1928 Piggly Wiggly advertisement

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Comments

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I do wonder what the founder of the chain was on when he came up with the name :)

[mary-shelley77.livejournal.com]

I wondered that, too. I've been past the site of the very first Piggly Wiggly in downtown Memphis, but I can't remember the details too well.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

I know - the tone of the whole ad is so dignified and classy, and then
PIGGLYWIGGLY
PIGGLYWIGGLY
PIGGLYWIGGLY
grunt grunt SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE

[tabaqui]

How amazing, she can THINK FOR HERSELF.

*snerk*

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

Piggly Wiggly was actually the first grocery store to introduce "self-serve" shopping. Before that you would give your list to a clerk to fill your order for you.

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

Yup. A number of ads from this period and even later instructed the shopper to "ask your grocer" for the specific brand advertised. A Kellogg's ad from a few years before this -- I'll have to scan it and post it -- shows a child coming home from the store with the Wrong Brand:

When Johnny comes
Marching home again
With a common
Imitation -

Send Johnny a
Marching back again
With a note of
Explanation -

Then, underneath that, handwritten:

Never send me anything but Kellogg's - the Original Toasted Corn Flakes