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	Piggly Wiggly LLC
		Saunders, a flamboyant and innovative man, noticed this method resulted in wasted time and man hours, so he came up with an unheard-of solution that would revolutionize the entire grocery industry: he developed a way for shoppers to serve themselves.
		Saunders' reason for choosing the intriguing name Piggly Wiggly ®; remains a mystery; he was curiously reluctant to explain its origin.
		After Saunders' disassociation with Piggly Wiggly®;, he opened a chain of stores which operated under the name "Clarence Saunders, Sole Owner of My Name Stores," and although it was successful, the Depression forced Saunders to close the chain.
	www.pigglywiggly.com /cgi-bin/customize?aboutus.html (765 words)

	Clarence Saunders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early 1920's Saunders began construction of a pink marble mansion in Memphis.
		It is alleged, Saunders took a train to New York City with one million dollars in cash in a small bag and bought Piggly Wiggly stock until he had orders for 196,000 of the 200,000 outstanding shares.
		Saunders’ bank and his friends were pressured and the price was driven back down; Saunders was forced into bankruptcy having to sell his stock at a loss.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarence_Saunders (981 words)

	Clarence Saunders - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On September 6, 1916, Saunders launched the self-service revolution in America by opening the first self-service Piggly Wiggly store, at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis, Tennessee, with its characteristic turnstile at the entrance.
		Saunders began construction of a pink marble mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
		It is alleged, Saunders took a train to New York with one million dollars in cash in a small bag and bought and bought Piggly Wiggly stock until he had orders for 196,000 of the 200,000 outstanding shares.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Clarence_Saunders (862 words)

	Clarence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		City of Clarence, the local council area on the Eastern shore of the River Derwent in Tasmania, Australia
		Clarence, New South Wales, a suburb of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia
		Electoral district of Clarence, electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Australia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarence (259 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: CLARENCE SAUNDERS
		Clarence Saunders changed the way people buy their groceries.
		While Saunders did not open the first self-service store, he is credited with selling this idea to a public still accustomed to being waited upon in stores.
		Saunders was born in 1881 to an impoverished Virginia family, who moved to Palmyra, Montgomery County, Tennessee.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=S006 (407 words)

	Clarence Telephone Company
		Clarence Telephone records indicate that the Telephone Company was organized as a privately owned firm about the turn of the century.
		President Walter Geadelmann, Vice-President Hermann Schwien, Secretary-Treasurer Wayne Saunders with E.E. Meyers, Oscar Dethamann, Henry Von Muenster and Richard Hulse as the rest of the board.
		In March 1955, after the rebuilding and installation work, the Clarence Telephone Company was the first small town in eastern Iowa to have dial service.
	www.clarencetelinc.com /clarence/clarence.html (1109 words)

	Clarence Saunders
		I'll wait over and travel with you." "Never Clarence saunders mind," the Countess answered with a quick change of tone: only describe me in the newspaper!" Henrietta, before leaving her, however, was obliged to make her understand that she could give no fictitious representation of her journey to Rome.
		She Saunders left the inn and pursued her course along the quay to the severe portico of the Uffizi, through which she presently reached the entrance of the famous gallery of paintings.
		She Clarence had a Clarence great sense of beauty in all ways, and it involved a good many intellectual obligations.
	aludra.melnorme.com /article/clarence%20saunders.html (834 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Ohio Family Struggles With Violent Deaths
		Autopsy reports said the young brother and sister were shot three times each before their father, Clarence Saunders, 58, fired one bullet into his head during a brief standoff with police at their northwestern Ohio home.
		The children's mother, Patricia Saunders, who told authorities she was stabbed by her husband before the standoff, was recovering at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, her father said.
		Clarence Saunders had worked as a contract employee in the University of Findlay's environmental and emergency management school, spokesman Suzanne English said.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/may/14/051402050.html (385 words)

	The Society of Entrepreneurs
		Like it or not, going to the grocery store is part of everyone's life, but if it weren't for Clarence Saunders the whole experience would be very different than we know it today.
		Saunders is the man who created Piggly Wiggly, the first grocery store to offer such innovations as self-service shopping, refrigerated produce cases, and national brand advertising.
		Saunders began building the house in the early 1920's, but after declaring bankruptcy the unfinished building was given to the city to use as a museum in the late 1920's.
	www.societyofentrepreneurs.com /hall_honor/saunders.asp (287 words)

