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Volume 9, Issue 46 - Feature #3145

DoubleO Sims Grocery

When I was a small child, my dad worked at a Humpty Dumpty grocery store in Oklahoma City, and I was told later that I always referred to the store's name as Humpety Dumpety (hump-eh-tee dump-eh-tee). Dad's twin brother worked at a competing store at the time and his boss had noticed that folks would carry small wicker baskets through the aisles to 'gather' their groceries and he (Sylvan Goldman) created a cart on wheels with larger baskets installed in order to sell more groceries in his store. Thus, the shopping cart was invented and then he also started a company which made shopping carts for other stores. I have a card given to my parents (by the Sylvan Goldman family) when I was born congratulating them on my birth and enclosing a $5 bill for my bank. This was the same as 5 days (10 hours per day) wages for my dad!

Roy Kendrick - 2007-11-19 11:50:50

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