 90s when smoking was banned in restaurants
@@oldradiosnphonographs Oh sure. Right up and into the 21st century. It all started changing around 2005 I believe
@@oldradiosnphonographs Oh I thought you meant the bans of smoking in public places. The bans didn't reach us until after 2005
Back in 1982, you could spend about $20 and feed 3 or 4 people for several days. Prices were not outrageous and you didnt have to worry about being shot by terrorists. Times were much simpler then.
You could tell this was the 80's with the two cans of aqua-net on the conveyor belt. That was about a week's worth in the 80's. Big hair, baby! The higher the hair, the closer to God. 😂😂
The hair in 1982 wasn’t as big as the hair in 1988 I guess
That didn't start til mid to late 80s
The coffee grinder smelled so good. I use to love watching my Dad, pour in the beans; knowing how much he liked the coffee. The fonts on the labels are big!
I USED THOSE A LOT THEN AT REGISTER
TASTED SO GOOD
NOT LIKE THE DUNKIN KRAP WE GOT NOW
A&P looked like a real nice place to shop
The brown paper bags only, The tv guide magazines, the way the brands of food and the containers looked back then all bring back the memories of when us kids would always go along with our Mom to go grocery shopping back in early 80s here and all is exactly how I remember it at 10 years old. Only difference is that we went grocery shopping at a Riverside just down the street from our local AP here in NW Pennsylvania. Thanks for this video
We have come full circle back to paper bags. I wonder what's next, maybe a return to glass bottles and jars? 🤔
I wish.
I'm in my 60's and I remember the stores banning paper bags, save the trees they yelled. What happened to save the trees? There's something wrong when most things in the store are in plastic bags and they give you plastic bags to put your fruit and vegetables in but you can't use a plastic bag to put your groceries in. Why don't they ban disposable diapers? They are made out of plastic. If they did that they would have riots in the streets!😅
If we were smart, we would.
The magazine rack shows the October 16-22, 1982, issue of TV Guide
Thank you!
I started 7th grade, and the first season of the tv series cheers just aired. Years later would group with other shows on NBC to be must see TV on the Thursday night lineup. Cosby show, cheers, family ties and nightcourt. Back when tv was entertaining.
That was back when TV Guide actually had listings as to what was on the TV!
I turned 17 that week .. 🥰
"Skim" milk. "Lowfat" yogurt. This is when people started believing the lies and we ended up getting fatter by cutting out fat but replacing it with sugar.
😂
Yup, right about the same time seed oils started being promoted and you know grain was subsidized. Recipe for disaster.
This is true!
I love these videos. I cry when I watch them. 😢❤
I will go further back :
We had a meat 🥩 deli in Jersey, owner had an old
Brass Cash 💵 Register. All mechanical ⚙️, no electric ⚡️. So, if the power went out he could still round out the orders and take cash 💰.
Imagine that today
( Power Outage in Summer never stopped sales) 😂
Imagine the 🤡 today trying to count back change in their heads!
@@patricialavallee8286 Exactly
Jersey here too. I remember shops like that!
@@standardnerd9840 Cool 😎
Yeah, I used to work at a store back in the 70s where I had to run an old Anchor register with the rows of numbers from 1 to 9. I was pretty fast at it since I worked on the stock crew and did all the pricing in back so I new the price of most items before I even touched them.
No scanners, just ten key entry. 👍. Soon though they'll have a donkey Kong and Galaga arcade machine with a change machine next to them, near the postal stamps machine 😊
NCR 2552 cash registers. Ran the same software as the bigger NCR 255 registers, but the smaller 2552s had those printers that rattled
Oh wow. Chip-A-Roos. I completely forgot about those! That's one reason I love to watch old shopping clips. You see these products that are no more, but you remember them.
I like the Coke bottle.
I went to A&P stores shortly before they closed. They had an awesome policy where if you could find an expired item on the shelf you got it for free.
For real?
I remember that also as as their slogan was "We are fresh obsessed"
Grocery Outlet needs that policy now....
That was a great policy! All grocery stores should of followed with this in the years and decades after AP stores closed.
By golly I didn't notice anyone glaring off endlessly starring into a phone
Because they didn't have them lol!
@@rebeccaa2433 "the Good Old days"
And they say time travelers, don’t it exist 😆
AQUA NET thats all im saying!!! if you know you know
In 1982 my mother worked at a store called ShopRite (now a Safeway); I recall "helping" by using a label gun to pricemark the tops of canned goods.
