Supermarket Time Portal 1971 | Grocery Shopping with Muzak
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2021
- We found the time portal that leads us into 1971 Supermarket, USA. Let's do some grocery shopping, 70's style....
Songs:
What Kind of Fool Am I? --Joe Harnell
Apples and Bananas --Lawrence Welk
You Make Me Feel So Young --Andre Previn
If you like this one, perhaps you'll also enjoy sitting in K-Mart's parking lot for a moment. :) • KMART 1970 Time Portal... KMART 1970 Time Portal | Kmart Jingle and Outdoor Footage
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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''.
Nice save soda 😎
Good save...lol
You had me for the first half.
Nice save…funny too.
Funny. :)
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.
Yes, I remember those well and even riding one at least once.
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!
Ride Sandy the horse for a penny I think that was her name?
No insurance company in North America will permit those now!
It was a dime back then! And now I officially sound like my dad, who constantly talked about nickel candy bars.
Back when this country had some class.
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.
I feel the exact same way…
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!
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.
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.
You need to stop! Hilarious!😆😅🤣
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.
@@sicfrynut They also had to know how to count back change. I wonder how many people of this generation know what that expression means.
Recording people grocery shopping back then seemed pointless probably, but seeing it 51 years later...glad they did. It is a very valuable gem. ^_^
Yes! Absolutely!
They put your bags on rollers and sent them to the edge of the parking lot, where you pulled your car up and picked them up.
imagine the laugh we'll get in fifty years when we see footage of people "grocery shopping" today ... (and by "grocery shopping" i mean shoplifting..."
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.
2 cents a bottle, i would pick them up for candy money. a win win bottles recycled & store got the money back!
They were heavy too.
Also made with real sugar and not high-fructose corn syrup.
You can still get the REAL deal with real sugar in the glass bottles...Mexican Coke and Pepsi. 😉
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.
Cashiers that actually know how to count back your change, amazing.
I remember when you had to open the doors physically.
Times were certainly not perfect back then, but I'll take them over how we are as a society today.
It’s crazy to think the little babies in the carts are in their 50’s now
Keith: Yep, and I'm one of those.
I was born that year and can still fit in a cart!
Not 50 yet! July 1972. For the next few weeks I'm only 49. 😉
Shopping Trolley! Lol
Me. 😔
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👍😎
Same reason here. To escape from today's bull💩!!
Terrible that we have to be ashamed at something like that
Awe watch with your wife she may see why you like watching them you can be crazy together LOL
Yes
I was actually trying to climb into my phone screen. Couldn't do it unfortunately.
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.
I've been putting music like this in my MP3 player for 20 years when I grocery shop.
It kind of sounds like cassette tapes.
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.
And purchasing power was way higher😏
Absolutely true!
If only it could be like that again
Joe, where have you been? Haven't seen you since 1896.
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.
Hard to believe this was more than 50 years ago. Time sure flies by.
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.
Wasn’t simpler then. Still had hookers and drugs
I cant believe the story your tellin me, is macabre
I miss the 7 up candy bars
@@maximilianoferrer6841 Wow glad your math is so bad, The film is 1971... 3 years before you were born.
I was 10 years old and enjoying life.
I was 4 years old getting beat by my stepdad not enjoying life!🫤
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 UA-cam to bring us back.
👍👏😊
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
@@ramencurry6672Shoppers actually got dressed up to go shopping back then.
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.
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.
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.
so beautiful, had to cry
What a sweet memory ❤❤ thank you for sharing
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.
I love these old videos - makes me want to go back in time to simpler times without all this technology!!
Isn't it ironic, technology was supposed to make our lives so much simpler and more efficient.
The beginning of one of the most amazing decades! Everyone loved the 70's!!
The irony will be lost on those who do not know.
me toooooo
@@shakzor it's not ironic. Had the best music, styles, and people still cared about each other.
both 60s and 70s for me
@@JxT1957 80s were excellent, you have to remember I was born in '74. The 90s were good also (prosperous).
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.
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..
Happy birthday to her! My wife's birthday is also Sept 21 but she was born in '70.
@@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.
Happy birthday, Mom
💕💐
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.
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.
Sadly it is changing. People order online via instacart or Amazon... More and more.😣
Like at all 😂
Because it's primitive, only thing that will change it is online fulfillment and delivery without customers ever going to the store.
