30 GROCERY STORE Things Only Baby Boomers Will Remember 

Soo... I guess this just applies to those who are baby boomers and not maybe gen x born int he 70s?

Frenchs MUSTARD (a small glass jar)....HOSTESS cupcakes.....THREE COLOR (Rainbow) Popsicles....Frozen PILLSBURY Biscuits.....REAL Orange Juice (in glass gallons) that the same MILKMAN delivered to our house...ETC..ETC....Im gonna cry

Roaming the toy aisle while my mom shopped. When I got a bit older, I liked to browse the record section.

Mrs. Dash was ok, but the seasoning MY family really misses is Vegit. It was a mushroom based seasoning that we used in and on almost EVERYTHING. There are SO many of our family recipes I just can't get to taste right anymore because they no longer make Vegit.

Where can I purchase Tang?

I still have one I use to keep old silver dollars in.

I’m a Millennial (1985) and remember Quik in the metal can with needing the spoon to open the top. It lasted into the 1990s. Saltines also used to come in a metal tin.

Nestles makes the very best.......Chooock....lat.

I remember this too!! As well as the metal International Coffee tins. They used to have a bunch of flavors. They were big before Starbucks.

Nestle's Quik has been around since the 50s

Oh yea, pasting the stamps in the books, going through the Green Stamp catalog, the Green Stamp store, etc..

Sure do, my folks took my sister and I to Disneyland on them back in the 60’s

Blue chip stamps were a thing as well. What happened to this world, we took a wrong turn somewhere.

Me too it was my job to paste them in the books I miss those days terribly 😢the blue chip store we used to go to was near Hollywood and is now a habitat for humanity shop.

And "Wise Owl" (

Glass shaped?

that and other brands in the little colored tin cans shaped like a cabin in the maple woods!!

Yes and my Mom always made hash and eggs with the leftovers on Monday for dinner.

And the dinner table would be set, the house spotless, and my Mom would have her hair done up and a nice dress on .... all ready for my Dad when he would get home from work. She would go "big" grocery shopping once a week and send my Dad out for "little" shopping if we needed anything else.

Also born in 1956. My mom worked full time, and only cooked on the weekends. My dad worked a swing shift and didn't get home till around midnight during the week. Mom would cook simply during the week, and dad's meal was left in the fridge for when he got home. (Jan Griffiths).

The adults in my home were at bars all the time. Only in foster care did I have parents who were actually parents.

Those were the days

Agreed !

They didn't do that when I was a kid. If you wanted donuts you went to the bakery. Doing them onsite really ruined the quality of the products.

Do you make sure to patronize the smaller grocery stores in your town to keep them alive?? I do.

@@debralittle1341 That was my hometown market as well back in the late '60s. The independent bakery was sandwiched between the ShopRite grocery store on one side, and the independent drugstore on the other

I'm not sure about wine, but I remember the hard stuff wasn't.

I sure do.

Also, all the stores closed by 7 pm, with many closing before that!

Not every state allows wine to be sold in grocery stores - mine doesnt. Fyi.

It was wonderful having every Sunday off and family get togethers

I was at hobby lobby one day and I saw a woman in her housecoat and slippers, I turned and walked away.

@@karengordon6610 This is a new world we live in now for sure

@@sherrielynn5761 I stopped my clock in 1966 and never rewound it.

this is one thing that makes me as mad as hell people need to show some pride and respect.

Pajama bottoms piss me off!!! I used to think the occasional woman being seen having to run out for pantyhose or something last minute in her curlers and house dress and thought how tacky it was. I'd love for the 30's and 40's fashions to return for men and women who are so gross with their a** falling out of their way too shorts whose daughters shorts match 🤢🤢😡😡

Love it when the cashier forgets to enter amount tendered and the register doesn’t show the change. They literally freeze because they don’t know what to do.

@@joannemcmillan9201 LMAO! So true

I'm a cashier at Walmart. I've known how to make and count back change for years. I get put on the cash only lane quite often. (Jan Griffiths).

