Supermarkets Are Losing This Food Fight
When supermarkets were first introduced, they were a disruptive concept, putting general stores, butchers, greengrocers and bakeries out of business. Is it now their turn to fade away?
Piggly Wiggly in Memphis, Tenn., was the first to establish the concept of self-service shopping in 1916. King Kullen, which was founded in Queens, New York, in 1930 by a former Kroger employee, introduced the concept of a large-format store with separate food departments and discount pricing. Supermarkets expanded with suburbia and car ownership: They went from accounting for 35% of...
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