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by krogerclerk
09 Dec 2009 12:29
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Table of operational Kroger stores in West Virginia
Replies: 29
Views: 18129

Re: Table of operational Kroger stores in West Virginia

I could find no evidence of Kroger having a presence in Morganton or Clarksburg prior to the 1950's, but Fairmont being skipped would be an odd gap. It seems that the Morganton store is a survivor of the Pittsburgh division, while Clarksburg was the frontier of the old Charleston division that was m...
by krogerclerk
01 Dec 2009 14:04
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Ketner and Milner Stores in North Carolina
Replies: 4
Views: 6252

Re: Ketner and Milner Stores in North Carolina

Thanks for clarifying that, I had thought Dixie Home had a greater presence in the Charlotte hinterlands than it apparently did have. Unfortunately,the Dixie Home part of Winn-Dixie is irrelevant in its present geographic footprint, surviving only as part of the company's name. As for Kroger being a...
by krogerclerk
30 Nov 2009 13:27
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Ketner and Milner Stores in North Carolina
Replies: 4
Views: 6252

Re: Ketner and Milner Stores in North Carolina

It appears the importance of Ketner-Milner was overstated due to founding members leaving Winn-Dixie to start Food Town which evolved into Food Lion. Ketner-Milner and Ballentine Stores had such overlap with Dixie-Home Stores, that the acquisitions also drew the attention of the FTC, which put a 10 ...
by krogerclerk
30 Nov 2009 13:20
Forum: History: USA California
Topic: 1990's Ralphs Time Capsule: Huntington Beach, CA
Replies: 11
Views: 6453

Re: 1990's Ralphs Time Capsule: Huntington Beach, CA

At least Kroger, to my knowledge, spared Ralphs(and QFC and Fred Meyer) of its "millennium" package that seemed to have been generously applied to to the company's other banners. In the case of the Smith's pictured, the millennium decor would have been a welcome change. How many Ralphs hav...
by krogerclerk
30 Nov 2009 13:05
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Chain Drugstores with Operating Lunch Counters
Replies: 6
Views: 12145

Re: Chain Drugstores with Operating Lunch Counters

Eckerd eliminated the lunch counters around here by the late 70's, replacing them with Eckerd Optical which lasted until the mid or late 80's. When Eckerd acquired Marietta, GA based Dunaway Drugs in the late 80's, they inherited several stores that still had lunch counters, including the 1979 build...
by krogerclerk
28 Nov 2009 17:49
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Early Walgreens stores in Michigan
Replies: 6
Views: 10537

Re: Early Walgreens stores in Michigan

I wouldn't be surprised if Michigan was an area that Walgreens retrenched from during the late 60's and early 70's. Much of the Deep South experienced a retrenchment by Walgreens during this era, leaving Walgreens in Florida and the Gulf Coast westward to Texas and up the Mississippi Valley to the U...
by krogerclerk
11 Nov 2009 03:17
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Dixie Home Early History
Replies: 14
Views: 24576

Re: Dixie Home Early History

Ballentine and Eden Stores are mentioned as being acquired by Winn-Dixie, but little about their locations and history has been recorded. They obviously had the same basic geography as Dixie Home Stores, so I can understand why the FTC put a moratorium on Winn-Dixie acquiring chains in 1966, though ...
by krogerclerk
29 Oct 2009 22:36
Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
Topic: Kessel Food Market
Replies: 5
Views: 7385

Re: Kessel Food Market

Kroger created a distribution partnership called Foodland Distributors by spinning off the Detroit area warehouse to a limited partnership with several Detroit area supermarkets, including Kessel's. Super Kmarts in the the area were supplied by the warehouse from the 90's until the partnership was d...
by krogerclerk
25 Oct 2009 00:33
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Two chains, same name, same state
Replies: 7
Views: 4531

Re: Two chains, same name, same state

Publix operated Food World in Central Florida from the early 70's until the early 80's while Alabama based Bruno's operated Food World in Northwest Florida from the 80's until the present. There may have been a short time in the 80s that both chains were simultaneously operating in Florida. Addition...
by krogerclerk
19 Oct 2009 11:03
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Grand Union
Replies: 76
Views: 79001

Re: Grand Union

Was Grand Union ever in the Philadelphia region? This thread is why I'm asking this:http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2757 One of Grand Union's predecessor companies began in Scranton, PA which would indicate that the chain had at least been in Northeast Pennsylvania if not in...
by krogerclerk
14 Oct 2009 21:08
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Kroger in former Houston Safeway stores?
Replies: 1
Views: 4267

Re: Kroger in former Houston Safeway stores?

The Safeway Houston division was closed around 1988, and spun into AppleTree Markets. Kroger did buy 11 former AppleTree Markets after it bankrupted in 1993, many of which began as Safeway. Safeway didn't acquire Randall's until 1999 which had acquired 15 former AppleTree Markets in 1993, taking the...
by krogerclerk
14 Oct 2009 21:01
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: A&P in Houston
Replies: 5
Views: 9461

Re: A&P in Houston

A&P had a Dallas division which had some stores in the Houston area, but A&P was a marginal operator in Eastern Texas outside the DFW metro. I believe the Dallas division began to close piecemeal in the early 70's and was gone by 1980. Safeway was a relative newcomer to Houston, arriving in ...
by krogerclerk
23 Sep 2009 17:00
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95409

Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning

Kroger used IBM 3663, NCR 2552, and NSC/ICL 2100 during the 80's. The National Semiconductors were with or without the POStalker feature. It seems to be hardest to find info the National Semiconductors models as the NSC sold the register business to ICL which is now a unit of Fujitsu. Grand Union wa...
by krogerclerk
21 Sep 2009 22:09
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95409

Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning

Here's an article showing the Magellan Model A scanner, very bulky, with a black and white photo of the NCR register from June 26, 1974 at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, OH.

http://www.scanning.datalogic.com/sitef ... rsary.aspx
by krogerclerk
07 Sep 2009 22:46
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Phoenix - Remembering Smitty's
Replies: 30
Views: 50975

Re: Phoenix - Remembering Smitty's

The Smitty's in SW Missouri was not part of the Phoenix Smitty's, but had licensed the name for a similar store and used a similar font to the Phoenix Smitty's. The Missouri Smitty's was acquired by Albertson's who used the name in the market, and many were sold to Ramey's upon Albertson's meltdown ...