I remember when we learned how to count change in grade school. I think I was in fourth grade when I learned. I’ve never forgotten. Never had a short drawer either.

I was head cashier at a Dime Store Downtown in a small town!! Had to count that change back!! But there was a con thing, forgot what's its called but they would give you a $100 for an item that cost $1.63 in the process that you've handed back the change you they decide to give you $2 then they have their hand out you give them back their $100 so you just got screwed out of all that change from the first traction of the $100!! It happened to me town was full of folks shopping, Xmas time!! He had a suit on with beige dress coat. Just as soon as he left and to the door I realized he just did something that made my draw short!! I rang that bell to the boss how much to the penny he got and described him. He took my draw brought me a new one. I was right on the money as to how much he got from me. He got on the phone before counting to put the law and other stores on notice and he was caught!! I had to teach HS girls back around 2000... They had no ideal how to count back change and I had them on co-op program!!

And every checkstand had a rack had a rack with cigarettes because SO many people smoked back than.

and oh those cash register women!! their fingers flying pushing the plethora of keys!! I was always so impressed how they did it!!

Yes! Now the only deafening cacophony is the horrible music all of these stores always blast. Can't even enjoy shopping anymore. And remember how fast those skilled cashiers could ring-up your order? They were faster than these damn scanners being operated by unskilled lazy cretins today.

Yes awful loud music also at the gas pumps😢

I went to Walmart yesterday and they brought back the brown paper bags. 👏👏

I'm told that I was a rotten kid and would peel off the price stickers when riding in the grocery cart so we always needed price checks.

OMG, forgot about Dippity Do! Oh, Brylcream for men - a little dab will do you

@@susandickerson2663 What about "...an Aqua Velvet man?"

Back then it was so beautiful to be alive now it is 2024 and it seems like we are living in a real horror zombie movie.

Great source of joy back then

Dig dirty hands through the cereal to find the toy. Wanted the cereal for the toy.

AND sending in box tops for prizes or toys. I got a big U.S. map for mailing in box tops.

@@shawnkelly695 I eventually got the idea to dump the entire box into a large mixing bowl, then back into the box. The toy was always on the bottom, wasn't it.

Remember when they had records on the back of cereal boxes- you cut the cardboard back off the box and put it on your turntable?

Oh, ugh! That hideous blue flower Corelle Living Ware!!

My mom shopped on Wednesdays when it was double green stamp day. We always shopped at Piggly Wigglys 😂

I remember women wearing their hair in curlers, with a scarf or sheer hairnet or "babushka." Smoking was allowed in the store. Aisles were smaller and my Dad had a cigarette in his right hand, while pushing the cart and accidentally set some bread in plastic bread bags on fire! He threw them on the floor and stomped them out. Boy, was he embarrassed. I secretly smiled as it was kind of reassuring to see a grown up really mess up in public.

I remember when laundry detergent gave away glassware in the powdered detergent box. It had always migrated to the bottom lol. Tide, Gain, Ulta...

​@@anitapeludat256 Ha! I remember women in rollers, too, with scarves on... Friday and Saturday was "date night" and wives got fixed up.

Those thin metal ones lol Andy Griffin my TV dad 😂

Yeah, that's a memory for me too.

From what I remember gunsmoke was on Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. a little late for a TV dinner back then.

Or the "Million Dollar Movie"

​@@thecatatemyhomeworkmaybe he worked swing or graveyard and kept to his habits even on his day off 🤷🏻‍♂️ why split hairs on someone's fond memory, sheesh

And there are simply far too many of the same type of products 🤬🤬

@@Curbsidedreamer008 Yes! My mom had some of those towels!

I remember detergent in boxes!

​@@laurakibben4147 yup. Why not just have luxe and bargain brand detergent, shampoo, etc. Like literally, two or three brands. I don't want, nor need, an entire aisle of nothing but shampoo and conditioner.

​@@Curbsidedreamer008Ha! Looked it up, so that's where some of the hand-me-downs for college came from. Still have them too, though some are getting worn and faded.

