Kroger Family Centers

[BatteryMill]

I found this newspaper ad listed several locations of old retail stores (of where to buy trainsets, what the page was originally advertising)

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382222633/

I looked at the (which according to this website) the former TG&Y store located at 1600 W Jackson St, Macomb, IL 61455

Looking at the front of the building on Google Maps / Google Street View, I noticed that the building kind of looked like on old Kroger FC

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4590107 ... 384!8i8192

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

This seems to have flown off my radar, good catch. I don't have anything to confirm it so far, but there are several convincing factors. The facade, location in a periphery Kroger market, and the fact it was a TG&Y afterwards (which at least one other Family Center was).

[wnetmacman]

I found this newspaper ad listed several locations of old retail stores (of where to buy trainsets, what the page was originally advertising)

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/382222633/

I looked at the (which according to this website) the former TG&Y store located at 1600 W Jackson St, Macomb, IL 61455

Looking at the front of the building on Google Maps / Google Street View, I noticed that the building kind of looked like on old Kroger FC

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4590107 ... 384!8i8192

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

This seems to have flown off my radar, good catch. I don't have anything to confirm it so far, but there are several convincing factors. The facade, location in a periphery Kroger market, and the fact it was a TG&Y afterwards (which at least one other Family Center was).

There's no need for proof. That is about 50-100 miles from Mattoon, another short term FC. It's definitely one, but badly remodeled.

[BatteryMill]

There's no need for proof. That is about 50-100 miles from Mattoon, another short term FC. It's definitely one, but badly remodeled.

Looks like per the Galesburg Register-Mail on November 1, 1972, Kroger was indeed operating a Family Center in Macomb. As the FC rollout was taking place Kroger would often mention that they also chose new markets or those they vacated in the 1950s supermarket rise, such as Mattoon.

[retail_person_247]

I think I might've just stumbled upon another former Family Center location (which was later converted into a Kroger supermarket)

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7184406 ... 312!8i6656

Is this another former Kroger FC?

(I don't know how I keep finding these)

[BatteryMill]

I think I might've just stumbled upon another former Family Center location (which was later converted into a Kroger supermarket)

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7184406 ... 312!8i6656

Is this another former Kroger FC?

(I don't know how I keep finding these)

Doubt this one is a Family Center, more a superstore. It opened in the 1976-1979 range (according to the Groceteria spreadsheet and other data) and was bannered as a "Sav-on" for some time. It is also worth noting that Superstores have similar wall patterns, but different column styles.

[Groceteria]

Doubt this one is a Family Center, more a superstore. It opened in the 1976-1979 range (according to the Groceteria spreadsheet and other data) and was bannered as a "Sav-on" for some time. It is also worth noting that Superstores have similar wall patterns, but different column styles.

Especially after looking at it from above, I would peg this one as a superstore that subsequently expanded into the space to its left (maybe a SupeRX?). The large building to the far left looks like a discount store that has since been subdivided, which probably would have precluded the possibility of a Family Center as well.

[Groceteria]

On I keep forgetting to add (where you can get a slight taste of the original façade) is this one in Chapel Hill NC:

https://goo.gl/maps/AxdszumgXUQznNKZ8

Opened as a Family Center in 1969, converted to a superstore in 1972-73, and closed in 1989.

[wnetmacman]

I think I might've just stumbled upon another former Family Center location (which was later converted into a Kroger supermarket)

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7184406 ... 312!8i6656

Is this another former Kroger FC?

(I don't know how I keep finding these)

I would agree with everyone else here, but for deeper reasons:

This store was built next to a Walmart D1 store. The true Kroger Family Centers were *almost* never in a shopping center, and were usually standalone to promote the One Stop Shopping concept. That, and the layout of the store is Supercenter with adjacent drug store.

[wnetmacman]

On I keep forgetting to add (where you can get a slight taste of the original façade) is this one in Chapel Hill NC:

https://goo.gl/maps/AxdszumgXUQznNKZ8

Opened as a Family Center in 1969, converted to a superstore in 1972-73, and closed in 1989.

Interesting; I've never seen a Family Center converted into another major competitor like Whole Foods. Well, at least not in a while. Morgan City, LA was converted to a National Tea-owned Canal Villere, but I do not believe they used the whole store. New Iberia may have been as well, but I think it had already been subdivided with the adjoining bowling alley.

[Groceteria]

Interesting; I've never seen a Family Center converted into another major competitor like Whole Foods.

When Kroger closed in 1989, this one was taken over by Wellspring Grocery, a local natural foods chain that was subsequently acquired by Whole Foods.