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I believe this Big Lots store was an old Safeway in Cathedral City (69026 E Palm Canyon Dr, Cathedral City, CA), closed when the Rim Rock store opened?

update on the old Burien (Top Hat) Safeway location, the Marina style building was torn down and a new development is underway. The old store had been neglected for many years and was in poor condition. Interestingly an old Albertsons, was a Haggen's for a time, down the road was opened back up last...

1982 Safeway commercial...gotta' love the register! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_M_xeZ6lCc&feature=related It's doubtful that any actual Safeway was using mechanical registers in 1982, but few had scanning and as late as the KKR LBO in 86, about a third of Safeway's stores were not on scann...

Techy geeks will find it interesting that this store only had Sweda Power Penny cash registers. I remember back in 1988 when Vons took over Safeway's Southern California division many stores STILL had power penny Swedas. Thanks Klkla, there is an interesting blog for those discussions on this websi...

The Safeway in Port Townsend located at 1121 Water Street operated from 1967 to 1981. The classic Marina style store was literally bursting at the seams in volume and Safeway realized early in the 1970s that the 17,000 square foot store could not continue to operate with the limited space. Trailers ...

this is one old Marina style Safeway that I know very little about, other than it opened in the 1960s and did not operate very long, the site was unprofitable. Interested in stories and background about the former Safeway. Bernie and Boys were the last tenants and have vacated the site and it is cur...

Staples vacated the property, it is currently advertised for lease, located at 350 South Palm Canyon Way, interesting tid bit this building has a basement, I can think of one other Safeway store that still use basements for storing freight and have to use an elevator to bring pallets up and down (Un...

old timers will remember that there was a Safeway in downtown Palm Springs that operated in the 1950's to the late 60's/early 70's. The building was vacant on my last visit to the desert. The only other store with this type of architecture I can think of is in downtown Spokane Washington and is now ...

I ran across this picture of me taken in the early 1990s, it is of the Oak Harbor Safeway store as we were removing turntable check stands and IBM 3663s and installing IBM 4683s. I am throwing a IBM 3663 keyboard into a cart.

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/sitefiles/scanniversary.aspx Krogerclerk, great posting, the datalogic name through me off,...

Thanks Stranger for the flickr picture from the 60's, this brings back a lot of memories, it mirrors the decor of the store I remembered shopping in when I was young and then eventually worked at in the early 1980's, on Lincoln Street #439 in Port Angeles, it was completely replaced in 1996. From th...

thanks Marshd, you are so right, the 1983 Des Moines store received its remodel first, then a short time later received the Lifestyle refresh, it was a short time between the two. Other stores off the top of my head that had the less expenseive 80's cement slab construction were Renton Fairwood stor...

The first Des Moines Safeway opened in 1958 and operated until September 1983 when a new store was built accross the street. The orginal store was expanded in the 1970's which included the classic white flagstone on the front corners with Red S's. The store is now a Bartells and a clerk there told m...

yes, both Bear Creek and the Overlake store were installed in the mid 70's, I can find out the date if that is helpful. So these two stores had more scanning generation than any other Seattle Division stores (Sperry Univac, IBM 3660, 3680, 4680, 4690).

I had the pleasure to work with all four generations of IBM Supermarket scanning technology, I miss those days very much. Seattle Division Safeway installed scanning in the Bear Creek and Redmond stores using the Sperry Univac solution. Sperry Univac decided to pull out of the Retail UPC scanner tec...