Listener Favorite: Before Steve Jobs There Was Piggly Wiggly’s Clarence Saunders

After we finished our pilot on the history of the supermarket we realized that Clarence Saunders, the man who created Piggly Wiggly, deserved more attention. Every time we shop Saunders innovations are at play. But more than that, he was a self-made man who crashed and burned not once, not twice but three times. Brash and charismatic, he died in the 1950s while trying to develop a computer automated supermarket he wanted to call FoodElectric. We think that you too will be wondering why hasn’t anyone made a movie about this guy yet. .

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