Beautiful….. Did you find it nostalgic?

$0.98 in 1955 is worth $11.26 in 2024. That's $78.82 for the family (no tip).

my mom was a scratch cook. what she couldn't grow, she purchased locally. she canned, she froze, she dried and we ate well.

My mom worked at a mom and pop grocery store and my dad worked at Kroger Bakery (not the in store typr but the actual huge baking facility...bread and goodies). We always had food. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙂🙂🙂

TV dinners were a treat for us if my parents were going out. I don’t think they were that expensive, but were twice the size of what they are now. I was born in 59.😊

Us too. In BC, Canada. 🇨🇦🙋🏻‍♀️👍

When I was young in the 70's, I never saw a rude or insolent worker at any shop, restaurant or business. They'd have been let go...

My husband was the assistant manager of a grocery chain. We had great insurance, and never even noticed the premiums taken out of his pay. My doctor told me I had the best insurance I could possibly have. It was great, it should be even better now. I don’t know how things could get so messed up when they used to be so good..

@@jenniferlloyd9574 now the workers have learned that they don’t have to work. They are doing you a favor if they do work. 80+ programs of welfare have provided them to live either way..

back in the days when workers were treated like family!!

Lol! Yes- our mom used to make us wear our Sunday best if we had to go to the doctor.

I had to wait for my mom to iron my cloths to go to the emergency room for a broken collar bone.

@@krispoli22 That is hilarious!

@@maguffintop2596 I had a motorcycle wreck and my uncle found me and took me home. Crazy

​@@krispoli22 I stuck a pitchfork through my foot (don't ask) and had to wait 20 minutes in the car while my mom put on lipstick, fluff her hair and got fixed up (change clothes). She was soooo annoyed because she had to rush. This was 1979...

I kinda think sugar still is the star of cereals. Try to find a low sugar cereal these days. Even the so called natural cereals are loaded with it

Red Rose only quit offering the ornament

Yes! Same in the States. Dolly Parton sold them on the Country show, with Porter. I can still hear her sweet voice say, "Boxes of Breeze."

I remember my mom buy ABC laundry soap.

I just bought some Red Rose tea from Amazon. I like it much better than Lipton. It has a smoother taste.

What would you love to buy again?

@@VintageTVShows hi some of the good old products we don't have now and just enjoy the vibe

Me too!

You had that one ever?

@@VintageTVShows Of course that's why I know that dads fed them to their kids when their wives were at Tupperware parties lol. My dad was actually a good cook, but TV diners were tasty, and it was fun to pick out which one we wanted.

@@carriesmith7460 lol....yep!!

Swanson turkey dinner with the cherry crisp dessert

Bet you bought a box of cereal either for the prize inside or the latest 45 paper record you could cut out from the back of the box (I had The Archies Sugar Sugar paper record for many years).

​@@charlesfcopeland9756 I had Sugar Sugar, the Jackson 5's ABC, and the Monkee's theme song.

Born in 1961 and I enjoyed all the GREAT things you mentioned. But I never knew what my foster mom would get with those S&H Green stamps. I helped here put them in the books though, lol.

Compared to today you walk into a grocery store and people dressed like they just rolled out of bed

My mom also collected the green stamps and would have us kids paste them into the books for them. I remember those jelly glasses with the Flintstones!

Oh yes!!

What do you miss the most about those great days?

@@VintageTVShows I miss employees being kind and helpful, the safe foods, nestle chocolate powder and ovalteen, you could go shopping by yourself for mom and the employees would watch over you.

Many do it seems.

Sounds like you hate working people

@@fastcharger3314 in the older days you had to be polite and courteous to the customers or you would be terminated, that’s what customers service is about. Nowadays people are lazy and rude, people should get jobs that are suitable for them…

Nostalgic

yes!! real toys!

Yeah, you had to get to the cereal box and get it before your siblings.

Yes they should be there for convenience of buyers

​@@VintageTVShows Especially considering what we pay nowadays.

