There would be no aisles to walk around and no selection you get to make. Let’s say you visited the general store, which would be the only store in your town (if you had one) and you wanted a candy bar. Piggly Wiggly sign today, from .īefore we learn about Piggly Wiggly, let us first read about what a grocery store looked like before 1916. Isn’t that wonderful? Let us take a step back in time and learn how a Tennessean named Clarence Saunders created the first supermarket, Piggly Wiggly. Have you ever entered a supermarket or a grocery store and been overwhelmed at the selection you can make? The candy aisle alone has hundreds of selections that YOU can pick from. Capital Maintenance and Improvements Grants.The Modern Movement for Civil Rights in Tennessee.Transforming America: Tennessee on the World War II Homefront.Understanding Women's Suffrage: Tennessee's Perfect 36.The Three Rs of Reconstruction: Rights, Restrictions and Resistance.The Lives of Three Tennessee Slaves and Their Journey Towards Freedom.The Age of Jackson and Tennessee’s Legendary Leaders.Cherokee in Tennessee: Their Life, Culture, and Removal.The Life and Times of the First Tennesseans.From Barter to Budget, Financial Literacy in Tennessee.Between The Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee Quilts.The State of Sound: Tennessee’s Musical Heritage.Lets Eat! Origins and Evolutions of Tennessee Food.
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Saunders changed the way stores did business, Freeman said. “When you went to a store, you called out your order to a clerk, and a clerk - listening to you - gathered what you wanted and then you paid,” said Mike Freeman, who has written about the rise and fall of Piggly Wiggly founder Clarence Saunders. In those days, people didn’t used to pick up their own items in a store. The first Piggly Wiggly opened in 1916 in Memphis. One developer has studied putting apartments and retail space there. Sutton said she sees Piggly Wiggly as the latest victim of the city’s changing landscape. “Probably have to catch a bus to go down to Kroger or Walmart, or pay somebody to take you,” she said. Now, she and other tenants are unsure how they’ll get by.
She went to the Piggly Wiggly about three times a day on her motorized wheelchair, she said. Sutton lives two blocks away from the store that closed at a public housing building for the elderly and people with disabilities. The store closing is especially tough for Gwendolyn Sutton, who has a hard time walking. The store filled a critical need for some residents who don’t have easy access to groceries. Although the chain has two more locations in Nashville and hundreds across the country, community members said the closure feels personal. This Piggly Wiggly closed its doors for good in April. “Everybody down here is on a first-name basis,” Blair said. In the last week that the Piggly Wiggly near Nashville’s downtown was open, Ken Blair, a regular, said the store reminded him of the small mom-and-pop shops he used to go to.
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