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This video was made possible by CuriosityStream. Sign up for the CuriosityStream/Nebula bundle deal to watch the extended cut of this video with everything we cut for time at CuriosityStream.com/Wendover. Supermarkets are a marvel obscured by banality. Nearly everyone in the developed world uses them regularly, so we have no basis of comparison—we just don’t know a world without supermarkets. We don’t know how it was a century ago, when grocery stores took the form of small storefronts, found every few blocks throughout towns and cities. You’d hand the clerk a list indicating you wanted, among other things, apples. They’d then gather you apples—assuming they were in season and in stock. Nowadays, however, you are confronted by an aisle rivaling the size of those historic grocery stores, displaying a tantalizing, sprawling selection of Honeycrips, Fujis, Granny Smiths, Galas, Braeburns, and more—all the varieties, always in stock, all year long. They sit next to pineapples