Whether they visited a general store or a supermarket, Nebraskans have been grocery shopping for many decades. You can explore Nebraska Memories to find many images of grocery stores and their customers.
How do you think the grocery shopping experience at this Omaha store in the late 1930s or early 1940s differed from your own? (Wentworth, William,
Women shopping in grocery store, The Durham Museum collection, 1930-1945)
What about shopping at this general store in the early 1900s? (Nelson, John,
Family in shop, Nebraska State Historical Society collection, 1907-1917).
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Did you notice the clothes the shoppers were wearing? Fine fur coats, hats, dresses, I can’t see the pearls but maybe they’re there under the coats. I know that the lifestyle was different back then and people dressed up more for any activities outside of the home or even in the home for that matter. Now a days you see people (younger people than I) wearing pajama pants & slippers to the store. Time (and styles) have changed, better or not don’t know, I do know that it is easier to throw on some clothes and head for the store and what you do wear is more comfortable. Maybe a blog post that shows shoppers from back then to later then to now, kind of like stepping though time in the grocery store would be “educational”. Oh Yeah, and I may have been a vegetarian if I had to look at dead chickens & geese where I shopped.
I think we will see easy payment services in the future more online shopping world. This story is very interesting because it is related to some of the trends we see in online shopping areas; There will be some major changes in the online shopping industry over the next few years.