The music is more '61 than '71 🙄.
That beautifully stacked table of oranges would be knocked all over the floor, by some obnoxious person, these days. So many people are unhinged now and there are tons of vids on social media, that capture so much of it. It's sad how much things have changed.
People turned their backs on God
Nowadays someone would pull the bottom ones out so the entire pyramid would fall on the floor. Put it on Tictok. Disgusting. No morals anymore, no respect, never thought I'd say, I'm glad I'm getting old...
I was 5 years old then. That Leggs egg display was everywhere.
I was 5 as well! I remember the L’eggs at every store.
Also, the Brach's candy display.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One example of why divorce rates were lower
OMG! The LEGGS display! I remember that and I was born in 1973. Great nostalgia. Thanks.
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!
born in 1977 here and remember that
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
Yep! L’eggs! We used to do so many crafts with those plastic eggs.
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.
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.
Yes Linda, that freshly ground coffee at the checkout had a wonderful aroma.
I remember everything you just mentioned. I miss it all too.
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.
I remember the colored toilet and tissue paper. It was later discovered that the dyes were very toxic in those.
Back when you could get a whole cart full of food for under $20
....and you needed help bringing it all into the house.
Good old time
well i dont know about that
and you could get 3 boxes of Stop and Shop pop-tarts for $1 and they contained real strawberries
Reality is being created so we allowed that shit to get worse.
So nice when they would stock shelves either at night or early in the morning. No one is tripping over the staff.
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)
@@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.
I missed the rides outside the doors! I remember if I was good in the store, I would get to ride the horse, .10!
And the penny bubble gum machines & prize machines
My local grocery store still has a couple of those along with some soda machines
They used to have those at the grocery store in my neighborhood up until the late 2010s
Take me back please....I'm ready!
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!
DEFINITELY!!!
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.
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 😣
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.
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".
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?
@@rockabillylaker yeah the FF of 9/11 changed everything and then 19 years later the FF of Covid 19 changed everything again.
@@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 😔
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.
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!
The purple metal stamper that flips to ink itself . Hold it flipped and do a whole case faster and save ink too .
Feather dusters
I remember the stock boys with the feather dusters in their back pockets.
I can hear the sound of the metal price stamping device! Thanks for a nice memory.
❤️🍀
Yes, exactly and the gas station attendants actually checked your oil and everything! Green Stamps, Hardy Boy books :-)
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!!😵
Floors so clean you can eat off them! Let's see stores of today touch that!
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.
I hate the time we live now. I just want to go back.
O.k, no more internet, only t.v., and home phones(which are shared with the whole family). No microwaves at that time. Letter writing and snail mail. Home cooked meals every day. No VCR's, or DVD players, or video stores, but trips to the movie theatre occasionally. Expected courtesy, and respect for elders. Just a few of the adjustments that would need to be made.
@@sunniertimer598 I'm all for that!
That does sound wonderful. I loved those times.@@sunniertimer598
Back then I was 5 yrs old and life was beautiful. Today I'm 57 and life is hell. What happened?
en que cosas?
Liberals
@@spaniardsrmoors6817 Exaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaactly...
You became an adult.
@@spaniardsrmoors6817 that’s what they want you to think saklas
I wish supermarkets still had music like this.
I don’t, honestly. lol. I listened to more than enough muzak in my time. I prefer either silence or some more current music.
ME TOO!!
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?
@@josephdockemeyer6782 Animotion!
They do. Check out The Bon Marche in Paris, France! 💋
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..
Ahh, civilized America. I miss it.
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 !
Lol… I saw that guy and thought “well, he must be the MANAGER” 😂
This song makes me think of how much I love you Mama and Daddy and I'm kinda crying.
i wish my dad loved me unfortunatley he ran away ill never know
Hugs to you, Heather 🤗
Awwww. ❤️❤️❤️. Big hugs my dear
@@yamato126 I'm sure he does...he is probably very embarrassed but he loves you ❤
I really miss the old days and my family too! Hang in there everyone 😁😁
Takes me back to grocery shopping day with Mom.
Miss you, ma❤
Give me a time machine, i wanna go back and stay
Me too
Take me with you!!
Make room for me please
Me to !!!
A better society in every way
Well, not EVERY way, but I'll still take it over our stupid gd times.
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.
