This is just cool.....
Piggly Wiggly was the first to:
provide checkout stands.
price mark every item in the store.
feature a full line of nationally advertised brands.
use refrigerated cases to keep produce fresher longer.
put employees in uniforms for cleaner, more sanitary food handling.
design and use patented fixtures and equipment throughout the store.
give shoppers more for their food dollar through high volume/low profit margin retailing.
franchise independent grocers to operate under the self-service method of food merchandising.
(wikipedia.org)
Piggly Wiggly, you're a legend. incidentally, Piggly Wiggly was our sponsor (and thus "team name") when I played baseball years ago.
ReplyDeleteI always loved the fact that someone named their store that name. It's so friendly and fun.
ReplyDeleteIn Graham, we used to call them Hoggly Woggly.
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