My grandfather owned and operated an early contemporary grocery store, growing from his fruit stand. Before self-service shopping and the checkout line, you wou

My grandfather owned and operated an early contemporary grocery store, growing from his fruit stand. Before self-service shopping and the checkout line, you would just give the grocer a list of what you would need and they would get it from the inventory. This also made theft impractical. Now, with the skyrocketing cost of retail rent, and other costs affiliated with retail store operations, we see a return full-service shopping with apps and food service operating out of ghost kitchens, we're finding out we don't need grocery stores.