Puester wrote:
>
> My parents owned a grocery store from ~1947-1965 and they delivered
> every day w/o any complaints.
> (Well, my dad DID complain when not-so-regular customers would call
> during a blizzard and ask for
> delivery of just a pack of cigarettes or chewing gum, but that's
> another story.) Many people were elderly
> but many also didn't own cars for quite a while after WWII especially
> if they lived in the city or on a
> bus route. Public transit was cheap and convenient in our city.
>
> I enjoyed taking orders over the phone from people I knew. Very few
> were that fussy because they
> knew what they were getting from us and it was good quality.


My mother saved some old receipts from a grocery store delivered, and
this was before I was born. It was a surprise to see the cost of foods
like eggs, coffee and sugar.


Becca