ShopRite and Safeway both exist today but I’m not sure they overlap in what regions they serve. ShopRite serves New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.
My mom was a Shop Rite shopper. Still have one near me. Always packed
Ahhh the original AQUA NET I was 8 in 1982 best era ever.
Me too :)
I was born in Nov of 1982. The pampers diaper box is very familiar to me, as well as the heinz baby food jars.. the custard and the juice.. old memories but good memories. haha
Yes kids it's true, back in the good old days most items 75% of them was actually priced at under 1.00. My how times have changed
Yes, and they certainly have not adjusted perfectly with inflation as some apologists will claim when people make your point
When I was a kid a pack of gum was 25 cents. Now it's almost 2-3 dollars for a small pack of gum!
That’s the part I’m envious about. Probably the same for cars and houses too
@@oldradiosnphonographs 1985 I Bought a brand new Mazda B-2000 SE5 with all the bells n whistles right off the show room floor for $6,200 cash. Great little truck .Long bed
@@acgillespie awesome little pickup
We never had A&P stores in my area, but this still great too see as it does bring back memories of going grocery shopping as a very young child with my parents, and grandparents. 👍
Me to!
My first job was at an A&P in Brooklyn. The first supermarket they built in Greenpoint. Before that it was just grocery stores, butcher and veggie stand. I had to get a working permit because I was 15 years old. So exciting making my own money and also made so many friends at work.
I WORKED & TRAINED AS A CASHIER AT A&P STORE IN HARLAN KY. IN 1976 To 1980! I LOVED WORKING THERE SURE DOES BRING BACK MEMORIES!
I was born in 1970 and this is like watching my childhood...wish I could jump into this video for a day...I may never come back
Ah, those days! I half expected to see my mother shopping in the aisles💔 Miss you, Mom!
Ahh, so disappointed we didn't get to see the cereal aisle!
It's not a Piggly Wiggly but this footage is nonetheless sufficient in bringing me back to what grocery shopping looked like when I was four years old. Very interesting stuff.
ah, remember the days where we had actual cashiers?? good times
Ih my gosh I was 20 yrs old. These videos are comforting to me. Is that weird?
Nope, I was 22 and this makes me want to cry......so peaceful.
Simpler times. Life just gets so complicatedly stupid as time goes on. More and more laws to antagonize people, more and more bills to rob the people. Plus the music is terrible today. I wonder what Walter Cronkite would say about todays "journalism".
A&P was my very first job back in 1995
Plenty of Aqua Net! Those Chip-A-Roos were better than the Chips Ahoy cookies.
That baby is 41 yrs/old Right Now. Same age as me, in early October. 🥳🥰😭 #1982birthyear
😂
I was just thinking the same thing!😁
I remember this vividly from my childhood. My dad called a&p the ass & pecker!
😂😂🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂💀
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My dad did too!! 😂 I was born in 82’, but we still had an A&P when I was like 5, bulk candy was my jam!!
😂😂
I was hoping I would see another grocery shopping video from the early 1980s here again! Glad to see this one here for it has been a while since I seen one of these kinds of grocery shopping videos! Love these kinds of videos here that always bring back the childhood memories! There were 2 AP stores in the early 80s in area I live in.
I remember those days.
That Coke bottle was called rocket style I believe.
Was it glass do ya think?
@@flutebasket4294 It was plastic.
@@kevinsmith5288 Lies~ Not plastic~ Fake Kevin Smith~
@Buttermilkjug I remember buying them, they were plastic. And I don't appreciate you saying that I lied, but so easy to do on the internet, when you don't to face people directly.
Two industrial-sized cans of AquaNet....that says it all...lol
I'd love to see what their totals were at check out
In upstate NY my parents shopped at Grand Union, but it looked much like this.
We had a Grand Union near us
1:13 Nice! A 1 Liter bottle of Coke with the flat bottom and no contour “hourglass” curvature… Also has the aluminum cap!
Paper Bags. Cool!
I was a cashier at A&P in the 1980s. Before the barcode scanner, applying the coupons was difficult because the customer was supposed to have the item in their basket.
WOW not 1 person shopping in their pajamas and where is the obesity?!!!
I saw several fat people in that video.
All those bottles were glass not plastic.
I noticed in all these early 80's footage it seems like the colors brown and orange are used alot in this era in terms of shopping design same with wood paneling.
