It was never a Grand Union. GU bought the Weingarten stores in 1980 (Weingarten itself still operates today as a real estate company) and converted them to GU stores in all but name, including a variation on the "red dot" logo. In 1984, however, they sold off all of the stores. Most of them were sold to Safeway, which, if I understand correctly, continued to operate them as Weingarten for a few months (though one Weingarten did remain independent and open until 1986, when it was sold to Rice Food Markets).Ephrata1966 wrote: For anyone interested in Grand Union history, there's a Fiesta supermarket in southwestern Houston that first was a Weingarten's, then Grand Union, then Safeway, then AppleTree, then Kroger, and finally Fiesta.
Likewise when the Houston division was spun off, it briefly operated as Safeway (seeing as Safeway was still doing a lot of back-end work, including their items) before renaming as AppleTree. So the supermarket you're referring to operated under 5 names, not six.