I remember the little Bonita Store (southern California, little town of Bonita), when I was just three or four years old. The butcher would always hand me a free weiner after filling my parents' meat order. I enjoyed that, and I was always reminded to say, "Thank you."

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

Yes root beer fizzies loved them , great shakes and Bosco chocolate syrup wonderful memories ❤ Queens NY ❤

remember, when the TV zonked out at 8:09PM, going down to the local electronics store with your father to get new tubes?? Your father sticking the tubes into the tube tester??

donna... hey! you remember Bosco syrup also! 💯👍

@@donnaruckel1627 I recall a not-so-nice little ditty that some kid made up a about Bosco: "I hate Bosco. It's rich in Vitamin C. Mama put it in my milk to try to poison me! I fooled Mama. I put it in her tea -- Now there's no more Mama to try to poison me!" Kids were always making up gross lyrics to parody some well known song or nursery rhyme. To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, they would sing the refrain thusly: "Glory, glory, hallelujah! Teacher hit me with a ruler! I turned around and hit her with a rotten tangerine! Our gang goes marching on ...." We all thought it was so funny!

Gen X here and you're right. We thrived on this era. I remember very clearly.

@@jenniferlloyd9574 Yes we did!

Stores expanded their inventories to other things beside groceries because consumers demanded it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have done so.

$50 was worth a lot more then!

It was like that until 2005. Right when George bush sold our country to you know who

That reminds me when I went to the store with my mom and granny. They had brown grocery bags with store brand bread in it at Safeway and my granny had a melt down on the price. Four loaves for $1.00. I often wonder how her reaction would be today at the price of bread. LOL🤣🤣

Today the thugs will sell you $50 groceries in a single plastic bag.... Sad.

$50 in 1975 is equal to about $290 today, inflation is crazy!

That must be a hasle

@@VintageTVShows You just made sure that you filled up your car gas tank on Saturday.

Sundays were relaxing: church and then families got together to eat

@@homethatilove4595 That's how I remember it.

In South Africa petrol stations closed on Friday evenings and opened Monday mornings during the oil embargo and Apartheid era.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

The Spirit of 76.

Good old days…. Right?

I loved the 5 & Dime store.

@@margarettickle9659 Yes, nothing like them anymore. Dollar stores don't count . Not the same .

Woolworths!

I remember those days well. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid. I remember when Kmart opened, and worked for one for 3 years while attending college. I still have the turquoise smock I wore. Mom and I would take the bus on Saturdays to downtown Dearborn to shop. She didn't drive. (Jan Griffiths).

Thanks for sharing!

That's so right. If we misbehaved we didn't get to go back to the store for a year. We were watched by a neighbor or the opposite parent.

I know, right? I see this all the time at Walmart where I work. Kids are in charge now, and the parents don't do a darn thing about it. If I acted that way when I was a kid, I would have been punished right there and then. (Jan Griffiths).

It's also bad on airplanes. Kids will kick the backs of the seats in front of them and thoroughly annoy the passengers sitting in them. And the parents will do absolutely nothing! In fact, if you dare tell the kid to stop it or complain to the parents, YOU can get in trouble! It's somehow YOU who are causing trouble and NOT the inconsiderate, ill-mannered kid or indifferent parents. The days of fairness are OVER, Folks!

@@jrnfw4060 That happened to me once during a flight. I told the stewardess, and she said something to the parents. I had no further trouble. The kid and I both fell asleep. (Jan Griffiths).

Same here!

Wow… Beautiful memories! What else you remember?

​@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.

​@VintageTVShows The BEST memory of Grocery stores in the 60s?. Going to the coffee isle mom would select a bag of coffee that was not ground and then take the bag to the coffee grinder and dump the coffee beans in. That wonderful smell!¡!. Dare I say it It made me hungry!!!!.

Mrs. Dash?

Remember A & P? Walking into the store you would smell the coffee getting ground at the check out. Amazing smell.

Thanks for sharing!

