On 11/24/2012 1:01 PM, micky wrote:
OT As Black Friday creeps forward to Wednesday, I'm trying to renew
my recolletction of what days and hours supermarkets were open in the
early 50's.

I lived in Western Pa. near Youngstown, Ohio, in a city of 50,000
people, and my earliest recollection is that it was open from 9AM to
5PM, M-F, not on Sunday, and I can't remember about Saturday.

What about Saturday?

Later, maybe by 1956, the store started staying open to 6.
There was only one supermarket on the north side. .

The big change in shopping hours came in the 1960's as malls
proliferated. Stores that were open until 9 p.m. on weekdays, what a
concept. Since the early malls often had supermarkets, the supermarkets
also stayed open until 9 p.m.. The mall near me stayed open until 5 p.m.
on Saturday. I think that it was not open on Sunday when it first opened.

Publix refused to open on Sunday for decades. The founder was very
Christian and thought that people should be in church. On the door of
the store there was a sign "Closed Sunday, See You in Church."