Welcome to the New Groceteria.com

The very first seed of Groceteria.com was planted ten years ago this weekend, when I posted on one of my other sites about old Safeway locations in San Francisco. In observation of this milestone (and because it’s just time), I’m rolling out the newest incarnation of the site today. Groceteria is now a database-driven site, using Wordpress and several other tools, and this should help me... [Read more]

Safeway Superstores Ad

Great 1984 commercial for Safeway Super Stores found on YouTube. The redesign and re-platforming of Groceteria.com continues, and I actually see it being compete within a few weeks, and definitely in time for the site’s ten-year anniversary in July.  Read More →

Safeway UK

A great photo of a 1960s Safeway in Blackfen, in southeast London, sent to me by Nic Ayling. It’s rare to find photos of UK Safeway stores from this era. He also included some interiors (of a different store, I believe) that demonstrate how Safeway was using more or less the same designs on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Read More →

Food Fair, Paterson NJ

Food Fair lives. Sort of. This photo, courtesy of Michael Williams, shows a new indepedent in Paterson NJ, that has adopted the Food Fair name. Interstingly enough, this location had been an actual unit of the Food Fair chain several decades ago as well.  Read More →

Acme Style

For your amusement: an interesting new site dedicated to Acme history.  Read More →