Publix shopping cart pin
Publix shopping cart pin
If you've ever gone grocery shopping in Florida, it's likely your trip included a visit to Publix. In 1940, George Jenkins opened a Publix market in Winter Haven, Florida, the first air-conditioned grocery store in the country. He created grocery store palaces, introducing such innovations as fluorescent lighting, wide aisles, automatic doors, tiled floors, frozen-food cases, and paved parking lots. Today, Publix is the largest employee-owned business and the seventh-largest privately owned company in the nation. Pins, like the one pictured, were distributed to Publix employees in 1983. (Publix shopping cart pin, 1983. Collection of the Museum of Florida History)
