Maybe it's just me, but shopping sure has changed

[squatting dog]

 

[Pepper]

Look how much thinner the people in 1958 are.

 

[squatting dog]

Look how much thinner the people in 1958 are.

Think they dressed a bit nicer also.

 

[Pepper]

I bet the modern kid in the cart is only about 8-10 years old.

 

[charry]

We were thinner in the 60s etc
but we ate pies , chips , potatoes , fried breakfasts
thick butter on our bread
suet pudding and we were so slim

i don’t eat any of that now …
I think it was because we were so active in those days

 

[charry]

Think they dressed a bit nicer also.

Yes they did , men all in suits and ladies in their suits and stockings

 

[Pepper]

More active back then with less additives in our junk food.

 

[hollydolly]

More active back then with less additives in our junk food.

less ready prepared food too.. people had to work to make every meal.. and there were no snacks in our house...

 

[Pepper]

The kid in the cart looks so sad & angry. I really feel sorry for her.

 

[hollydolly]

The kid in the cart looks so sad & angry. I really feel sorry for her.

she doesn't look angry to me she looks peed off at having her photo taken ..

 

[Pepper]

I get very sad when I see a young child being Very overweight.

 

[charry]

she doesn't look angry to me she looks peed off at having her photo taken ..

She’s angry as shes too fat to get out of the trolley

 

[hollydolly]

I get very sad when I see a young child being Very overweight.

don't we all.. but the mother is very overweight too.. so it could possibly be that her mother too was overweight...or that the mother never was taught how to cook, and therefore lives on processed high fat foods..

 

[charry]

I get very sad when I see a young child being Very overweight.

Yes pepper …there’s no need for it ….
they say show me a fat child and we re show you a fat mother

 

[hollydolly]

Yes pepper …there’s no need for it ….
they say show me a fat child and we re show you a fat mother

..as you can see, the mother pushing the trolley is also overweight..

 

[MarkinPhx]

All good points but I am surprised that the mother in the picture from the 50's doesn't have a cigarette in her hand and of course none of them wore seat belts on the way or home from the supermarket.

 

[Knight]

She’s angry as shes too fat to get out of the trolley

Makes a person wonder how she got into the cart

 

[Jace]

O M G, but you do see alot of 'em...out there!

 

[charry]

Makes a person wonder how she got into the cart

Aww bless her , so sad in seeing these children obese knight

 

[Jules]

The mother isn’t excessively overweight, as the young girl seems destined to be.

JMO, the girl seems sad.

I‘ve seen the occasional kid about that age have a mood and the mother pushed them around for a while. Doesn’t seem long before the kid is evicted from the cart.

 

[Llynn]

The ladies in the 50s picture look like Pat Nixon and her two daughters.

 

[hollydolly]

..the other thing is that way back in the day.. the shopping trolleys were a lot smaller too.. nowadays some of them are so HUGE. ( Costco)>. I can barely keep them under control...

 

[Gardenlover]

Now you don't even have to get off the couch.

 

[MarkinPhx]

I do not know the location of where the 1958 picture was shot but one other difference between that picture and the other one is back then that families ethnicity may have been the only one that was allowed to shop at that grocery store

 

[hollydolly]

I do not know the location of where the 1958 picture was shot but one other difference between that picture and the other one is back then that families ethnicity may have been the only one that was allowed to shop at that grocery store

Not in the UK it wouldn't have been... there was no segregation of whites and non whites ( of which granted, comparatively there wasn't very many )... so every shop or store would have had white people and non whites doing their shopping regardless..