The numbered aisles with shelves upon shelves of packaged foods. The janky metal shopping carts. The ritual of placing your every purchase on the cashier’s conveyor belt to be rung up and bagged.

Grocery stores are evolving. While sprawling suburban markets with aisles upon aisles of options and larger parking fields still dominate, a new typology is becoming more popular in grocers’ expansion ...

In Design Rewind, AD looks back at the people, places, and things that defined 2025, from the dark woods we saw everywhere to the best place to build a home (hint: It’s not on a lot). Here’s what we ...

You walk into your grocery store for milk and somehow end up staring at a wall of granola you’ve never seen before. The bread ...

Grocery shopping has changed dramatically over the last century. Supermarkets first started emerging in the 1920s, forever altering how people shop for food. Photos show the shift from small stores to ...

What started as a budget experiment turned into a revelation about how store design and cultural food traditions quietly ...