Dominion Photo Co. photo, Vancouver Public Library VPL 25055.
1929
Piggly Wiggly
The first grocery store in North America to allow their customers to help themselves to the merchandise, the Piggly Wiggly franchise exploded across the continent in the early 1920s. However, after hitting financial trouble, the company was broken up, with the Canadian portion being sold to Safeway in 1936.
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