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The Imagination That Made All the Difference
Inventor of the shopping cart came up with an idea while watching his customers push their carts. A store clerk in a small southern retail store was inspired to open America's first self-serve grocery store. In 1887, Frank winfield borrowed wool worth 350 dollars from a general store owner and turned it into five cents on the dollar table. Ten years later there were more than one thousand staple stores with revenues exceeding seven billion dollars.