I've lived in NW OKC pretty much all my life. Possibly out of boredom-- but I was just thinking how different the grocery shopping environment is now than in the 60's and 70's.

I chose the area bound by MacArthur on the west, Pennsylvania on the east, Britton Road on the north and NW 30 on the south.

These were the shopping options available then:

NW Expressway & MacArthur: Skaggs--vacant
Just a block north on Macarthur: Whittakers--then various IGA stores--now a pawn shop

NW 63 and MacArthur: Safeway-then Homeland-then Drapers Market (independent)--demolished
Whittakers---then various IGA stores--antique mall
Wal Mart Market (current)

NW 50 & MacArthur: Red Bud--Mini Max--Kennards (independent)--now Goodwill
Sanders Foods--independent--now a paint store

NW 42 & MacArthur: Gibsons--now Victory Church

NW 39 & MacArthur (area) : Safeway--divided space--in the center with Family Dollar and City Bites
Whittakers--now Auto Zone

NW 36 & MacArthur: Buy For Less (current)

NW Expressway & 63rd: Ken's Red and White--then Bestyet---was Pratts for a short period of time after the 39th Street store fire--now Academy

NW 63 and Portland: Kimberlings IGA then Consumers IGA--demolished

NW 50 & Meridian: Safeway--then Homeland--now Bingo

Portland & NW EXP: Megamarket--then Bakers--now Buy For Less

NW 50 & Portland: Fredrick's Foods (very short lived independent)--now a shoe or paint store I think

NW 39 & Portland: Hagees Discount Foods--then Winn Dixie/Foodway---then Pratts--now Locke Supply

NW 30 & May: Humpty Dumpty--then Bestyet--then Eleys (current)

NW 50 & May : Humpty Dumpty--then Puddin Lane IGA (now Michaels)
Stone's IGA--then a couple of other IGA's--then Mayfair Market (demolished for CVS)
Thrif-T-Wise--local OK chain--where Eckerd and old CVS was--(used to have a neon owl sign that flashed off and on at night--creeped me out when I was a
kid)

NW 51 or NW 52 & May: Arlans Supermarket--then Humpty Dumpty--then Target Supermarket--now all Target

NW 59 & May: Shopper's World--then Founders Fare--then Trade Mart--demolished

NW 63 & May: Safeway--then Homeland---now Sprouts (current)
Puddin Lane IGA--then Consumers IGA--now divided space
Winn Dixie---now where the fitness center is next to Big Lots

NW 72 & May: Humpty Dumpty--now Freddie's

Britton & May: Safeway--back corner north of Lubys (divided space--Tuesday Morning?)
Puddin Lane IGA--where paint store is now
Skaggs--now divided space
Albertsons--now Homeland


Britton & Penn: Humpty Dumpty--then Safeway--then Homeland--demolished for Wal Mart Market
Humpty Dumpty--on west side of Casady Square--(divided space)--Humpty built new store across Penn

Penn Square Mall Humpty Dumpty (nice store--way ahead of it's time)

This is a total of 34 stores that were open in that time frame--only 7 are current grocery store locations. I'm sure this is a similar ratio to other parts of OKC and other US cities.
Grocery shopping then was a neighborhood thing....definitely now more of a destination.
Plus you got trading stamps!