n It's 50 years since the first full size self-service super

Shoppers were just getting used to the new concept of self-service in 1951 when Express Dairies opened arguably the first such full-offer supermarket in Streatham Hill. The Grocer reported: "Fifteen hundred South London housewives performed their...

 

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