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Maslow\u2019s motivational pyramid is but a house of cards if we don\u2019t eat. And ever since we started shoving sustenance into our gullets, our species has devised means to do it faster\u2014lest we beleaguer our journey to transcendence.<\/p>\n

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In 2011, a team of archaeologists working near Kenya\u2019s Lake Turkana\u00a0unearthed<\/a>\u00a0several stone tools in sediment that was 3.3 million years old; they were the oldest ever found. From this starting point chiseled from stone, the parabolic arc of meal-gathering technology\u2014arrowheads, taming wheat, spears, domesticating goats, irrigation, barcode scanners\u2014has traced a path squarely through the turnstiles of Amazon Go.<\/p>\n

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Amazon on Monday<\/a>\u00a0opened its first cashier-less convenience store in Seattle with the typical fanfare that accompanies just about everything Amazon does. After a 14-month internal trial, anyone with an Amazon Go account can now scan their smartphone at the door and go to town. Customers pick up any items they want and just walk out, all the while an array of sensors and cameras completes the transaction and tracks inventory. In keeping with trendy tech ritual, famished technomaniacs formed their customary, pre-dawn line outside, eagerly awaiting their chance to partake in hyper-efficient, faceless transactions. The irony wasn\u2019t lost on some:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the future of grocery shopping,\u201d Yuval Fleming, among those standing in line, told the\u00a0USA Today<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0KING 5\u00a0<\/em><\/a>on Monday. Here, Amazon\u2019s mantra for the future of grocery is \u201cJust Walk Out.\u201d It\u2019s a catchy, three-word ode to convenience that has an uncanny echo in the halls of history.<\/p>\n

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Eighty years ago, Clarence Saunders, the founder of Piggly Wiggly grocery stores, also saw the future of grocery shopping. In 1937, he opened the first automated grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n

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His three-word ode to convenience: \u201cKey Does All\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The Future, 80 Years Ago<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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When it came to 20th<\/sup>-century grocery innovators, Piggly Wiggly was at the tip of the spear. Saunders founded the company in 1916 at a time when customers still handed their grocery lists to clerks awaiting their business from behind a counter. Clerks gathered all the items; customers didn\u2019t roam the store. You didn\u2019t touch your groceries until you had paid. Saunders flipped the script, as they say.<\/p>\n

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He designed his stores with aisles of goods, allowing customers to journey through the store and pick up\u00a0 foodstuffs at their leisure. The approach saved on overhead costs, and allowed Saunders to cut prices\u2014ever the goal of grocers. He patented this \u201cself-serving store\u201d concept in 1917.<\/p>\n

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Seriously, selecting your own food at the grocery store was a massive paradigm shift.<\/p>\n

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Piggly Wiggly\u2019s business thrived into the early 1930s with their innovative model, but it all came crashing down when Saunders attempted to ward off a pack of short-selling wolves of Wall Street who were looking to\u00a0squeeze Piggly Wiggly\u2019s stock<\/a>. Saunders is best known for his audacious attempt to buy all his company\u2019s stock shares, corner the market and leave the short-sellers hanging out to dry. He despised Wall Street types. It would be sweet revenge.<\/p>\n

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He came so close, but failed when Wall Street changed rules of the game. Saunders owed millions, and was eventually forced to break Piggly Wiggly apart.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0money.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maslow\u2019s motivational pyramid is but a house of cards if we don\u2019t eat. 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