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==Drive-through stores== ===Grocery shopping=== Harold Willis and his father, Robert Willis, first incorporated a dairy and eggs drive-through service in Redlands, California, in the early 1940s, supplying milk and eggs quickly and efficiently to driving customers; this utilized a dairy conveyor belt that Harold Willis had invented.<ref>{{cite web|title = Obituary for Harold Wendt Willis - REDLANDS, CA|url = http://www.emmersonbartlett.com/sitemaker/sites/EMMERS1/obit.cgi?user=70242715_HWillis|website = www.emmersonbartlett.com|access-date = 2016-01-26}}</ref> Some supermarkets offer drive-through facilities for [[grocery shopping]]. In the UK, this service was first announced by [[Tesco]] in August 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tesco trials UK's first drive-through supermarket|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/aug/22/tesco-drive-through-supermarket|access-date=29 October 2012|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=22 August 2010}}</ref> In the United States, Crafty's Drive-Buy Grocery Store in Virginia started offering the service. In 2012, the Dutch chain [[Albert Heijn]] introduced a "Pick Up Point" where one can collect groceries bought online.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDXOdnfybU | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316022748/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDXOdnfybU| archive-date=2013-03-16 |title=Albert Heijn Pick Up Point |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-10-31 |access-date=2016-06-02}}</ref> Dairy products were available at a drive-through dairy store (notably the [[Skinner Dairy]] shops of North-East Florida or [[Dairy Barn]] in [[Long Island]]).{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} === Liquor stores === [[File:Rich's Drive-Thru, Port Clinton, OH.jpg|thumb|right|A drive-through beer store in [[Port Clinton, Ohio]]]] Alcoholic beverages have been sold at a drive-through [[liquor]] store (called a "Beer Through", a "Cruise Through", a "Brew Thru" in the U.S. eastern Mid-Atlantic coast,<ref>{{cite web|title=Soda or Pop? Maps Show Americans' Colorful Dialect Differences - DiscoverMagazine.com|url=http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/2013/june/regional-us-language-dialect|website=discovermagazine.com}}</ref> or a "[[wikt:pony keg|Pony Keg]]" or "Party Barn" in certain areas; generally illegal in the Northeast and West)
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