Future Meijer Chairman, Fred Meijer, age 14, starts also, bagging groceries. Mao Tse-tung starts his long march to save his army.
Prohibition comes to an end.
Hendrik places a newspaper advertisement among the items, a large box of Corn Flakes for 11 cents. With Adolf Hitler in attendance, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin. The Depression still lingers, yet Meijer is able to acquire its first shopping carts the latest in grocery store innovation. By 1945, half of all Meijer associates are women. The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.