A help yourself grocery - checkout

Photograph taken from a United States supermarket in 1948, where Britain's queues and rations are unknown, showing a woman being served at the checkout. The concept of the supermarket where all manner of goods could be bought in one place, without the assistance of a shop keeper, and then paid for at a checkout, was first introduced in America where rationing did not feature following World War II. This picture was one of a series taken in an A&P supermarket; America's largest chain begun in 1937 and with 1670 supermarkets by 1948

1670 Assistance Begun Checkout Feature Grocery Introduced Keeper Manner Paid Queues Rationing Rations Supermarket Supermarkets

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