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by KrogerTexas
22 Aug 2017 00:33
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Smith's in El Paso
Replies: 2
Views: 8560

Re: Smith's in El Paso

Not surprising that the Smith stores were sold. They were a long ways from a distribution center and were an island. When the merger happened a few problems popped up with the El Paso stores and some of their back office operations had to be moved to Houston with operational control being handled by...
by KrogerTexas
22 Aug 2017 00:01
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Kroger Family Centers
Replies: 126
Views: 87790

Re: Kroger Family Centers

Kroger has been numbering stores for a very long time. Within the company the store is prefaced with the division code or division letter(s). Houston is division 034, and the letter code is: HP. So store #995 would be known within the company as 034-995 or HP-995. There more than likely is more than...
by KrogerTexas
21 Aug 2017 23:54
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Kroger Family Centers
Replies: 126
Views: 87790

Re: Kroger Family Centers

The Family Center in Victoria had been around for a long time. It was probably built in the late 60's or early 70's. The Victoria store sale was one of the stores included along with all the stores in the Valley and Corpus to Furr's in the mid 80's.
by KrogerTexas
21 Aug 2017 23:46
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Kroger in Lafayette LA
Replies: 22
Views: 14421

Re: Kroger in Lafayette LA

The Lafayette stores were closed along with all the stores in Baton Rouge area (excluding Lake Charles, Alex and Shreveport area) stores in a contract dispute in the early 80's. The Lafayette and Baton Rouge stores were part of the Houston Division. In the 80's Houston and Dallas were separate marke...
by KrogerTexas
15 May 2016 19:31
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Plank Road Grocery Stores
Replies: 5
Views: 7632

Re: Plank Road Grocery Stores

The 6 boxes on the roofs were actually air intakes. The compressor and condensers were all located in the engine room. The circles were exhaust fans that were controlled by thermostats. Some of the stores a/c condensers were located on the roof near the engine room as the huge a/c unit was next to t...
by KrogerTexas
15 May 2016 09:03
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Was this an old Kroger, or what? (Conroe, TX)
Replies: 3
Views: 7798

Re: Was this an old Kroger, or what? (Conroe, TX)

It was not an old Kroger store. Randall's had a store in this center before moving to South and eventually closing it. The Family Center opened in 1972 and was across the freeway - now currently a Hobby Lobby. Most Greenhouse stores had one big A/C unit located in the rear of the store with a smalle...
by KrogerTexas
15 May 2016 09:00
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Albertsons in Houston
Replies: 14
Views: 17253

Re: Albertsons in Houston

Kroger Houston did not have Starbucks in their stores until they purchased the Albertson's stores.

Albertson's was in Conroe in the late 80's with a single store on South Loop 336.
by KrogerTexas
15 May 2016 08:54
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: When was this Kroger built?
Replies: 1
Views: 5704

Re: When was this Kroger built?

The store (#114) was built in the early 70's.
by KrogerTexas
26 Oct 2015 10:25
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Old Albertsons store brands
Replies: 8
Views: 13375

Re: Old Albertsons store brands

One of the reasons why (I think) Albertsons bought Safeway was to gain access to their store brands, since SuperValu had killed most of the brands and kept others (like Wild Harvest). If it was a reason to me it would be at the bottom. When Albertson's split I don't know which company (Celebrus or ...
by KrogerTexas
24 Sep 2015 21:54
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Where in Texas (?) is this former Kroger?
Replies: 1
Views: 8170

Re: Where in Texas (?) is this former Kroger?

This was #292. Opened in the early 80's and closed when Kroger left San Antonio in the 90's.
by KrogerTexas
24 Aug 2015 21:43
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: Frankenstein Kroger-SupeRx (Chillicothe, IL)
Replies: 4
Views: 4544

Re: Frankenstein Kroger-SupeRx (Chillicothe, IL)

That is one ugly remodel. Kroger build two stores in Houston in 1993 that were new construction of a corporate design that had two upstairs rooms and large windows. It looks like this remodel tried to mimic that design but did a horrible job. The actual new construction were pretty nice looking stor...
by KrogerTexas
02 Apr 2015 09:46
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Possible ex-Kroger
Replies: 15
Views: 21153

Re: Possible ex-Kroger

The location is wrong as the small Greenhouse is not in Katy, it is on 1960 and Jones Road. But the replacement time frame would be right, about 1985 for the new store on North Jones Road, which has also since been replaced.
by KrogerTexas
29 Mar 2015 20:45
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Kroger Family Centers
Replies: 126
Views: 87790

Re: Kroger Family Centers

Just to update the numbering system, it seems like some of the Marketplace stores are using numbers in the 0 to 99 range in the Southwest Division.
by KrogerTexas
29 Mar 2015 20:40
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Possible ex-Kroger
Replies: 15
Views: 21153

Re: Possible ex-Kroger

That store may have opened in 1983, that would be about the right time and style for the smaller greenhouse. It was not relocated in 1993 as there were no new stores built in Houston from about 1988 to 1992, and I worked at it's replacement store in the early 90's and it was not a brand new store at...
by KrogerTexas
30 Jan 2015 21:02
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95365

Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning

Hi Explorersea; When I started in the mid 80's the division I was in was 100% scanners, and there were no old back up mechanical registers in the store. Just before Y2K the decision was made to bring all divisions to one system (IBM) and scrap all the other systems that were in place. I would imagin...