I was born in the '80s and I'm shocked at how far customer service has fallen just in the last decade or so, and especially since COVID. Almost everyone is really rude now. I'm shocked when I receive good service at a restaurant.

My daughter is a cashier at a grocery store and is amazed at the rudeness of people on both sides! Customers often go to managers to praise her for being helpful and kind.

AMEN! This is unfortunately true of every type of business with customers such as fast food and retail. I complain if someone is rude or dismissive to me. Like you, I worked in those positions and would never have treated customers so shabbily!

I recently told the cashier it was okay to slow down. She was in a hurry, long line and only 2 cashiers. She said management told them zero socializing, no greetings, "Did you find everything alright?" Is the only greeting, just scan and bag. "Have a good day." And if someone is looking for something they couldn't find, therr is no time allowance to actually locate an item.

That was a treat and I loved getting the prize, although most were stupid sometimes you'd get a baseball card or something cool

They were good! And fun!

and the sugary drink in those little wax imitation pop bottles?

@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Do you remember the bubble gum cigarettes? They looked like real filtered cigarettes. The paper looked like a real cigarette and if ya was careful you could get a “puff of smoke” out of it if you didn’t get the end in your mouth wet. If you blew air out, it pushed out a little puff of powdered sugar and we thought we were so big & bad “smoking”. 😂

You, too? We kids had those, and I loved pretending they were real cigarettes and "smoking" them along with my folks when they smoked the real thing. They tasted pretty good, too.

Good old times … right?

Did you ever get the towels in the laundry powder box?

Aluminum cups were the best. Kept the milk ice cold.

My grandparents had aluminum cups in every color. They had hard well water. Between the aluminum and the minerals in the water, all of my silver fillings acted up.

I remember biting into both margarine AND savory gelatin molds at my elders' places... and either gagging or spitting them out! I mean, isn't margarine just a millimeter away from being plastic?

And the news was always telling you to eat it to lose weight. Evil is correct!

@@jenniferburchill3658 Remember something called "tomato aspic" ? Ooook! It was awful!

@@michaelschabow2911 Salmon mousse was even WORSE. That stuff was basically lutefisk minus the lye!

Aspic was gelatin that was mostly beef flavored. It was used a lot for the molded savory dishes. Aspic and jello are both gelatin, but aspic is not jello. And it was gross.

I still have a couple of those glasses. (Jan Griffiths).

@@douglasgriffiths3534 me too. They’re well made, heavy duty little juice glasses. They had a Looney Tunes series too. I have Tom & Jerry and Foghorn Leghorn. Love them all.

Thanks for sharing

As a kid, I would do that also. My parents had a station wagon. Sometimes aunts, uncles, and cousins would go too, and all of us kids were in our pjs. (Jan Griffiths).

We did that too only we’d sometimes get a bucket of KFC and all the fixins to go with. Nothing more fun than dinner and a movie outside, in pajamas with our sleeping bags in front of the car. Great memories. Sometimes we’d just get the drive in pizza or hamburger or hotdog? They were all good in those days. They also made good FF. The drive-in’s kitchen wasn’t big and they didn’t sell but those few items, but they were consistently good. One movie I recall watching was The Apple Dumpling Gang. Don Knotts… so funny. Happier times.

I think it was, Nestles makes the very best,

Do you like the taste?

Whenever I did that that made me cough and the chocolate powder would go flying all over the place. But that didn't stop me. I think all kids did that at one time or another.

My husband was born in ‘79 I was born in ‘77. I loved Nestle, but you could never get into that without Mom and Dad knowing..

​@@christyparr1563Hi, kiddies 😊

I think we could also get Nestlie's Quik in strawberry flavor. We always had the chocolate in our home, and we really enjoyed it.

Herbal Essence was Spanish Fly....ohhhh yeahhh.

Gee your hair smells terrific! 😁

@@Overprotected1111 I wish they would bring that back. I used it all the time, both shampoo and conditioner. (Jan Griffiths).

