Lawsuit By Piggly Wiggly
Clarence Saunders filed a lawsuit against Jitney Jungle over the use of "self-service" store setup. Saunders had a patent granted in 1917 for "Self-serving store" and was suing anyone using those processes. In court, William Bonner McCarty showed that the self servicing process was preexisting by pointing to a similar store in California by the name of "Alpha-Beta". McCarty won the lawsuit leading to widespread adoption of the self-servicing method.
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