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CNN ... how about some polling in Piggly Wiggly stores in Alabama and South Carolina so we can get some really accurate statistics ...
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Saunders patented his idea and created a successful franchise called Piggly Wiggly, which eventually expanded to no less than twenty-six hundred outlets across the South and Midwest.8 Piggly Wiggly stores were relatively small, but self-service grocers soon grew in size, adding parking lots and becoming what people called supermarkets.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Saunders patented his idea and created a successful franchise called Piggly Wiggly, which eventually expanded to no less than twenty-six hundred outlets across the South and Midwest.8 Piggly Wiggly stores were relatively small, but self-service grocers soon grew in size, adding parking lots and becoming what people called supermarkets.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Operating under the unusual name Piggly Wiggly, it was unlike any other grocery store of that time.
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There really are grocery stores called Piggly Wiggly around these parts, honest.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2001
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This was my first time Deep South, so when someone told me that the grocery store was called the Piggly Wiggly, I started cracking jokes.
100 Word Stories 2010
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Clarence Saunders’ reason for choosing the intriguing name Piggly Wiggly ® remains a mystery; he was curiously reluctant to explain its origin.
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That governors pay is just too sweet to give up ... especially when your next job is going to be asst. night manager at Piggly Wiggly ... nas from PA
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The survey .... taken by Klan members in the beer section of Piggly Wiggly stores statewide is as accurate as can be expected.
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In 1989 Chance came to Jackson to assist a friend at the Jackson Piggly Wiggly Store.
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