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A Whole Lifetime of Great Supermarket Movie Scenes

No doubt about it: The supermarket is the ultimate all-American movie set. In this supercut, made especially for Slate by Jesse Paddock, we can see just how much mileage the grocery store gets on film. From Home Alone and Where the Heart Is to Army of Darkness and The Wrestler, “Life in the Grocery Store” proves that there’s not a single film genre that doesn’t love shots of canned goods.