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2. Service Merchandise - Wikipedia

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   The customer would then move to the "Merchandise Pickup Area" near the exit, where the order would emerge from the stockroom on a conveyor belt. This process was altered in the late 1980s to allow customers to place their own orders on a number of self-service computer kiosks named "Silent Sam", which the company later renamed "Service Express".

3. Big Bear Stores - Wikipedia

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   Big Bear Stores was founded in November 1933 by Wayne E. Brown. The first Big Bear Store opened on February 15, 1934, on West Lane Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, in what was once a dance hall, a roller skating rink and finally a tan bark ring for horse shows. This opening marked the beginning of self-service supermarketing in the Midwest.

4. Intelligrated - Wikipedia

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   Intelligrated was founded in 2001 by Chris Cole and Jim McCarthy, [3] and has its headquarters in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. [4]In 2002, Intelligrated acquired the Versa Conveyor product line from Conveyors Ltd. [5] Later that same year, the company opened a new manufacturing facility in London, Ohio. [6]

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6. Penn Traffic - Wikipedia

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   When the first Big Bear store opened in 1933, it marked the beginning of self-service supermarket operations in the Midwest. Big Bear was the first supermarket in the country to use cashier-operated motorized conveyor belts and the first to use an IBM mainframe computer. In the 1980s, its Big Bear Plus stores combined a supermarket with a ...

7. Jeffrey Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   In the 1880s, the new company developed an early conveyor belt using its chain drive. In 1888, the Portage Strawboard Company had over 2 miles of Jeffrey Conveyor installed. [4] The company was an early adopter of electric motors, and one of the first American manufacturers to build a mining locomotive powered from an overhead wire, in 1888. [7]