You can see that the Internet might not have much effect on the quality of your morning cantaloupe. The obvious way to structure this part is chronologically. Then the money machines. If current trials are successful, shoppers will soon have the opportunity to scan their own groceries, rather than watch the blur of a checker s hands flash before them. The other solution to shoppers is e-fulfillment to meet their needs.
Baby boomers can dimly recall a time when the corner grocer did it all.
The fellow was an expert at customer intimacy. He was on a first-name basis with his customers. He knew and anticipated their preferences their cuts of meat, whether they liked their tomatoes soft or firm and how many loaves of bread they bought each week. The supermarkets of the 1950s hit the corner grocer with a torrent of variety and a hailstorm of discounted prices. Women switched roles from Rosie the Riveter, wartime factory worker, to June Cleaver, suburban housewife.