![]() ![]() Under the old system the overhead had been 15 per cent the Piggly Wiggly overhead was three per cent. The self-service system cut $300 per month from expenses, and showed a gain of $80,000 in sales. In the first six months of the Piggly Wiggly occupancy, $114,000 business was done at an expense of $3,400. The Piggly Wiggly organization retained the clerks formerly used in the other store and had the same management, but put into effect its self-service system and its own equipment. ![]() For the six months immediately preceding the taking over of the building by the Piggly Wiggly concern, the sales of the former chain store had approximated $34,000 with an approximate expense of $5,200. The first Piggly Wiggly store in Memphis, Tenn., was opened in a building formerly occupied by one of a chain of twenty stores. As noted in a trade publication of the era, Piggly Wiggly was incredibly profitable right off the bat: In the U.S., goods were sold “over the counter” before the early 1920s, when a truly innovative concept, self-service shopping, came about thanks to a grocery store that’s still around today, Piggly Wiggly. We take advantage of it these days, but there was a time when grocery stores required employees to directly package goods for consumers. in the early 1920s and seeing something unfamiliar to him: A self-serve grocery store.Ī self-serve grocery store, like this Piggly Wiggly, proved deeply inspiring to the packaging industry. This story starts with a Swedish business school graduate studying in the U.S. Issues of cleanliness have become sources of innovation in the past, and a great example of this came from the company that gave us the juice box.īut we’re going to take a couple of detours before we get to that specific innovation, because we have to talk about another innovation first. And as we move past this pandemic, we’ll find new ways to keep things clean. ( retroweb/Flickr) How the grocery store Piggly Wiggly indirectly inspired the juice boxĪs we turn a corner around this pandemic, as infection numbers fall and vaccines become more common, cleanliness has become something of a defining message of how we’ll interact with the world going forward. Today’s Tedium is sponsored by Quantum of Solazzo, a fellow traveler in the newsletter space. When you’re done reading, you’ll be thirsty for more. Today’s Tedium ponders the lowly juice box. And as Buster Bluth would put it, it was off the hook. The Capri Sun, effectively a glorified ketchup packet, is a variant of the juice box, a paperboard-plus-foil product that has been produced in one form or another for nearly 60 years-specifically as juice boxes for about 40. (But I can quip that Capri Sun is watered-down Hi-C in 16.65 seconds.) That was something a 20-year-old dude named Declan Evans recently managed to do after noticing that Guinness World Records had set the benchmark for a record, but never actually tracked someone doing it. Today in Tedium: You know something I can’t do in 16.65 seconds? Drink a Capri Sun packet. Welcome to the list, all! Look forward to serving you with lots of tedious content. This past week has seen a surge of subscribers, in part thanks to a BBC Radio appearance by me. Inorganic arsenic has been detected at disturbing levels in other foods, too, which suggests that more must be done to reduce overall dietary exposure.Hey all, Ernie here with a piece on juice boxes. The report also mentioned that “Mounting scientific evidence suggests that chronic exposure to arsenic and lead even at levels below water standards can result in serious health problems. Samples tested were made from apple juice concentrate originating from multiple countries including Argentina, China, New Zealand, South Africa, and Turkey.35% of children 5 and younger drink juice in quantities exceeding pediatricians’ recommendations, our poll of parents shows. Apple and grape juice constitute a significant source of dietary exposure to arsenic, according to our analysis of federal health data from 2003 through 2008.Currently, no federal limit exists for lead in juice. The top lead level for apple juice was 13.6 μg/litre for grape juice, 15.9 μg/litre.One in four samples had lead levels higher than the FDA’s bottled-water limit of 5μg/litre.10% of apple juice samples had total arsenic levels exceeding 10μg/litre.Worst yet, these numbers were purely inorganic arsenic, the most carcinogenic kind. ![]()
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