I actually miss the elevator music at the grocery store. I don't have the nostalgic indulgence you did about school and teenage years mainly because peers were assholes and bullies so I hated to go to school. However, the shopping experience in this video is QUiTE familiar from the time in the 70's and 80's. They were "simpler times".
You noticed the L'eggs as well! I used to wear them all the time.
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.
I was in Kroger recently and a song was playing that involved oral sex. Sad.
For us it was S & H green stamps.
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.
That's too funny!
That’s absolutely hilarious. Such innocent fun!
Gee look--almost all the cash register lines are open! Supermarkets today like to show off that they have 20 register lines---but only 3 are ever open!!
Or you gotta check out yourself lol. I should get a name tag and benefits with it! lol.
Cause they won't hire more cashiers. Cut down on employees.
Ah yes, the good ole days.What a great time to be a kid. The Wonder years indeed.🤩
Look how nice everyone looks. I miss the days when people didn’t go shopping in their pajamas.
People seem to have a little more self respect in those days.
People are slobs now
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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
Ain't it the truth?🤣
Wow! 5 oranges for $.79. Just one will cost that much or more nowadays.
Ahh, when things were wonderful and beautiful. America at zenith! The stores really were magnificent then.
And zenith was made in the US
My mother and I would head straight to the deli counter, order toast beef sandwiches and coffee. Then some shopping and staff would put it all in the car. All done to the music of the Tijuana Brass. 🎶
BIC pen vending machine, 10¢.
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
True, but funny to think back to it now, and how I remember older people back then saying the same thing about the 50s.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@andrewm1660 the boomer generation was young then - they all sbocked their parents too because many were hippies !
Almost all the little girls were dressed beautifully in dresses!!😇🤙🏼🙏🏼
yeah, so cute.
Creeps
@@BridgesDontFly how is this creepy?
it's probably because they had just come from school. We girls always wore dresses or skirts. Pants started more 1972-73.
I miss supermarket music like this.
The same music that plays in your head for years when Google comes you try to remember it by finding it
Jimmy's bike out front, no chain or lock....the good old days.
Love how everybody is moving about…calm, cool, & collective.. really proves to me how anxiety ridden the world has become.
it's like this in the Maritimes...
Yes people have become so rude and its because of the fact they are Godless!
Looks exactly like it does today
social media has a lot to do with that i agree
@@wspencerwatkins It certainly does, but these people are from the city, they shop daily instead of weekly or monthly.
My momma graduated high school in 1977, she always reminisced about the 70’s and I’ve always been jealous that she got to be apart of that era. She passed away in 2021. RIP momma 🌻
I'm sorry about your momma. I graduated in 1975. I remember the 70s well. I really miss that time.
@@MsTwister57 My older siblings talk about it all the time and I love listening and looking at the pictures and film reels. So awesome
@@MsTwister57 I graduated in 1975 as well, where did all the time go?
Too soon. RIP.
Sorry for your loss. I know what you mean, I was born in 1979 but wish I was born before that. Especially now the world seems so crazy.
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.
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.
In New York city , orange is 3 for 5.
I noticed the very fashionable poncho as well. All the ladies and girls wore them bk them. 😁
Brings me back to my childhood when life was simpler.
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!
Well said
No it isn't most.
are you dreaming.....everything is out of stock & overpriced!
I was thinking how little they’ve changed too
Only those that can afford it - not most.
When life still made sense
And there was only 2 sexes.
Notice how clean and orderly - since people used to take pride in their work - and if they didn't, they were fired.
The shopping cart is a prime example of a design that is so perfect it has not been changed.
Fortunately, they now have smaller carts so that you aren't pushing a Cadillac up and down the aisles.
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
Until you get the one where only 3 wheels cooperate with each other haha
@@voiceofreason2674 im with you on that
@@katie7748 or it sounds like a chug chug chug chug steam train or horse galloping
This is awesome. We need more early 1970's.
You should search the Kmart ones. That's back there in the day
Wow I'm jamming to the good music
We all are Trudie, we're all head banging away🤔😊🤣
I wonder if these people would notice if a modern person traveled back in time and walked through this grocery store lol. Kind of a silly thought, but I'd love to be able to travel back in time and visit different eras.