Everything had this Brown, orange, red, yellow, white striped aesthetic in those days you can see it on the A&P branded items
No doubt holdovers from the 70s
Now everywhere you go there are white walls and it's like you're in an insane asylum.
@@elliecherise1968 I totally agree!!!! All glaring white and fluorescent lighting and NOISY too. Those big grocery stores who have people talking all loud on the intercom and doing advertising shticks, etc. It's psychological warfare out there.
@@courtnayj4990 Starbucks still has a living room decor. They should have supermarket Karaoke 2-3 times a day, it might help people chill out a little more and get millennials and gen z out of their comfort and vanity cellphone zones if they have to make a jack ass of themselves in public😂instead of hiding behind screens. On social media everyone's pretending they're living the perfect lives.
Much happier times not this sad gen we live in now😢
I started 1st grade in August 1982. We didn’t have A&P in the South. We went to Big Star.
We had A&P and Big Star in the Atlanta area and SC.
I forgot all about Big Star! We had one in Roswell, Georgia.
Hey lady, grab me some Nacho Cheese Doritos full of flavor and MSG's! And give me that Coke bottle, they haven't changed the formula yet!
Was 17 that year. Remember the old A&P's so well. Really miss those times.
Wow!! Brings back memories of going to the grocery store with my mom in the 80s & 90s.
No Flamin' Hot anything.
It’s so quiet and mellow in there. Notice no music. I remember shopping here with my mom.
sugar and lots of aqua net🤣
I zeroed in on that as well 😮 I can’t remember buying a pound of sugar
I'd love to see what the prices were!
Omg, I turned 20 in 1982. Working at Polly’s PIES AND Homemade Sandwiches in Long Beach, CA. 3490 Atlantic Ave! Hey, I remembered 👍👏👏😂😝
Your luckier than me I turned 10. You got an additional decade of coolness in your life.
My mom was also born in 1962
I sometimes wonder: Would you rather be a kid in the 80's or a teenager in the 80's (or a young adult aka in your 20s)? I was born late 70's, so I was an 80's kid. Sometimes wonder what it would've been like to been a teenager or young adult in the 80's.
Aw, Polly's! I was born in that area but we moved inland when I was 4. Mom had liked Polly's so later on after we moved she took my brother and I to Polly's on a visit to the LB area. That was a great place. So nice to be reminded. I'm glad I ran across your comment.
5:00 It’s Florida Evans!
Lol
😂😂
SAME COAT AND EVERYTHING TOO!
Can't believe I was just 10 years old at the time this video was taken. Interesting the one woman wearing a Christmas sweater in October :D
wow TV guide, and Hunts Ketchup in a real glass bottle. Chip-a-Roos !!! Columbo yogurt...and old waxy paper dannon cups.
Coke in a glass bottle, AquaNet aerosol, Old Milwaukee beer, and Stella Doro cookies! Those were sweet, old timey grocery stores.
Unlike plastic, that glass gets properly reused and/or recycled and doesn’t go to waste when people think they’re recycling (greenwashing).
I caught that Old Milwaukee 😂 that stuff was swill
If you are talking about at 1:14 I believe that is a plastic 2 liter bottle of Coke, similar to what is sold today. Those were introduced in the late 1970s. Before that even super sized bottles of Coke were in the classic stylized Coke bottles design.
In the 60's we were able to buy quart bottles that were in the classic shape. But my mother would only get them on occasion when they were on sale 4/$1.00!
@@MaxZomboni
@@Greenwings701 Yeah, I couldn't remember the exact size, but you are right. There were 32 oz. glass bottles of Coke, and I think I remember seeing them in 4 pack cartins. I think the problem with 32 oz. bottles was that they really weren't that big. Sure you could buy one and share it between two people, but what was the point? For the same price or less you could buy two 16 oz. bottles and each have a bottle. 2 liter bottles was a game changer. That was the first time that families or groups of people could buy one bottle and share it between everybody. But still not as convenient as everybody having their own bottle or can.
I was born in 1982, I could be that kid in the shopping carriage.
They don't make paper bags like they used to.
October 1982. Wow!
I would give anything to go back to Oct 1982 for a few hours.
This looks like it was filmed in the 60s lol
Naw, there are all kinds of clues this wasn't the 60s. There were no 2 liter Coke bottles in the 1960s. Also six pack cans of soda were rare in the 60s. It would have been in cartons of glass bottles. Also labels on products would have had less colors in the 60s. The image on the bottles of Heinz BBQ sauce at 2:56 just wouldn't have been possible in the 60s. Then there are the fashions. In the 1960s many young females would have been wearing skirts, not just the old ladies.
