[Lorianne]

[NonValueAdded]

And Walmart is offering tbe old model of placing your order and pucking it up.

[Nifster]

Loved my local PW growing up

[Ann Archy]

I remember shopping with my mom and they would weigh out the flour, the sugar, etc., and when they brought in grocery carts OMG it was unbelievable!!

[real saxophonist]

If you watch the movie ‘Close Encounters’, there’s a Piggly Wiggly truck headed toward Devil’s Tower. There are no Piggly Wigglys in Wyoming or Colorado.

[Grimmy]

Heh.

I’ve never thought about the evolution of shopping methods before. That was quite interesting.

Thanks for posting that article.

[SamAdams76]

My first experience at a Piggly Wiggly was in 1975 while visiting my grandmother in Alabama. She lived deep in the hollows of Sand Mountain in northern Alabama and very rarely ventured into "town" - which was about 20 miles away as she pretty much lived off her land, canning her produce in hundreds of Mason jars and keeping venison, chicken and quail in a deep freezer (and a stocked catfish pond that she would often send me to with a fishing rod). But occasionally she did have herself driven to the supermarket to get odds and ends.

I was 12 years old and remember laughing out loud when we pulled into a Piggly Wiggly. What a stupid name! But once inside, I saw that it was a supermarket that rivaled anything I had back in the sophisticated North. I especially remember the green and beige checkered tiled floor and how cold it was inside due to the air conditioning (something my grandmother never bothered with, despite nearly eight months a year of 90 degree weather). I got her to buy me a case of Dr. Pepper, which was a soft drink that was not yet available up North. And a couple bags of pork rinds as well.

[N. Theknow]

Louis Grizzard once wrote that Piggly Wiggly is now old enough to be renamed Hoggly Woggly.

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

We had some PW’s around the Chicago area years ago, I thought them out of business, but we stopped in a local Butera food store a few weeks back, and they had Piggly Wiggly water on sale.

[Yaelle]

I completely get how wonderful this really is. When I first lived in France all the shops had different categories, produce, or dairy, or meat. And you had to tell the clerk what you wanted and how much it would weigh. In kg and in French. When I first got there, it was pretty hard to shop!

[Davy Crocket]

My dad worked for Piggly Wiggly!!

[Rusty0604]

That was very interesting. Amazing that it was only 100 years ago that the self service grocery store started.

[A. Morgan]

79 Jefferson later became “Jefferson Square”, owned by Jake Schorr III.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

My first job was working for the Poggly Woggly.

[Cementjungle]

Since my family founded Acme Markets, I’m quite biased toward them instead of our competitor Piggly Wiggly.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Wait a minute. There wasn't a government agency or program that studied this new idea to the tune of millions of dollars and then another agency created that managed it and wasted more tax dollars?

What about diversity and fair wages back then? < /S >

[SharpRightTurn]

Great story. I have shopped in many Pigs but had not read their history.

[yarddog]

When we lived in Panama City in the early 1950s, there was a chain called “Jitney Jungle”. I have no idea where the name came from but the building was still there the last time I drove by.

It had a large round window.

[YogicCowboy]

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton.

[Gay State Conservative]

CARNAC: Piggly Wiggly

McMAHON: Piggly Wiggly

Rip!

CARNAC: Describe Kermit the Frog’s wedding night.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Pink Palace in Memphis (built as a mansion by Clarence Saunders) has a replica of the first Piggly Wiggly store.

One of the items on the shelves is mock turtle soup. Hard to find that in a store today.