Found this tooling around Time Magazine archives:
"Posted Monday, Aug. 31, 1959
SUPERMARKET GAS stations will be constructed by Food Fair chain (sixth biggest in U.S.) on parking lots of its 400 stores. Plan calls for 24 stations within a year, others later. "
1959 folks...............amazing!
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Steve Landry wrote:Found this tooling around Time Magazine archives:
"Posted Monday, Aug. 31, 1959
SUPERMARKET GAS stations will be constructed by Food Fair chain (sixth biggest in you.S.) on parking lots of its 400 stores. Plan calls for 24 stations within a year, others later. "
1959 folks...............amazing!
Hmmm, don't tell Kroger this. (They may actually believe that they invented the supermarket "Fuel Center" concept) LOL.