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- 21 Mar 2024 22:16
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Kansas City MO, 1925-1992
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8633
Re: NEW: Kansas City MO, 1925-1992
8650 W 63rd St for Kroger is tricky. Google Maps points to Overland Park and does not show any supermarket-type building at that intersection. Historic Aerials points towards the intersection of 63rd and Antioch to the west.
- 01 Mar 2024 00:08
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 87594
Re: Kroger Family Centers
The Houston division seems to have been the largest pusher of Family Centers. They had stores in the Valley region, up the Gulf Coast almost to New Orleans, and several (that are all still open) in northeast Texas. Easily 70% were controlled out of Houston alone. Technically northeastern Texas belo...
- 23 Jan 2024 00:51
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1228
Re: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
Agreed. Do wish Groceteria had a "thanks" button much like Retail Watchers does.
- 22 Jan 2024 16:36
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: archives for "Giant" grocery store
- Replies: 3
- Views: 445
Re: archives for "Giant" grocery store
None that I know of from the company, but you could try contacting them. There are still many third-party resources dedicated to the memory of Giant, such as Facebook groups and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. I also have a spreadsheet ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K...
- 16 Jan 2024 00:45
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1228
Re: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
Interesting to see a counter stick around in a large drug store chain! Then again Rite Aid has also gone experimental at times with things such as the Thrifty ice cream stands. Still strange to see they stuck around with the initial suburban drugstore wave though.
- 15 Jan 2024 17:12
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1228
What happened to drugstore lunch counters?
Whatever happened to this once-ubiquitous facet of the drugstore industry? I have tried looking online for when they were phased out and why, but instead I largely see documentation of their heyday or historical significance. Does anyone also think these can make a comeback in the present age of sta...
- 12 Dec 2023 13:23
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Colorado Soupers and City Supers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3090
Re: Colorado Soupers and City Supers
Copy cat names were not uncommon: Numerous "Big Bears" used the name of a pioneering NJ store (Ohio, Michigan, California come to mind). The same names often competed near each other Food Fair had to call itself Foodlane in DC because there already was a local Food Fair chain. In NE Ohio,...
- 10 Dec 2023 22:56
- Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
- Topic: Colorado Soupers and City Supers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3090
Re: Colorado Soupers and City Supers
Yet another Colorado-based "Supers" chain discovered - Valley Soopers, with at least one location in Rocky Ford as of 1954.
- 04 Dec 2023 18:55
- Forum: History: Outside the USA and Canada
- Topic: Safeway UK Video on YouTube
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11981
Re: Safeway UK Video on YouTube
0:34 has nearly the same wordmark as current Safeway US
- 01 Dec 2023 01:09
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Ukrops expansion to Roanoke, VA and Fredericksburg, VA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1216
Re: Ukrops expansion to Roanoke, VA and Fredericksburg, VA
Curiously if you'd look at my thread on RetailWatchers, I guess Ukrop's would be a good fit for Winchester now that Martin's is the only traditional grocer in the area. Ukrops in its heyday would have been a good upscale competitor for the Winchester area. They would offer something more than the c...
- 28 Nov 2023 19:01
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: NEW: Evansville IN, 1925-2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 825
Re: NEW: Evansville IN, 1925-2020
Is there any evidence of Kroger having operated at 2100 Boonville Hwy, 1713 E Spring St, and 220 E Indiana St? I have apparently also found a source that mentioned Kroger as opening at 2101 W Franklin St in 1950 (former Nurrenbern Furniture shop). The addresses make it a little confusing.
- 27 Nov 2023 14:17
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: The Kroger Co. Store List Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4997
Re: The Kroger Co. Store List Project
Well I have been able to piece together from various newspaper articles and from talking to my friend Lisa Tolbert, who is the author of the book “Beyond Piggly Wiggly,” groups of franchised stores were sold off to retailers such as Safeway, National Tea, and others, but Kroger obtained a controlli...
- 26 Nov 2023 23:01
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: The Kroger Co. Store List Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4997
Did Kroger own Piggly Wiggly?
Update: Kroger #309 refers to Brunswick, GA as mentioned by a Marion, OH newspaper, strangely. That being said there are a few questions I have in mind about Kroger. The first is, many sources state Kroger's first store opened in 1883. Yet, there were numerous newspaper articles and publications in ...
- 03 Oct 2023 18:24
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1256
Re: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
Interesting, though what's confounding is how some of the Big Chain cafeterias were opened adjacent to Big Chain supermarkets after the Kroger acquisition.wnetmacman wrote: ↑03 Oct 2023 16:22 Kroger never bought the cafeterias. They continued as Big Chain for a while, then were bought by Brookshire's, who ran them until 1990-1991.
- 03 Oct 2023 16:19
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1256
Re: NEW: Shreveport, 1925-2020
Were these ever spun off from Kroger?wnetmacman wrote: ↑03 Oct 2023 15:08 Here's a location list for Big Chain Cafeterias for 1961. This would be before Shreve City, so I would guess that there were at least 6 cafeterias.
Big Chain Cafeteria List 1961