Me too
if they acted normally like theyre supposed to then no probably not. lol
well I suppose if you were walking around with a covid mask on it might draw attention, just sayin'
Unlikely. It's been determined that when people shop, they kinda go into a mild trance-like state. So it's unlikely they would even notice you at all. They might notice that there was a strangely dressed man at the store..lol
Nobody notices as long as you dress the part, act professionally and don't get overly excited and start acting weird since you're back in 1971 (or whatever year the project is set in). And most importantly, do not interact with anyone if at all possible. Just get in, observe and collect data, and get out. No one will even know you were there, hopefully.
Wow!! Not one messy bun or SpongeBob pajama bottoms
Someone could make serious money creating a virtual reality experience wherein you could wander and interact with nostalgic experiences such as:
Walking through a 1985 shopping mall
Going into a 1980s music store with vinyl albums, cassettes AND CDs
Walking through a 1970s grocery store
Heck, I'd pay for it!
The Holodeck! Your idea is great!
Me too. This was great
Walking down a street in a city at night without apprehension. That would be an attractive fantasy. smh.
The world was so different back then.
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 😊
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
it was, it was, I miss it
I wasn't even born yet and I miss these days.. I'm jealous..😢. At least you all got 2 at least experience this❤
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
@@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.
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.
I remember S&H green stamps; got some pretty cool stuff if you saved enough.
Oh yes, my parents saved S & H Stamps as well! Wow, I'd forgotten about those 😊
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!
Word! S & H hahahahahah
My first "job" was collecting bottles and turning them in to the local Safeway. I got a nickel for each one, as I remember.
It's brilliant that someone thought to film this bit of daily routine. It brings back great memories!
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I was 11 years old then
..BOY IF WE ONLY HAD TIME TRAVEL...BEAM ME UP SCOTTY !!!!!
I miss those simple days.
Well if find a way back please let me know.
Same. Sure, I'd like to see the future to see when the world ends but would much prefer to go back to the 70's / 80's when times were good. $50 notes were new and $100's hadn't even been invented yet. You could buy watermelon for 6 cents / Kg (about 3 cents / pound). There were only 2 genders (male or female). People were a lot more polite. NO karens.
You didn't have young guys (teens) wearing their pants below their butt showing off their undies
All I can say after watching this is....What the hell happened
Wokeness happened.
An acceptance of lower IQ people and embracing their lifestyles, is what happened
Corporations owned and ran by the worst humanity has to offer bought up everything and shove their degeneracy down our throats.
Feminism
i always ask that ...i think the mid 90s things changed ..and now its a disaster
Oh the days before cell phones...
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.
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
@@EphemeralProductions ecactly!👍
Yes, it makes me a little verclempt!
Who was gonna be on carson?
I imagine they would go home and turn on the brain roaster TV; just like all the way back to ca, 1950.
Five oranges for 79 cents, now 89 cents for one...
Ok great. Now I miss my parents… 😢 we were so innocent and free in the 60’s and 70’s. I miss my childhood, my parents, my sister…, friends and family who have passed on. Everyone was still there in those days, my family was complete. No social media and no surveillance and all the other ish. And good music, fucking good music! And my first Harley, a 1950 panhead when I was 14! Tinkering in the garage with my dad, makin it run, changing the oil… him talking about WW2, cussing out politicians… Oh man those were the days! 🎉
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.
I do remember that!
Fun times shopping with my grandmother, If I was a good boy, she would buy me an ice cream sandwich.
@@brentmann2988 And their stronger varieties were Red Circle and Bokar in the yellow bag!
I loved that smell and the sound of the grinder.
Trader Joe's, for one, still has in-store grinders.
Trader Joes has grinders.
I’ve forgotten about this time in supermarkets where nobody is wearing their pajamas or having their private parts hanging out while shopping. 😂
And very few jeans.
I read your comment and laughed way too hard. Thank you for the belly laugh.
The food displays look much the same. It's at the check out that things would look different.
@@stevefoster4326 jeans are too formal nowadays. sweatpants are the new jeans.
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...🤦
I feel like any minute Mary Tyler Moore is going to go past that bakery Aisle and get that coffee cake!
Or throw her hat up in the air. 😂
Everything looks so clean and civilised. I love how smart everyone is dressed. Seriously what the hell happened?????
The little girls looked so cute in their dresses and no children running wild!
We 'progressed'
I was just about to comment this! Everybody now seems to shelp around in their pajamas!
