If you have a time travelling supermarket

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If you had a time-traveling supermarket, what era would you want the supermarket to connect to?

Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, the Victorian era ?


Would items be sold by you?

Which historical figures would be likely to visit the supermarket, and what would they be shopping for?
 

NotaNuffian

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I would want it to be able to tap into farmer's markets around the world, at the peak season, and at times when prices were low but not rock bottom, just "still reasonable" - staff would be informed of the portal system and trained to warn customers from wandering into other times (and maybe we'd have one path set to send particularly unruly clients to particularly unpleasant eras).
 

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I would connect it to a stop and shop from 2003 and buy out the entire aisle of Reeses bites.
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Every day i think about how i was robbed that they dont sell these anymore.
 

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If you had a time-traveling supermarket, what era would you want the supermarket to connect to?
going back to when dollars were low value. Just buy low in past, sell high in modern, repeat
 

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Can it change region as well? I'd love to check out some of the Night Markets in Asia.
 

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If you had a time-traveling supermarket, what era would you want the supermarket to connect to?

Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, the Victorian era ?


Would items be sold by you?

Which historical figures would be likely to visit the supermarket, and what would they be shopping for?
Go to the future, get the best green energy, drop it before the Industrial Revolution. same with other sustainable things
 

John_Owl

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why not all? Could have a door that opens to whatever time period you, the door's user, wish to go to. Wanna go home? Your time. Wanna see the the wright brothers? You're there. Want to go specifically to may 4th 1445? you're suddenly back then. as long as there's a door, you can go.
 

Fox-Trot-9

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If I had that kind of supermarket, I'd got to the 1920s and buy up as many stocks as I can, then zip to just before the stock market crashes in 1929 and sell off those stocks and make a killing with a lot of dough in my pocket, then zip to the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 00s and bank the money on all the blockbuster movies that came down and get even richer that way, then put half of that money into the bank under a trust to my family's account and enjoy the riches from the interest for decades to come.
 

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If I had that kind of supermarket, I'd got to the 1920s and buy up as many stocks as I can, then zip to just before the stock market crashes in 1929 and sell off those stocks and make a killing with a lot of dough in my pocket, then zip to the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 00s and bank the money on all the blockbuster movies that came down and get even richer that way, then put half of that money into the bank under a trust to my family's account and enjoy the riches from the interest for decades to come.
You do realize that the government might get suspicious how the same person is alive for more than a hundred years as per records
 

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You do realize that the government might get suspicious how the same person is alive for more than a hundred years as per records
I know, I know, but let's pretend that that never happens!
 

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Will the timeline be linear? Like what if I sold something in the past and by the time I return to my OG era, humanity became extinct because of it? or would it be one of those parallel timeline thingies?

If so, I'd probably be go just a bit into the future and see which investment would work.
And I'd buy cheap stuff from the past and sell them in my for future peps.

I'm too dumb to do any actual infinite money-glitch on this.
 
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