History
Lansing Peter Shield, President of Grand Union Co., applied for patents for the original gravity-feed rear load design using Unistrut and Nylon strips in 1945 (later approved in 1948). The unit consisted of several inclined runways. The device was driven by gravity. A stockman would place merchandise in the rear of each runway and, as a shopper selected an item, the item behind it would slide forward in place of the previous one
Grand Union formed a company called Food-O-Mat to sell the carton flow system, and made Gardner Hinckley the President. Gauer Metal Products, Inc manufactured the carton flow units for Grand Union/Food-O-Mat When Lansing Shield died of a heart attack, Thomas Butler was appointed the new president. Butler had no interest in continuing to use carton flow units in Grand Union Supermarkets so Food-O-Mat went off on its own to sell the product with Gauer Metal Products, Inc as its manufacturer.
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