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Supermarket shopping in the 1980s

Offering large assortments, product departments, self-service, discount prices and targeted marketing, American-style supermarkets took post-war Europe by storm. By the 1980s, they were ubiquitous in cities across the continent.

Wakefield Council

Marks and Spencers food store, Pontefract. Photograph courtesy of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.

National Library of Israel

Head of the Israeli Consumer Council Ada Levanon visiting a supermarket checking product prices.; המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני; File Record

Toy Museum of the City of Nuremberg

We buy a; Supermarket & Regal & Ware & Woman: Mother & Girl: Daughter

Dublin City Library and Archive

Colour photograph of Jacob's employee, [Colette Dremms] at a product sampling stand for Chocolate Dreams in a supermarket. Handwritten on the back of the image; 'ref to ruth'.

Dublin City Library and Archive

The display showcases a selection of Jacob's products and their prices. They include; Coconut Cream, Kimberley and Choc Mallow. The tagline underneath reads; 'Caps the lot this Christmas!' alongside a cartoon of Santa Claus.

National Library of Israel

Rabbi Baba Baruch of Netivot came to the Shekem's new Supermarket opening ceremony. Photo shows: Rabbi Baba Baruch of Netivot came to the Shekem's new Supermarket opening ceremony.; המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני; File Recor…

Wakefield Council

Hillards Supermarket, staff presenting prize television. Photograph courtesy of the Pontefract and Castleford Express.

Austrian National Library

View of the fruit department.

Austrian National Library

In the case of frozen products.

National Library of Israel

The information about the photograph was provided by the creator of the collection, Mr. Dan Hadani; File Record

Csorba Győző Library - Pécs

Photos of the supermarket in Uránváros. The building was designed by architect József Erdélyi. (3 photos); Kistelegdi Collection; István Kistelegdi, the Ybl-prize winner architect and professor emeritus of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Techno…

Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organization

Due to the terrorist attacks of the so-called gang of Nivelles which made many victims, special dispositions were taken for the security in the super-markets during the week-ends.

Municipal Archive, Schiedam

Interieur van een filiaal van supermarkt Albert Heijn. Door een aanbieding is een tekort aan thee ontstaan.; Zie advertentie RD 14 september 1983

National Library of Israel

Israelis celebrate Consumers day. Most supermarkets were crowded with long lines at the pay counters and shopping carts filled with basic goods on the Consumers day. Photo shows Shoppers crowd a Tel Aviv supermarket in anticipation of price rises.; המידע …

Belgian Radio-television of the French Community

This sequence compares supermarkets and retailers in the field of clothing brands and examines misleading advertising in supermarkets.

Belgian Radio-television of the French Community

Booming of supermarkets in Belgium. Archive on the opening of the first supermarket of the kingdom 25 years ago.

Municipal Archive, Schiedam

De achterzijde van een supermarkt aan de 's-Gravelandseweg met een aantal winkelwagentjes.

Wakefield Council

This press photo was captioned "The Mayor of Wakefield's opening of the new Glass Houghton ASDA store had to be postponed when high winds removed part of the roof. Photograph courtesy of the Pontefract and Castleford Express."

National Audiovisual Archive

By the decision of the Council of Ministers - as of January 9 - the price of food products is raised on the average by 16-17%. Interview with the manager of the Skála Metro hypermarket in Budapest. On an average day, as he told, 15,000 costumers did shopp…

International Institute of Social History
Klaipėda County I. Simonaitytė Public Library
Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Prices on foodstuffs have increased so drastically after the repeal of the price freeze in February that real wages risk further erosion, according to statements from The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions’s senior economist, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.

National Audiovisual Archive

As prices are rumoured to go up a shopping frenzy broke out in the Kispesti Shopping Center. Punters have practically plundered the shop especially its chemical products; the demand for washing powder has been sky-high. Following rumours that prices will …

Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Small discount stores with modest assortments and facilities that resemble warehouses have truly gained a foothold on the Danish market.

National Audiovisual Archive

Not only the meats and meat products rumoured to become more expensive will cost more as of 05 September 1989 but the price of several Hungarian chemical products (like washing powder), spices and several wines will go up by 10-15%. With growing prices of…

Belgian Radio-television of the French Community

The second part of the program shows the retailer’s opinion : a balance between retailers and supermarkets must be found, otherwise there will be a bad competition. But higher prices in retail shops are justified because of better and more specific servic…