Which retail innovation, first introduced in 1916, revolutionized shopping by allowing customers to select their own items rather than having clerks retrieve products from behind counters?

The way we shop today seems natural, but the retail experience has undergone dramatic transformations through inventive pioneers who changed consumer behavior forever. Before certain innovations, shopping involved counter service where store clerks gathered items for customers. This poll explores a pivotal invention that revolutionized retail by empowering customers to select their own merchandise—an innovation that fundamentally changed retail design and shopping habits worldwide.

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• The shopping cart (invented by Sylvan Goldman in 1937)
• The self-service grocery store (pioneered by Clarence Saunders with Piggly Wiggly)
• The barcode scanner (invented by Norman Joseph Woodland in 1952)
• The cash register with receipt (invented by James Ritty in 1879)

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