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Grocery Buff
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Anyone able to identify what chain these two stores may have been when originally constructed?

-New Braunfels, TX-
Arlan's Market
559 W San Antonio St, New Braunfels, TX 78130
https://goo.gl/maps/NvjgMnU6ghpoafEDA

Street view: https://goo.gl/maps/ep9Y2hRkJSpbb7hPA


-San Antonio, TX-
La Fiesta
6103 Pecan Valley Dr, San Antonio, TX 78223
https://goo.gl/maps/wjb96ebu2nJHUQ63A

Street view:
https://goo.gl/maps/bxE63zbbVQaqcyAd8

Thanks!
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The second one is a Safeway for sure.
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Grocery Buff wrote: 18 Jan 2022 14:32 Anyone able to identify what chain these two stores may have been when originally constructed?

-New Braunfels, TX-
Arlan's Market
559 W San Antonio St, New Braunfels, TX 78130
https://goo.gl/maps/NvjgMnU6ghpoafEDA

Street view: https://goo.gl/maps/ep9Y2hRkJSpbb7hPA


-San Antonio, TX-
La Fiesta
6103 Pecan Valley Dr, San Antonio, TX 78223
https://goo.gl/maps/wjb96ebu2nJHUQ63A

Street view:
https://goo.gl/maps/bxE63zbbVQaqcyAd8

Thanks!
The first store, at least in 1980, was Wuest's Market.

The second store was Handy Andy, per Newspapers.com.
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Wow.....................it sure looks like a Safeway.

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Thank you!

I found out from a person that lives in that area that it went Wuest’s, then Handy Andy, then Arlans (when Arlan’s bought the remaining Handy Andy stores).

A local San Antonio newspaper did a good article spotlighting Kroger’s history in the city. https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/a ... 021276.php
It sounds like they were having success until a union negotiation caused issues. The newspaper did the article because Kroger is moving back into the region but with delivery only, no stores.

I discovered one of the Kroger locations in now a La Fiesta and still has the originally cube Kroger sign in the parking lot (at least in Google Maps street view). https://goo.gl/maps/VqSFTKDzv7st7xdL7
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