Retailing
UK Shopping: 1949
Halfway to Christmas!
Source: Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 29 Jun 1949, Wed Page 3
Uncle Holly apparently dates to 1950:
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Info on Ginger Nutt here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 02, 2021 -
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Category: Holidays, Advertising, Retailing, Myths and Fairytales, Cartoons, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, United Kingdom
The Traveling Candy Store
I must confess that the notion of a vehicle that brings candy directly to you had never occurred to me before. But what a great idea!Here's the tale of a modern incarnation.
Here's their website, with an itinerary.
And here's the tale of someone who had the idea 100 years ago! (Scroll up.)
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 19, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Retailing, Motor Vehicles, Travel, Candy, 1920s
Mall with Indoor Canal
Singapore mall features indoor canal with rentable boats.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 29, 2019 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Retailing, Asia
Grocery Store with Moving Shelves
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 17, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Retailing, Chindogu, 1930s
Mystery VHS Pack
For $40, Urban Outfitters is offering a mystery 5-pack of VHS tapes, which means they send you 5 VHS tapes of their choosing. Though, at least, you get to choose the genre (horror, romance, etc.).I guess that's one way to get rid of their inventory of old VHS tapes that, evidently, people aren't otherwise buying.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 20, 2019 -
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Category: Television, Retailing
A Forecast of Amazon?
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 23, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Retailing, Futurism, 1950s
Eddie the Elegant Elephant
The elephant was brought to Marshall Fields in Chicago as a publicity stunt. She was to rubber stamp copies of a new children's book called THE ELEGANT ELEPHANT. Unfortunately, the elephant did not want to get back on the elevator to leave the building after the book signing. They were forced to build a ramp to the third floor for the elephant to walk down to leave Marshall Field's.
Read the story at much greater length, with many pix, here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 15, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Advertising, Retailing, Books, 1940s
Tavern Trove
With over 35,000 items, ranging from beer cans to cocktail napkins, matchbook covers to letterheads and many other tchotchkes, the Tavern Trove site provides many happy hours of browsing into the weird niches of the liquor biz.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 10, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Retailing, Collectors, Alcohol
The Can Museum
It seems to me that you could profitably waste many hours exploring The Can Museum.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 05, 2017 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Culture and Civilization, Products, Retailing, Collectors
Easy Does It: Canned Goods Rule
The bad-acid-trip Good Fairy of Canned Vegetables talks about marketplace disruptions and paradigm shifts, and serves as Cupid. Be sure to enjoy the suicidal tomatoes plunging to their canned goods deaths.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 23, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Retailing, Food, Cartoons, 1940s
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