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BBC Schools television programme shown on BBC2 on 8 February 1988 and repeated on 11 February 1988.

Features general archive footage of early self-service shopping in the 1950s. Sainsbury's archive posters giving directions on how to use a self-service store. Footage of Sainsbury's Chiswick: scanning checkouts; training via tape recordings; closing the store and shelf stacking at night; deliveries and cleaning before opening; stocktaking. Also Sainsbury's depot [Basingstoke]: cold stores; country of origin; fresh produce; banana warm room. Closing general archive stills of pre-supermarket shopping.

Duration: 15 minutes. This video has not been digitized so the contents of it have not been confirmed.

The programme is mentioned in Special Bulletin Management Team 39/88 (6 Feb 1988).