Nichole Armageddon (2007 flickr) No alterations.
Year that square-bottomed grocery bag was invented:

1867
Margaret Knight, a young woman from Springfield, Mass., invented the first machine that could make the flat-bottomed paper bag in 1867, and received a patent for the device in 1870.
Source: Creating the Twentieth Century, Vaclav Smil, 1/1/1900

 
   
  Number of supermarkets in America in 1939:

5,000

Source: Washington Post, 3/19/2003

 
   
  Number of supermarkets in America in 1935:

500

Source: Washington Post, 3/19/2003