Name: ______________________________________________
Modern Marvels: Supermarkets
Date _____________
8th Grade A or B
1. What is another commonly used word for supermarket? ____________________
(although this word is used to describe ____________________ stores with
____________________ volume.)
2. How much money does a supermarket have to bring in yearly to be classified as such?
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3. Where are Safeway stores located? _________________________________________
4. Explain the process of getting food to the supermarket: (2 point question)
Who orders it? _________________________________________
How is it ordered? (Phone, post office, etc?) ___________________________________
Where is the order sent? __________________________________________________
What do they do with the order? ____________________________________________
How does it get to the store? _______________________________________________
5. How long does the bread-making process take from starting the recipe to packaging?
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6. Why do supermarkets make and sell their own brand of products?
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7. How did the supermarket get started?
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8. What was the first widely known grocery store in the 1960's?
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9. Why were supermarkets the wave of the future?
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10. What are the two purposes of the UPC?
1._____________________________________________________________________
2._____________________________________________________________________
11. When was the shopping cart invented? ________________________
12. What is one feature of the high tech shopping cart?
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13. How are Radio Frequency ID tags used? _____________________________________
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What process do they speed up? ___________________________________________
14. How are grocery stores strategically laid out? (2 point question)
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What items are placed near the back? _______________________________________
Why? _________________________________________________________________
Where are perishable items? _______________________________________________
Why?__________________________________________________________________
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15. Why are candy and magazines placed near the checkout counter?
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16. After learning about supermarkets, what do you think the benefit of a supermarket is to
our modern lives?________________________________________________________
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17. How do you think people in places without supermarkets (like NYC) get their food?
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18. How will supermarkets need to change to meet our growing food needs as our
population grows? _______________________________________________________
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