Clarence Saunders
About Clarence Saunders
Clarence Saunders was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. Saunders worked for most of his life trying to develop a truly automated store, developing Piggly Wiggly, Keedoozle, and Foodelectric store concepts.
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It was called Piggly Wiggly in Tennessee. No one ever knew why he called it that. The founder was someone called Clarence Saunders, and he launched this shop with a beautiful. and he gave free flowers and balloons to all the kids who came, and he'd never explained why he called it Piggly Wiggly. He did once. Was this why he said he just thought it was a funny word so people would talk about it?
from No Such Thing As A Hummingbird With A Greggs Steak Bake, 2017-12-08 at 00:15:24 · read transcript
Other times Clarence Saunders came up
It's 1937. Oh. Wow. It's found by Clarence Saunders. Any of you guys remember him?
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- Thorpe Park · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 44.8745, -65.2573