Picture No | 10217306 |
Date | 1948 |
Description | A 'help yourself' grocery - checkout |
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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.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 1948. P.185 btm right. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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