@@breeinatree4811 You might find that original scent at a place called “Vermont Country Store”, just google it. I know they used to have “Gee your hair smells terrific”. I’ve bought it there and it was the same as it always was. The Vermont country Store sells a lot of nostalgic items. You might find the Herbal Essence there too.

Me too

Did it make you feel nostalgic?

Me too. Everything is run by corporate bs now.

Waldbaums and Edwards

We were lucky we had both A&P and a First National. Not lucky now.

I see these on old television shows and wish we had those today. Or the butcher on Andy Griffith show. My mom used to talk about soda shops, and I have seen these in old movies to. They look like a fun place to hang out. Wish I could have experienced these things.

I used to love Banquet fried chicken.

I guess with many homes getting microwave ovens, using aluminum pans could be problematic. My mom found that out the hard way when we got our microwave in the mid-70's.😫

The microwave oven, no metal objects

This is. Pretty weak reason to justify all the harm plastics do. I believe soft drinks in glass bottles lasted into the early 1980s. At least in the 2 liter size especially.

starm... so true!!

@@billyt9830 Aluminum can build up to toxic levels inside the body with continuous use. I had a test done on me for metals, and aluminum was the highest of all of them. We got rid of our aluminum pans after that.

My local store still sells Ovaltine chocolate mix.

True. They definitely still had the metal can in the 80's.

Sweet memories… right?

Stores had a small animal ride, coin-operated.

Not a discount store anymore

@@choossuck7653 Now a outsourcing retail giant selling CCCP items.

Good old days! You must have a great bond with your grandparents haven’t you?

That sounds like she had access to good quality food from good quality people. Very nice.

I sell my over production from my garden at the farmers market. I make good money, and all of my veggies are organic. I very rarely bring stuff back home. I love farmers markets. It's a shame that ours is only once a month. (Jan Griffiths).

Thanks for sharing! Yes good old days indeed

Yep, I remember the good old days when my family did that. I was an only child, but we bought a lot of food, and did our big shopping every 2 weeks. 64 dollars was really quite a bit for that time. Don't forget--wages were also lower back then. Hardly anyone made even 10 dollars an hour back then. My dad came close at $8.50 an hour, and mom $7.00 an hour. Dad drove a city bus, and Mom was a nurse. (Jan Griffiths).

I was born in 59. My Mom would shop & spend so much money. But, when I was 11 I had to buy groceries & cook for the family. 7 in our family. My Dad would drop me at the store, with $160.00 so I could buy what our family needed for the week. He worked all the time & had to run errands while I shopped. He always said I spent so much less than my Mom. I knew what everyone in the family liked so I bought it all. Dinners were what I liked & could cook.

Didn’t you ask her, why she didn’t like butter?

​@@VintageTVShows I was five or six at that time. Kids don't think of those things and it was a long time ago😊 There may have been a price difference too, I really don't know. I just found your channel, and Subscribed.

That’s about the time that the big cholesterol scare began…dairy products became “dangerous.” I agree with this comment. Margarine is nasty!! I’d not cook with it unless forced to. It’s basically plastic. 😮

My grandparents on both sides lived in Wisconsin, so I went there all the time growing up. At one point they were allowed to buy 'oleo' but it was COLORED so as to not compete with butter...red, blue, green - looked like rectangular crayons.

Margarine and shortening (like Crisco and Spry) supposedly make better baked goods than butter. Another possibility of why she gpt it instead of real butter

Thank goodness. I never could open that corn beef can right.

Yes! Our local grocery store had a real bakery and a skilled butcher. Mom would request certain cuts or special roasts for holidays and he would prepare the meat exactly as she requested. The butcher lived in our neighborhood and would bring over peaches and apricots from his trees to our mom.

Or the aromas you do smell are chemical and pumped out into the air…like the do at theme parks, etc.

Fan of it?

@@VintageTVShows I was at the time. I don’t think I had chocolate milk since I was a kid.

@@VintageTVShows I use it in baking recipes. Calls for it specifically.

