Which retail innovation, first introduced in 1916, revolutionized shopping by allowing customers to select their own merchandise without clerk assistance?

The way we shop today seems natural, but the self-service retail model we take for granted was once a revolutionary concept. Before this innovation, customers would give their shopping lists to clerks who would gather items from behind counters. This trivia question explores a pivotal moment in retail history that fundamentally changed how consumers interact with products and transformed the shopping experience worldwide.

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Piggly Wiggly's self-service grocery store
Sears Roebuck's mail-order catalog system
Woolworth's fixed-price merchandising model
Marshall Field's department store browsing concept