We have all been going to the grocery stores for as long as we can remember. They fulfil the basic needs of our daily life and were a daily routine of many people around the world. Apart from going to the grocery shops for buying grocery, many people also got together there simply to catch up on the daily neighborhood gossip. However, this is not the case anymore. People no longer go to the grocery stores to socialize but to simply get what they need. On the other hand, there are some people who simply avoid going to the grocery stores altogether and simply order their groceries online. Take a moment from your busy lives and take a walk down memory lane with these pictures of some vintage grocery stores.

Northland Food, The 1970s

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Inside the Thief River Falls, Minnesota, customers mill about before selecting a cashier. This was a common practice a few decades ago. Notice the huge registers and produce scales right at the registers. Northland had it all.