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I think Safeway takes the date they first opened *any* store in a community and uses it on all stores. That's correct. I was writing a reply to this effect earlier when we had a big power outage here. The problem is that they occasionally get confused. Safeway opened its first San Francisco stores ...

tesg wrote:I'd link the Groceteria images into this post for examples, but I wasn't sure if David would hit me or not.

Naah. I only get violent when people try to link to my pictures from OUTSIDE my site. And not really even then, because I have a script that usually keeps them from being able to :)

Dave wrote:Not Jeff Smith. That's Burt Wolf.

You're right. I have Jeff Smith on the brain because he used to be seen around my old workplace in SF all the time.

Grand Union still has a web site by its own name. I believe that they even cover its history. Look it up and enjoy. Michael If you mean the Grand Union Family Markets site, it's run by the wholesaler who bought a few remainders when the chain went under. Unfortunately, it has almost no useful infor...

Come to think of it, I believe my local Memco (east coast name for Gemco) had a branded gas station as well.

Zayre had its own branded gas stations at one point.

Open marriage, dontcha know...

This one's making me pretty sad too, and not just because I'm not a big Rite-Aid fan to begin with. Yer Humble Host has been shopping at Eckerd since the days when it still allowed people to call it Eckerd's. Most of my prescriptions as a kid came from there, I've eaten at their soda fountains, I bo...

For those of you who don't check the front page of the site regularly, I've added some 1967 photos of the very beautiful Cala Foods at California and Hyde in San Francisco. They were taken from the movie "Petulia", which was released on DVD a month or two back: http://www.groceteria.com/jo...

Found as I was digitizing old VHS tapes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGCb6lmQq_4

Wow! The phramacy's at the front!

The last of tonight's series of commercials discovered as I was digitizing my old VHS tapes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0jVrCTd_yc

This one's a classic. Really.

Friom my ongoing "digitize the VHS" project, this one is from the "Marriage" series following the merger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtRoWlu2lYs

From an ongoing project where I'm digitizing all my old VHS tapes:

A produce spot from 1997:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td6vEKdmBw0

And a holiday spot from 1998:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDeUXG9Ga8

From an ongoing project where I'm digitizing all my old VHS tapes, this one features Jeff Smith, the "Frugal Gourmet":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ztkNreu5Ps

nortongulch wrote:I don't know the policies here, but here is a link to an old photo

The policy is that when you post a picture that's that good, you have to identify it as a "really cool picture".

OK, I'm kidding. Welcome aboard.