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Vintage 6ft Silver Aluminum Christmas tree and rotating stand & color wheel Wow | Silver ...

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OFFICIAL OPENING FOR BUSINESS IN 1995

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On July 16, 1995, Amazon officially opened for business as
an online bookseller. Within a month, the fledgling retailer
had shipped books to all 50 U.S. states and to 45 countries.

Founder Jeff Bezos’s motto was “get big fast,” and Seattle-
based Amazon eventually morphed into an e-commerce
colossus, selling everything from groceries to furniture to
live ladybugs, and helping to revolutionize the way people
shop.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, will step down as CEO | LaptrinhX / News
Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the founder, executive chairman,
and former president and CEO of
Amazon.

Amazon to Invest $700 Million in Training, Upskilling its Workforce - The College Post

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THE INVENTION OF THE SHOPPING CART

Oklahoma City inventor of shopping cart a symbol of local innovation | News OK
Sylvan Nathan Goldman (11-15-1898 – 11-25-1984)

The first shopping cart was introduced on June 4, 1937, the
invention of
Sylvan Goldman, (above) owner of the Humpty
Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma.

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Who Invented the Shopping Cart?

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THE GREAHAM AREA’S FIRST SUPERMARKET


223rd and S.E. Stark in Gresham.  (1954)

    


1963

       

Carl and Ada Zimmerman leased a one-room country store
(above) from Edward and Minnie Aylsworth in 1938 and purchased it in 1943, remodeling and expanding it into the
area’s first supermarket.
 

The store closed in 2001 and the building was demolished
in 2005 when Weston Buick Pontiac GMC and Kia built a
new showroom and dealership in its place (below).

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VINTAGE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING ~

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