Thanks for sharing

Yeah, I didn’t understand the video being cut into more recent commercials when they weren’t making any sense with the concept of the video

Narrator explains old era with Modern machinery 🤔 Weird! Flip-flopping

It was probably done with AI or that Chat tool thing.

Mentions Jif peanut butter and shows Skippy at 5:51

This is the most random video I think I’ve ever watched! New and old clips, pictures from the wrong eras, unexplained photos, and just all kinds of weirdness LOL

I bought a jug of Cheer detergent at my Walmart (I work there) the other day after work. It was the only one in the store---there wasn't even a shelf sticker for it. It still has that great Cheer scent, and cleans as well as I remember. I'm going to save it though---it's the only one I've seen for quite a while. (Jan Griffiths).

@@douglasgriffiths3534 yeah I haven't seen any in years

@@douglasgriffiths3534 i started using sun cause it was a close 2nd to cheer but it has disappeared since co v id

You could hear the little tune the truck chimed several blocks away, and knew it would soon be on your street. Grandpa often bought us ice cream from it.

What missed you tge most about that time?

They were much better back then

@@Crazychick64SO good 😋

My mother was a horrible cook. Thank goodness for TV dinners with their high fat and salt content.

Don't forget Swanson's "pot pies" ! Chicken, beef or tuna.

@@michaelschabow2911 tuna? I didn't know they were available in tuna that's gross

I'm in the USA & we have all those things as well. I think the video made it sound like the items mentioned were in the past, rather than saying those things came into use back then, & are still in use today. I doubt they even realized how it would come across to the viewer. 🤷‍♀️

@@Howiesgirl That’s hilarious 🤣

I live in the New York City area and we have all of those things.

We had the banana and oranges free fruit. The cardboard box display just said free fruit. I took a banana. They told me at the checkout (rudely, I add) that it was only for kids. Y'all didn't specify that when y'all decided to implement this. I just figured they were soon to go off or something. Maybe write the intent and not just "free fruit" on the display...🤷

We do still have quite a few of these. The video could have been better produced, frankly.

Ugh, I can't think of the actual name, but there used to be a shampoo based on beer 😂 just looked it up. It was called Body on Tap and was based on a Budweiser beer lol.

@@lisabishop6266 Body On Tap. That was one of my favorite shampoos it smelled fabulous!

I had to use prell one time to get the Vaseline out of my hair after slicking it back for a 50's dance!

It didn't. The pearl was in the commercials.

@@lisabishop6266 that was good shampoo. It didn’t smell like beer but it did smell really good and it cleaned my hair well. Pretty sure you can still get that at Vermont Country Store. They still sell original formulas of old vintage brands. They even had Tangee Lipstick. Remember that? It was orange colored in the tube, but when you put it on it was like the “mood rings”, it changed colors. VCS Also has a lot of vintage candies that you can’t find in the stores anymore. They also have a catalog to order from.

Before the debit cards I remember having to show the card called Honest Face.

Those things infuriate me. I could have had a check filled out and been down the road faster sometimes. Plus, you have to talk dirty to them, ROFL! "Oh, you stuck it in before I was ready, you'll have to pull it back out." "Ok, now put it back in." 😁😁😁 "Slide it in hard (or slower)" "You did it too hard, you'll have to take it back out."

​@@laurakibben4147that's hilarious! 😂🤣😂

The grocery store I work at (it was under a different name back in the 1990) was the first location in my state to take debit cards.

I remember Farmer Jack's. I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid, and there was one a few blocks away from our house. Was formerly a Food Fair. (Jan Griffiths).

Good old time…. Isn’t it?

You got good things for those green stamps.

My father practically furnished our house with them.​@@aliceputt3133

Thanks for sharing

And I loathed Kraft tv commercials. Gave my mother bad, bad, evil, terrible, godawful ideas.

Hope you see these things again!

I have a container in my pantry as we speak. Still buy it. It was yummy then. It's yummy now.

It's Nesquik now, but just as good. Chocolate and strawberry flavors. Most grocery stores sell it. (Jan Griffiths).

Good old times….. right?

