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in those days lots of kitchen shelves were not a necessity: a grocery order was a phone call away, and the milkman and the Cushman’s Bakery man came to the back door.

For all our enthralled praising of ordering online, remember it's been available in some form for a long time. Massive Sears catalogs (complete houses included), daily milk deliveries, grocery deliveries, etc ... today we just have more to choose from, and can use magic glass slates to do it.




In those days, it wasn't so global. I got bike parts a few months ago from Chain Reaction; that's in Ireland. I'm on the West Coast of Canada.


Food was way more expensive back then; the additional expense of having milk or bread brought to your door was much smaller.

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