Waxing nostalgic, is food procurement permitted here? [View all]

I just don't remember how food was packaged. I recall a meat counter at a small strip mall store, with wooden floors and one glass front display, dimly lit. They sold a few fish, and some other proteins. It must have been packaged in waxed paper. This about 1965. I don't think it was an A&P, which was down the sidewalk a few stores, but it could have been. The A&P was standardized footprint to a great extent, wood floors, 2-3 checkouts, high tin ceilings, fresh ground coffee. Purple price stamps on each item. The checkout slides were wooden, you just pushed the food along. When did we graduate to styrofoam trays? I don't recall how chicken and beef were packaged in the 1970s. I think fresh fish was often wrapped in white wax paper in the 80s, 90s, then on to plastic. There wasn't as much frozen food back then. Vegetable in white cardboard cartons, wrapped in a label and glued; a few of those operations still persist today, and there are a few manufacturers with cardboard packaging in frozen foods - butternut squash, the Michelina's line for example. Too much plastic, not enough food.