The Rise and Fall of The Piggly Wiggly Founder and the Mansion Built on Groceries and War
Clarence Saunders had only two years of formal schooling, yet he invented a retail concept that would outlast him by a century. He opened the first Piggly Wiggly store in Memphis in 1916, fundamentally changing how the world bought groceries by introducing self-service shopping—a model that endures in every supermarket operating today. Before Saunders, grocery … Read more