Nine-Era Grocery Shop Timeline

Create a premium 3×3 visual timeline showing the evolution of a grocery shop across nine distinct historical eras. Each panel should depict the same basic concept — a neighborhood food and goods store — reimagined accurately for its time period, with architecture, materials, products, clothing, signage, transportation, lighting, and street details appropriate to that era. The nine eras: 1. Ancient world 2. Medieval period 3. 1500s 4. 1700s 5. Early 1900s 6. 1950s 7. Early 2000s 8. Near future 9. Distant future Composition: Arrange all nine scenes in a perfectly aligned 3×3 grid with equal-sized panels and consistent camera perspective. Each panel should feel like a miniature cinematic world viewed from the same approximate angle, allowing the viewer to compare how the shop evolves through time. Visual continuity: Keep the store in roughly the same location and preserve subtle recurring architectural cues across the timeline, so it feels like the same place transformed over centuries rather than nine unrelated scenes. Historical detail: Use believable period-specific storefront construction, packaging, containers, market displays, typography, clothing, street surfaces, lamps, carts, vehicles, tools, and everyday objects. Avoid modern items appearing in historical panels. Future panels: The near-future shop should remain realistic and plausible, with advanced displays, smart retail systems, cleaner transport, subtle robotics, and contemporary architecture. The distant-future shop should feel imaginative yet believable, with advanced materials, holographic interfaces, autonomous systems, futuristic packaging, ambient lighting, and evolved urban design. Avoid generic sci-fi clichés or excessive neon. Photography and rendering: Ultra-detailed cinematic realism, miniature-diorama precision, realistic material textures, natural shadows, strong depth, physically believable lighting, subtle atmospheric perspective, and premium architectural visualization quality. Lighting: Allow each era to have its own authentic lighting character while maintaining visual consistency across the full grid — warm natural light in older periods, practical electric lighting in modern eras, and refined ambient illumination in future scenes. Important: Each era must be immediately distinguishable without labels. No repeated objects copied between incompatible time periods, no historical inaccuracies, no random futuristic elements in older scenes, no warped architecture, no floating objects, no unreadable clutter, and no inconsistent camera angles. The final image should feel like a museum-quality visual history of one grocery shop evolving across centuries — highly detailed, cinematic, educational, and visually satisfying.