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There is one in Redding.

Smiths for years had three stores from 1987 to 1995 or so: Reno, Sparks, and Carson City. Then in 1995 they opened a store in Gardnerville. Around 1996 they had plans to open a new store in South Reno and another store in Sparks, but sold the Sparks store site to Albertsons (stupid, stupid, stupid m...

There are still some Circle K/76 sites left in CA, OR, and WA. A few of those are franchise operations. Others were Circle K sites retained by ConocoPhilips (not sold to Couche-Tard) and operate as corporate owned ConocoPhilips stations with the c-store being branded Circle K instead of Breakplace (...

The Safeway in Hawthorne, NV has a pharmacy but no other specialty departments. The pharmacy was there from at least the mid 1980's on, in the front corner opposite produce, where you'd normally expect to find the deli. The store is a 70's looking flat roofed thing. It was remodeled sometime in the ...

Speaking of those freezer cases with a whole line of products running above them, Grocery Outlet has those in a store they opened here maybe last summer, or the summer before.

It doesn't look fully red to me on the new red signs.

However, looking at a new red gas pump, it is clear that the color is indeed red.

Maybe we WANT it to look orange, so it does.

I remember the large letter decor Smiths had before. The walls were quite colorful as I recall, too. When they remodeled the now closed Reno one, quite a few of the wall letters were missing, especially around the deli. The other thing they did in the remodel was remove half of the checkstands. They...

The wall colors are sort of similar to the Elk Grove Ralphs and the new Smiths, but that's about it. The layout and design/decor elements are completely different. Ralphs has a very light, airy, clean feel to their store. Smiths has a nice store, but it doesn't have any of those feelings. Part of th...

Okay, I'm pretty sure this is the Carson City, NV location. If not, it is the closed Reno location... I've posted these before so some of you may have seen them before. http://static.flickr.com/45/141199721_9592c6fd1f_b.jpg http://static.flickr.com/54/141199720_9bcab5a1e7_b.jpg Nice handwritten prom...

Here are a few pictures of a Smiths that opened in Reno, NV that was built in 2004. There is no other fixture that looks anything like the one over the butcher block. The store has a real floor (reminds me of the Lucky floors, but with a darker peach color spaced between the whites, this is a great ...

Not sure about Ralphs in SoCal. I think they have a mixed bag of interiors there from the late 90's Ralphs, to the mid 2000 and on Ralphs, to Fresh Fare, to old Hughes interiors. Hopefully they've gotten rid of all the old Alpha Beta and Boys interiors. Smiths has a mixed bag of interiors and doesn'...

I suspect these stores will be supplied by C&S. No way will they continue to stock Kroger house brands. This is like a new beginning for Cala/Bell. The stores will likely be better off under the new ownership. The chain has declined severely during the Ralphs ownership. Does anyone know how that...

I thought about this all night. All I can see is one pattern with the conventional stores Kroger is keeping in NorCal. I see no logic to why they'd keep them for this reason. Each store they are keeping is representative of their interior packages. San Carlos has the 90's looking Cala/Bell interior....

It seems Kroger has finally sold some of Cala/Bell. They sold 12 store to DeLano Retail Partners.

They did not sell the stores in San Carlos or San Francisco Post Street.

I don't know about Post Street, but San Carlos looks like a strong performer to me.

Well, I just checked the divest list. It looks like Great Falls is the only Big Fresh that Smith's retained. I assumed that Smiths did not build any new stores in Montana. It looks like the location in Bozeman is a new store, replacing a prior Big Fresh. Different address for present store than what...