In 1916, entrepreneur Clarence Saunders invented America’s first self-service grocery store, a truly revolutionary idea that swept across the country and then the world. Now, a little over a century later, the American self-service grocery store is dying, but not for a reason anyone could have predicted.
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Death of a Civilization: The End of American Self-Service Grocery Stores
In 1916, entrepreneur Clarence Saunders invented America’s first self-service grocery store, a truly revolutionary idea that swept across the country and then the world. Now, a little over a century later, the American self-service grocery store is dying, but not for a reason anyone could have predicted.