This supermarket time machine will take you back to the grocery aisles of 1971. The video includes footage of everyday shoppers inside a USA supermarket 5 decades ago. There's something so uncanny about watching old footage of people doing mundane tasks. I feel like I'm spying on the people in the video. Little did they know that one day there would be a thing called Youtube or Boing Boing, and that their trip to the grocery store would be viewable to the people of the future.
This supermarket time machine will take you back to the grocery aisles of 1971
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