My dad would go to the butcher and get free beef soup bones. I choked at the price of them last week.

Wish they still did that😃 There for a while I had to pay more per lb for wings than they were charging for breast meat. I swear you can gage food item prices by what’s trending on the RU-vid cooking channels. At the time wings in my area at least were through the roof, breast meat was cheaper than ever and there was a lot of them. You’d be lucky to find wings at all and if ya did they were twice the cost of any other parts of that chicken. Since the covid fiasco has died down prices have seemed to equal out some. Still high, but whatta ya gonna do🤷🏻‍♀️

e still have the same thing. Now they go by names like "air miles" and "loyalty points". Same idea except for the computer age.

Me too. And a magazine rack and a comic book rack too, as well as soap.

The toy aisle was small and mostly never sold brand name toys, plastic army men, generic action figures and dolls, yo yo's, paddle balls, balloons, cap guns, and stuff

@@jenniferanne4143 It must have varied by store. I definitely remember Barbie Dolls and Mattel Toys there. I got an Ideal Tubsy Doll (1967, she was battery operated, came with her own baby tub and moved her head and arms and splashed water) for my birthday that came from there. I also remember at Christmas time toys everywhere on the top of shelves

They were always a real treat. “Homemade” pizza at home, lol. You’d be lucky if you could find a box that had pepperoni in the sauce can. Mostly our stores only had the plain cheese for a long time. Now I notice Walmart usually has a good supply of both varieties. I loved those tiny pepperonis. I think cause they put them in the canned pizza sauce it made them more tender & flavorful. Plus all food just tasted better, before they started bioengineering all our food.

I remember Chef Boyardee boxed pizza! That was one of the worst things I ever ate!

@@user-gu7kk5zk2b Yeah it wasn't pizza joint level pizza, but our whole family was involved in making them so there was some value in them.

I was going to say that same thing.

When my best friend was diagnosed with high blood pressure, I gave her a gift of an assortment of Mrs. Dash products. My dear friend had never heard of or noticed them before, and she was terribly grateful.

Loved Fizzies! 🥤😂

Ugh! You hit on my pet peeve!!!!! Who are these people who think that the rest of us want their nasty saliva all over things that the rest of us touch???? No, I don't want to be exposed to your bodily fluids!!!! Please do not lick your fingers and transfer your spit to the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The arrogance of that behavior is off the charts!!!!!!

That would be the AI used to make it getting confused. AI scripts and editing seems to be flooding RU-vid lately.

@@RetroDaze AI (artificial "intelligence") is actually quite stupid.

Remember when they put the white pearl in the Prell shampoo?

@sharoncrawford7192 Thats right!! I think I kind of remember that too...I had to have been very young. Do you know what year they stopped putting the pearl in?

​@@sharoncrawford7192Lol. There was never an actual pearl in the bottle. They showed a pearl on TV ads for Prell. They dropped it in the bottle to show how thick the shampoo was.

@chrism1102 hmmm....really? I was young so.....

Good old days… right?

Saturday night at the movies. I had to go to bed when it came on. I cried every week at 9 p.m.

@@margarettickle9659 You think THAT was early. I had to go to bed at 8:30 every night! Talk about unreasonable!

Good old times…. Right?

When I was a kid in Dearborn Heights, MI, we had something similar to White Castle called The Giant System. They sold slider burgers for the same prices--10 cents for hamburgers, 15 cents for cheeseburgers, and 10 cents for an order of fries. Drinks were 10 cents for small, 20 cents for large, and shakes for 75 cents also. The burgers had grilled onions, ketchup, and mustard on them, and were so good. Fries too. When I visited NYC in 1979, I went to the same White Castle that appeared in the movie "Saturday Night Fever". Brought back memories of Giant System for me. (Jan Griffiths).

Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂

My dad would do the same thing with the coffee grinding machine that used to be in Safeway when we shopped there. It was fascinating to watch. Plus, we had a hand-cranked coffee grinder at home. It was red and its outer surface was textured. It made that rich grinding noise.