[liberalnot]

i remember going to a piggly wiggly with my relatives in colorado about 1951-53.

it was much like what we expect these days in supers, but it lacked a bakery, deli, etc., which the authors of the vons article cite as a requirements for a "supermarket", developed by the vons brothers in 1941.

so, there you have it.

[PAR35]

Using a definition of an in-store bakery, I didn't shop in a supermarket until about 1992.

If you're ever in Memphis, you can visit a mock up of the first P-W in the museum on Mud Island. It's about the size of a small 7-11.