1950s woman writing a shopping list with daughter - Afro Newspaper/gado/Getty Images The 20th century brought with it a tsunami of innovations for the home cook and shopper. The first modern grocery ...

Southdale Center in Edina, Minn., America’s first enclosed mall, in the 1950s. Shopping centers may have been pedestrian-friendly in their way, but they were nevertheless islands in a sea of parking. ...

The 20th century brought with it a tsunami of innovations for the home cook and shopper. The first modern grocery store appeared in 1916, where customers could pull their own items off store shelves.