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Rest in peace, Mr. Vlasic. You made some damn fine pickles in your day and Michigan is a better place because of you.

Betamax vs. VHS: Why Betamax Could Not Compete As consumers saw that VHS tapes could record entire movies and baseball and football games, the choice became clearer—Betamax couldn’t meet their needs. If you’re old enough to remember or have seen the vintage advertisements, then Betamax was a videotape format created by Sony that enabled people to record their favorite programs and rent pre-recorded ones. It was launched shortly before VHS, but eventually, the two were engaged in a years-long format war that began in the late 1970s and stretched into the 1980s. As video players became m...

Music is playing. everything's perfect in the mall. >> in the 1980s, you have 16,000 malls popping up like mushrooms, and they become the high temples of the great american religion, shopping. >> pam and melissa, 15 years old, come to the mall almost every day. they call themselves mall rats. >> i love it. it's only $24. >> consumerism definitely took over in the '80s. people emerged from the '70s from tough economic times and went, wow, we can now spend. >> i want you to think about this also. >> that's what is going to set your eyes off. >> the economy started growing, and it was largely a c...

Was that, whose idea was this? >> i think kids can have their own opinions. my little brother has been very politically active and has been a consumer of the news since he was probably 12. so we can't say that kids are always just informed by adults but it is a valid question to say whose idea was it on school time? this is also something if you're going to make a political move here, is this something that is being led by the school administration? is it compelled or something -- all these questions are very important. when we talk about something like climate change. this is something if you...

>> consumerism definitely took over in the '80s. people emerged from the '70s from tough economic times and went, wow, we can now spend. >> i want you to think about this also. >> that's what is going to set your eyes off. >> the economy started growing, and it was largely a consumer-driven growth. but the consumer economy was funded by debt. >> the national bankruptcy rate is soaring. greg and diana, annual income, $32,000. they had over $12,000 in unsecured des when they bought a home, bought a washer, dryer, and beta max tv recorder, then went bankrupt. >> i knew i didn't have the money. if...