We are still on Memory Lane in Fairburn, Ga., in the early 1950s at Hudson’s Red Dot Supermarket.

There was not a lot of choice in item variety. For instance, we sold only three kinds of milk: sweet milk (just your regular whole milk), skim milk (often called blue john) and buttermilk. We would have been laughed out of town if we had tried to sell something called oat milk or almond milk. Everybody knows that oats and almonds can't produce milk!

Nobody ever asked for broccoli, hummus or yogurt … I don’t think they had been invented yet. We did sell 20-pound tins of Koweta lard and 25-pound sacks of flour.

If you wanted potato chips, then you had the choice of take-it-or-leave-it. No barbecue flavor or sour cream flavor, etc. Frito-Lay introduced Ruffles potato chips, and this started a

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