It does look older
It was life back then. The food labels and packaging was different but the food tasted exactly the same as now.
In my opinion, food tastes worse now. Corporations are concerned with using the least-cost commodities in their products and it shows.
Except for the high fructose corn syrup shoved into everything these days
Wrong! Who do you work for, sir?
No it doesnt.
@@nadineskye7050I could say that too. A Totinos Pizza from even just 20 years ago tasted better to a Totinos pizza now
I was 2 years old
Ah yes, the good ol' days when everyone used paper bags.
I worked for a grocery store in the mid to late 90's and as a bag boy I had to ask every customer if they wanted paper or plastic. Good times.
Aqua net, paper bags, and well behaved children. Definitely pre-1990's.
Kids 25-30 years ago ain’t as misbehaved as kids today are they? 😂 (every generation thinks they never did bratty stuff when they were younger) Not to mention things being still in mainly glass packaging I didn’t see a plastic ketchup bottle on that shelf.
@@oldradiosnphonographs No but at 3:05 I believe those are yellow plastic bottles of mustard on the top shelve. For some weird reason mustered had already switched to plastic, but ketchup was still in glass bottles probably into the 1990s.
@@MaxZomboni Yeah in the 90s as a kid I remember the large glass bottles well being sold with plastic ones
Kids were still much better behaved in the 90s
Do you ever go outside your house?
There IS no parenting going on anymore.
yep come to a public school today and see how awful 75% of kids act today
This is gold, the original A&P logo and Aqua Net😂. What else do you need? And they look like everyone's grandparents.
This is first week of October 1982…..
So glad the food is less processed now. The food was probably full of additives then!!!
Don kid yourself it was packed with additives. 🇬🇧 👍
No scanners...Everyone polite and quiet and kind and patient. I remember running into A&P for my mom when I was around 12 to get her a pack of cigarettes...she would give me a dollar and a quarter. lol
anyone else remember a&p putting in inventory #s and took the forever to ring up a few things? also can you imagine taking a brown bag and grabbing it like they do, today the groceries would be all over the ground
My dad worked for A&P for 48 years, hhhaaaattttteeeeedddddd his job!!!!!!!
Why? Such a nice thing working a same job 48 yrs and so stable like he could retire easy
@@HelloooThere Because service industry sucks. It always has.
All paper bags then, so I used to double bag it
These people are not doing in the video
Here on the West Coast we have come full circle back to paper bags. But you have to ask if you want it double bagged. .
@@MaxZomboni Nice
Love this footage
Love U 😘
@@vampirerobot you too my friend 😊
Wow. People are patiently waiting in line. This would be a code red at some supermarkets today.
I remember in the mid 60's as a boy going with my grandfather to A@P and there definitely weren't motion cameras I ever saw, I remember coffee grinding smell. Quincy, Mass
Everyone is so happy and respectable. No Karens, racists, or mentally ill people making a scene. Beautiful days...
1:52 that baby is probably 40 years old by now
I bet a full cart was $30 max. Also, I was a wee baby that year.
Aww. I remember A&P..❤
Oh yeah. We shopped at A & P, and also Farmer Jack. I miss those days.
Wow! I noticed Double Cola at the beginning! Haven't seen that since the 70s! My local A&P was terrific but it became Super Fresh in 1983-84. Coffee grinders with Eight O'Clock Coffee at the end of every register! Ann Page store brand products!
Awww, my birth year🥰🥰🥰
The good old 80s!
Love those paper bags!
In 1974 , my first "Real Job". Was at Almacs.. in Fall River , Mass.. From stocking shelves , to cashier/bag out...
To Meat. Dept. Awesome job.... Started out a $3.75 hr all the way up to
$ 6.00 hr.. in one Year
We had A&Ps in Canada as well, I remember my mom working there in the late 80s and her red Blazer, lol, good memories.
Would love to know what your digitizing process is like. I have a bunch of tapes myself (all from varying years, of course), but they contain a lot of daytime television, commercials, etc., and I've been looking for a simple way I could digitize them for archival purposes (and, potentially, any future tapes I may come across).
You can buy a VHS to DVD Recorder, or you can get software to do it on your computer. Be warned though. The process is tedious. I have had a VHS to DVD Recorder for almost 10 years and I have only converted a very few tapes. My plan has been to convert one VHS tape to DVD every day. But if I ever get around to it, it will still take me years to convert them all.