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.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the founder, executive chairman,
and former president and CEO of Amazon.

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.

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).

Rewards catalog,1965

S&H Green Stamps were trading stamps popular in the from the
1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a
rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company
(S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron
Hutchinson.

Customers would receive stamps at the checkout counter of many
supermarkets, department stores, and gasoline stations among
other retailers, which could be redeemed for numerous products
in the catalog (above).

A Green Stamp Redemption Center.