	1916: Supermarkets (New Inventors magazine) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Clarence Saunders was a consummate businessman and excelled in the marketing of his unusual store.
		Clarence Saunders lost control of the Piggly Wiggly Corporation in the early 1920s, when it was ﬂoated on the New York Stock Exchange.
		Clarence Saunders never let go of his dream of creating the world’s most efﬁcient grocery store, spending the rest of his life devising a fully automated shopping system.
	www.abc.net.au /newinventors/txt/s1230986.htm (340 words)

	Clarence Saunders \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Having made a name for himself as a grocery wholesaler, Saunders decided to embark on a plan of revolutionizing the common supermarket.
		Removing unnecessary clerks, creating elaborate aisle displays and rearranging the store to force customers to view all of the merchandise, were just some of the characteristics of Saunders' Piggly Wiggly stores.
		Though this format of grocery market was drastically different from its competitors, the style became the standard for the modern supermarket, and in 1922 Piggly Wiggly had grown into 1,200 stores in 29 states.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/789 (87 words)

	The Hawk Eye Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Saunders' store became a chain, and Piggly Wiggly was the first business to offer today's mundane features such as checkout stands and refrigerated cases to keep produce fresher longer.
		Pigglys were the first to price mark every item in the store, and Saunders introduced the concept of high volume/low profit margin retailing, giving the customer more food per dollar than his clerking–driven competitors.
		In Saunders' day, the clerks were freed to do other chores such as stocking the shelves and checking out customers.
	www.thehawkeye.com /columns/Saar/2003/Saar_0803.html (563 words)

	Stand-Off Situations
		Clarence Saunders, 58, Lauren Saunders, 10, and Jacob Saunders, 5, were found dead Saturday in the home near Swanton, in northwestern Ohio, according to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office.
		Deputy Rick Brock, who went into the home after the woman told him her husband was inside with the children, was shot twice in the shoulder before leaving the home, the sheriff's office said.
		Brock and Patricia Saunders were flown by medical helicopter to a hospital in nearby Toledo, police said.
	www.policeone.com /standoff/articles/134317 (198 words)

	Treehouse Trivia
		Clarence Saunders made his living as a grocery store clerk in a small Southern town.
		Clarence Saunders had always seemed like an ordinary man. Nothing in him so far had indicated that he had any unusual abilities.
		Clarence Saunders, the $20 a week clerk, became a millionaire and grocery shopping was forever changed.
	www2.pineconeresearch.com /Newsletter/Archives/0506/trivia.htm (467 words)

	Saunders Costumes Colorado Springs Best Costume Shop
		In the fall of 1956 Evelyn Saunders, being a cub scout leader’s wife’ was helping to put on a play with the small boys.
		So that fall when Clarence Saunders went hunting she took all the money she had and went to buy fabrics to make more costumes, and she put an ad in the Colo. Springs Sun newspaper, stating costumes for rent.
		They are all down here at Saunders costumes waiting for you to make them come to life, and for your child hood fantasies to come true.
	www.coloradospringsnews.com /saunders_bio.htm (1027 words)

	TIME.com: Piggly Wiggly Man -- Feb. 25, 1929 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The story of Clarence Saunders' disconnection with Piggly Wiggly is the story of how Piggly Wiggly went to the Stock Market and wound up in the stock yard.
		Saunders discovered that Wall Street has a cemetery at one end and a river at the other.
		Saunders turned over a fortune estimated at nine million dollars to the bankers who had financed his disastrous corner, and got out of Piggly Wiggly.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,880518,00.html (572 words)

	Piggly Wiggly, Surfside Beach SC \| Surfside Beach, South Carolina
		Piggly Wiggly®, America's first true self-service grocery store, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1916 by Clarence Saunders.
		Saunders' reason for choosing the intriguing name Piggly Wiggly ® remains a mystery; he was curiously reluctant to explain its origin.
		After Saunders' disassociation with Piggly Wiggly®, he opened a chain of stores which operated under the name "Clarence Saunders, Sole Owner of My Name Stores," and although it was successful, the Depression forced Saunders to close the chain.
	www.seasiderentalsonline.com /concierge/detail.html?ID=112 (752 words)

	ABC News: 3 Dead, 2 Wounded After Standoff in Ohio
		The bodies of Clarence Saunders, 58, and his children, 10-year-old Lauren and 5-year-old Jacob, were found Saturday in the home near Swanton, about 30 miles west of Toledo, according to the Fulton County sheriff's office.
		Patricia Saunders told medical personnel her husband had stabbed her, and they summoned sheriff's deputies.
		The children were shot several times and Clarence Saunders was shot once in the head, the Lucas County coroner's office told The (Toledo) Blade.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=1959837 (335 words)

