Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Wake Wednesday - When Piggly Wiggly came to Raleigh: a new kind of grocery store!

Seems he was right. Just a quick dash through any modern grocery store will tell you that. 

Now in a post-covid world, it seems like the list and collect model is returning too with the ease of internet ordering and delivery. What goes around, comes around...

Link through to this post about the Piggly Wiggly stores in Raleigh. The first opened in Raleigh in 1921. The store featured in the image below was located in the Cameron Park Apartment building on Hillsborough Street. Image is circa 1940. 

View this Olde Raleigh on Facebook post here to read the whole story.


Clarence Saunders, Founder: 
“If you see something you want to buy of your own free will that you can exercise without argument with anyone, without persuasion from anyone, without intimation from anyone, without suggestion from anyone, without mental contact with anyone whatsoever,”  

 Enjoy other images of nostalgic shopping trips including Piggly Wiggly, other Raleigh grocery stores, and department stores at the Flicker page of NCArchives Albert Barden Collection. Have fun browsing!

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