The Coolville Supermarket
Alas, the Coolville Supermarket is a grocery store that exists in only in the imagination, spurred on by the images in this awesome photo collection of retro supermarkets and once-upon-a-time grocery packaging. Go race your cart around the aisles.
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Those S&H green stamps bring back memories. My mom collected those. We even had an S&H green stamp "showroom" in our city where you could go redeem the stamp books on a wide array of merchandise.
Remember when everything came in glass jars and bottles instead of plastic? Ketchup, mayo, peanut butter, etc. I remember when yellow mustard came in a glass jar instead of a squeeze bottle. Of course, there are still some products that are packed in glass containers, but so many have switched to plastic.
MelsDiner at 11:42AM on 04/05/08
I have a comfortable collection of glass containers that I use and reuse. I'm not a fancier of the plastic stuff - it seems to me that it absorbs properties out of the contents and the big question....is it safe after sitting in the refrigerator for a spell?
the largest picture reminds me of a store in Healdsburg, CA - Anstead's
it's actually a nutrition and health food/wholly organic store, but the back produce display looks almost exactly like that. pricey and delicious choices.
suegsf at 4:23PM on 04/05/08
@suegsf - I wonder the same thing about plastic bottles and jars. On the one hand, plastic containers reduce shipping costs because they're lighter, they can be more readily made from recycled material (people do recycle glass but do they do so to a greater extent than plastic?), they result in less damaged product because they don't break during shipping or shelf stocking, they also result in less cleanup at stores when shoppers accidentally drop a glass jar or knock one off the shelf (I am red-faced because I accidentally knocked a jar of pickles from a store shelf once that required the staff to clean it up - I felt so bad!) so they're arguably more safe in that respect but...they're made from petroleum products and there's the food safety question.
At any rate, I love the look of that market in the pictures. I feel too young to be nostalgic but it's happening more and more all the time! :)
MelsDiner at 8:59PM on 04/05/08