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I say all of that to say this - in my experience, Albertsons only bought stores that fit the mold. Schwegmann did not fit anyone's mold - they marched to their own beat. I would say that was true up until the merger with American Stores; that's when they inherited a bunch of stores that were in the ...

There looks like there's a store missing from the list, 5151 Lapalco Boulevard in Marrero. According to "SCHWEGMANN GETS BIDS FOR 7 STORES - LAST 11 OUTLETS MAY BE AUCTIONED May 14, 1999 | Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA)". One article I read somewhere (Supermarket News I think, don't have it ...

I had heard the Canoga Park Sears had a wine and liquor department by Vendome inside of it in the 1960s. I'm sure it wasn't the only California outlet to operate with it. From what I've seen there were the obvious departments that all Sears had--hardware, garden and patio shop, automotive, heavy ...

According to some tax documents I found, the Dickinson TX Wal-Mart (#570) opened with a Corn Dog 7, though only for the first year of operation.

There looks like there's a store missing from the list, 5151 Lapalco Boulevard in Marrero. According to "SCHWEGMANN GETS BIDS FOR 7 STORES - LAST 11 OUTLETS MAY BE AUCTIONED May 14, 1999 | Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA)". One article I read somewhere (Supermarket News I think, don't have it ...

Chicago-front (what we called them--low-cost no dining room takeout locations) stores left in the corporate-owned KFC fleet (which was big cities at the time). At that point, some cities were entirely franchised, though (Seattle/Portland/St. Louis/Indianapolis/Cleveland/Milwaukee/Boston ...

I know this is a subject that doesn't seem to be brought up much, but I am wondering what the history is behind fast food restaurant PlayPlaces?? At McDonald's, Burger King, Carl's Jr, and Chick fil A. I know some areas of the country and certain restaurants phased out of these playgrounds years ...

This (661 Scotland Rd, Orange NJ) was an operational A&P store at least as late as 1973. I think that just about says it all... Yikes! Albertsons and Kroger kick around a few desolate stores in the 10,000 square feet range, but less than 2,000 square feet for a full grocery store? That would've put ...

If A&P hadn't acquired Pathmark, it probably would've just been a more attractive takeover candidate. I think where A&P screwed up was in the point when they were acquiring other chains. Rather than build off the strengths and formats of its acquired chains, A&P immediately started to change things ...

So did they just have a large part of the store that had been walled off and abandoned after Montgomery Ward closed? ...or did they pull out long before? The 1997 bankruptcy killed the specialty store business (Lechmere, stand-alone Electric Avenue, etc.). The store was subdivided. I'm not sure if ...

With regards to Cala (Bell/QFI) - would the shortlived Delano's IGA that took over in 2007 count as a successor chain? (That chain then imploded in 2010 and I know at least two locations in SF have since become Grocery Outlet, specifically Geary and South Van Ness) Looks like yes, but they closed ...

Montgomery Ward had a full sized Toys "R" Us in their Gaithersburg MD location https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1986/07/22/wards-toys-r-us-set-venture/c81f5478-5c29-4ce7-ad70-bc690de2ba2f/ Sears' K-B Toys experiment sounds more similar to Macy's current Toys R Us partnership; that ...

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This article seems to indicate Chatham was converted by Great Scott, which means that those Chatham stores could still have converted to Kroger safely. Did Great Scott close down the Chatham stores when buying them?

Looks like it opened in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Jewel Tea (the actual tea shops and delivery business) had SoCal stores early on and delivery through at least the 1970s, per some LA Times references, but no locations of the supermarket chain AFAIK. And Sav-on Drugs was rebranded as Osco for a time. I wonder if either of those things might have ...