	Why You Need Web-Specific Content :: Sposto Interactive
		When the grocer came back to the counter with the eggs, the shopper would request the next item on their list and so on, and so on, until the entire order was filled.
		Clarence Saunders had an inkling that people would buy more if they were allowed to walk down the store's aisles looking at the merchandise, taking items off the shelves and collecting them in a basket as they went.
		Saunders' theory proved to be true, and his "Piggly Wiggly" changed forever the way that we shop.
	www.sposto.com /learn/5/0.html (815 words)

	FriendsBeyondTheWall.com - Prison Pen Pal - Clarence Saunders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		FriendsBeyondTheWall.com - Prison Pen Pal - Clarence Saunders
		Hello, thanks for giving me some of your time.
		I hope to find a woman who likes to write, and hopefully we can become friends.
	www.friendsbeyondthewall.com /ppbtw/ads-male/s/saunders_clarence_19091.html (71 words)

	Legends of Hockey -- NHL Player Search -- Player -- Ted Saunders
		Saunders returned to the Can-Am league and led all goal scorers again with the Philadelphia Arrows in 1934-35.
		Saunders later scored well in the AHL and AHA before switching to senior hockey.
		In 1942 he led the Quebec senior league with 31 goals in 40 games and retired in 1944 after topping the Nova Scotia loop with 17 goals in 10 contests for the Truro Bearcats.
	www.legendsofhockey.net:8080 /LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=14225 (273 words)

	Saunders, Clarence - Tennessee History for Kids
		man named Clarence Saunders, who built the chain from one to over a thousand locations in less than five years.
		Saunders later lost control of his company and started another grocery store chain called, oddly enough, Sole Owner of my Name.
		You can read more about Clarence Saunders and the Piggly Wiggly saga on the Memphis history page.
	www.tnhistoryforkids.org /people/clarence_saunders (121 words)

	Rainwater Photo Gallery: Irl Chevis Rainwater
		Saunders conceived the idea for a self-service grocery store and was able to get enough financial backing to open a store, based on this concept, in Memphis in 1919, with Irl as his store manager.
		The huge success of this first store caused Saunders to send Irl, and others, on the road to franchise the business model and eventually there were Piggly-Wiggly stores all across the country, and the stock was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
		Saunders that he named his third son, born in 1920, after him: my father, Clarence Saunders Rainwater.
	www.chronography.com /rainwater/oldgallery/mar2003.html (668 words)

	Karl Wells - The Rant
		Now I know she wanted to go to Clarence Saunders' famous grocery store in Memphis, established on September 6th, 1916 at 79 Jefferson Street.
		Saunders eventually lost control of the Piggly Wiggly Company when it went on the stock exchange.
		Unfortunately, for Clarence Saunders it was not to be, but the chain of stores with the quirky name, Piggly Wiggly, still survives.
	www.karlwells.com /nov2003.htm (1251 words)

	September 1, 2003
		She was born April 27, 1940, in Knox County to Clarence and Melissa (Moreland) Saunders.
		She is survived by two brothers, Gerald (Jan) Saunders and Clyde Saunders, and two sisters, Myrta Shellenbarger and Alice Frye, all of Mount Vernon.
		Besides her parents she was preceded in death by two brothers, Clarence Saunders and Donald Saunders; and three sisters, Esther Willey, Opal Roach and Anna Mae McKinstry.
	www.mountvernonnews.com /Obit/Sep/090103.htm (477 words)

	Renaissance Connection
		Clarence Birdseye invents a quick-freeze method of preserving food.
		By 1937 General Foods was selling 57 different types of frozen vegetables, fruits, and meats shipping them throughout the United States using refrigerated railroad cars.
		Clarence Saunders opens America's first self-serve grocery store, the Piggly Wiggly, in Memphis.
	www.renaissanceconnection.org /innovations_trade.html (363 words)

	Clarence Saunders Did You Mean clarence? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		bank and his friends were pressured and the price was driven back down; Saunders was forced into bankruptcy having to sell his stock at a loss.
		Saunders is the inventor of record of the turnstile.
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	An induction ceremony for Tennessee’s greatest business leaders
		We do expect, however, that as the years pass and new ballots are cast, history will catch up to the present day and more and more living, active Tennessee businesspeople will take their rightful places in this hall of honor.
		Clarence Saunders 1881-1953 • MEMPHIS Founder of the self-service concept in retail, it could be said that Saunders revolutionized the way we shop and live.
		Saunders’ patented self serving store concept became the industry norm and allowed him to grow “The Pig” into a 2,600-store nationwide chain that traded publicly.
	www.businesstn.com /pub/3_10/features/7970-1.html (1614 words)

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