SHELVES MOVE IN NEW STORE (Oct, 1933)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Oct, 1933
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Oct, 1933
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While this works well for sushi, I’m not so sure about groceries.
SHELVES MOVE IN NEW STORE
Comfortably seated in a self-service grocery store just opened in Los Angeles, Calif., a housewife selects her purchases from moving shelves of price-tagged merchandise that pass before her. The endless, motor-driven chain of shelves, makes a complete circuit in eight minutes— leisurely enough for the customer to make her choices and lift the articles from their shelves. When her basket is full, she pays the cashier.
As a woman with chronically tired feet, I can appreciate this. As a consumer who routinely skips many of the aisles of the grocery store, I’d have to pass, thanks.
Comment by Chakolate — May 17, 2007 @ 3:09 pm
Given the enormous number of different bagged, canned and boxed foods available at the supermarket these days, this wouldn’t be terribly practical.
Then again sometimes I wonder who buys 95% of the stuff at the supermarket.
Comment by Blurgle — May 17, 2007 @ 9:26 pm
While it’s true this would no longer be practical (or maybe it’s “would be even less practical nowadays”), I for one could definitely go for a chance to sit down (hopefully on something nicer than a stool) and leisurely pick out my vittles.
Comment by Jim Dunn — May 18, 2007 @ 5:21 am