Athleisure wear happened
@@vincentseidle954 Ironic, isn't it. Everyone in athletic wear and more out of shape than ever.
...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.
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Everyone (including me) wishes they could go back to their youth. It’s odd.
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.
Tbh my local Publix is still like this, obviously with modernized tech/design. Always clean and well organized with friendly staff though.
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.
Simpler times... I miss it.
Everything looks stocked
Yes it did!
2023 me looking at those well stocked shelves
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It's hard to believe that a lot of the children in this video are in their late 50s or early 60s now. Also, a lot of the older women would be over 100 years old!
I'm 57 and loved those days. Miss them and My elders
Yeah, I watch old videos like this and wonder how many of them are dead. I know, so morbid, but I can’t help it. I was six years old in 1971. It was the best of times.
I can remember that even in the 70s supermarkets still had bag boys who bagged your groceries. My brother had a job as a bag boy when he was in high school and he had to wear a tie and everything
I remember that supermarket music. Humming away in the background. 😅
Such better days than now....miss this America
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.
What city? Sounds awesome looking to move.
@@rfreeman5012 I’m from Los Angeles they still have these
Same with some of the markets I’ve visited in Holland and other parts of Europe outside the major cities
I also like that there are still farm stands in some rural areas in places like GA for honey peaches pecans etc 😊
But they don't play smooth music like this. They play the awful current 'pop' music.
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.
I daresay that was a lot better. No Hassle of technology and computers breakin down and no one getting into debt to buy groceries. 👍
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?
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!
@@AbandonedMines11 Brach's candies are still around. But I haven't seen the pick a mix displays in years.
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.
This brings memories as my mother was a housewife when I was little and we would make our trip to the local White Front Supermarket to buy groceries. It was my mom , my two little brothers and myself. She would put the fear of God into us if we so much got of her sight or knocked anything over. I had to hold the hands of my two brothers and not let them go which was not easy. If we were well behaved we always got a candy bar or an ice cream cone at the Thrifty's across the street. Also there were no barcodes the cashier had to enter EVERYTHING manually. They were however pretty fast in getting customers checked out.
Didn't have to worry about cash registers freezing up!!!!!!!
America was so much better back then...
I wish I were an adult, at the time, when life was simple, no technology, grocery stores with affordable prices, well, neatly stocked shelves. Some of my beloved childhood foods from the 70’s are long discontinued. Back then, there were a good variety of supermarkets, whereas today, very few. And of course, good ole Wally World, is the world’s largest by revenue. This video also demonstrates the innocence and respect, by what means, people conducted themselves. Unlike today, shoppers were decently dressed, kids were well-behaved. It’s a shame how things have changed, especially the lack of regard amongst the public, in general.
AMEN sister. The awful rudeness of people is what I find most troublesome when I force myself to go out now. Hate Walmart. Ours has gotten pretty trashy, expired food and employees that are actually smelly and dirty....I wish that was an exaggeration, but sadly, no.
I like it better today technology makes a lot things easier
The smartphone has ruined society, culture, and the entire world. Technology is destroying everything.
I agree with your post fine lad. It was a much better world to live in. Simple is better.
I saw a lot sexier dressing back then. Women didn't always wear bicycle shorts under skirts for example. Remember when women used to show cleavage? I miss the good old days.
And the individuals in this video are likely thinking, in the back of their minds, that they would give anything to go back to the simpler times of the 1950's.
Cuban missile crisis; presidential assassination; Vietnam; sexual deviants and hippies (basically the same thing, am I right :P); nagging women who want a place in the corporate office; The list goes on and is enough to make a good, upstanding, Christian man faint.
Jokes aside:
Good memories have a habit of being preserved while the negative are either kept from you (sheltered child) or forgotten. This was most definitely not a better time. Humanity was full of the same BS that we see today and will see tomorrow; It simply took on a different form or was distributed a little differently among the populace.
Having said that: Nostalgia is not something I'd rob from anyone; just remember to adjust your critical thinking to compensate for those rose-tinted glasses :).
It's good to know someone took their time to record this for future generations.
@ladawg81 yes. Online.
I only buy a coue things in the store now days, sadly
What a huge culture change, the people seem polite; they're well dressed, and the store carries a serenity feel to it.
It does
These people lived through a great depression and a hell of a war. They learned young to appreciate each other. That's been lost.