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The Raley's Cafeteria mentioned on the other board (at Stockton Boulevard and Bond Road in Elk Grove CA) was the site of a Raley's Miracle Mart, which was Raley's attempt at a big box discount/superstore in the early 1960s. My guess is that the cafeteria was in the store or directly adjacent. BTW, t...

This thread is making my week and once again has me singing the superstore radio jingle:

"Tomorrow's store today. Kroger's got it."

Ah, but for a sound file and a color photo or two...

I agree it was probably built that way by GU. The arches were very common among new and remodeled Big Star stores owned by GU starting in the mid 1980s.

Seems like everything is OK now.

I'm attempting to learn if A&P immediately occupied the store after Kroger closed and why the store was short lived for Kroger. My guess is Kroger sold the store to A&P in the same transaction that several Baton Rouge, LA stores went to A&P. The timing makes me wonder if that was also r...

We seem to be edging a little off-topic here. If we could sort of keep this focused on the HISTORY aspect, and on Tops rather than on current operations of other retailers, that would be great.

Thanks,
David

Hi all. I'm not sure how many of you have made it in, but there are some problems with the site now. My domain registarar, Dotmaniac.com, has pretty much taken the Groceteria.com domain name hostage. I renewed it ten days ago, but the registrar has not marked it as such, so it now appears to have &q...

There are already several threads discussing Safeway's NYC-area operations, which lasted from the 1930s to about 1961, so yes, it might well be a former Safeway.

I meantioned this store in a previous thread asking if it were a former Safeway because of the arched roof design. After seeing this, I wonder if it were a Penn Fruit instead. http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=585 Corner of Hollis Court Blvd, Francis Lewis Blvd and Horace Harding/Long...

A lot of stores used the numbers as a part of their parcel pickup scheme. The cashier would write the cart number on the receipt and the customer would drive up and claim her groceries with it. And then (dramatic pause) they'd load the groceries into her car for her...

There are two recent posts about the chain on the front page of this site:

http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/

Nice photos, too...

Found these recently while browsing the Washington Post archives I found some nice 1950s and 1960s grand opening ads as well, if anyone is interested). There was a whole series of "pardon us while we change our name" ads when the name change occurred (about ten years after the actual merge...

storewanderer wrote:I think the FoodsCo NorCal Stores were actually branded Food4Less in the mid 1990's. Someone from San Francisco should be able to confirm this.

Confirmed.

There's a post card that often comes up for auction on eBay that shows an older (1940s) store in Banning:

I used to go to Memco a lot with my parents when I was a kid. There was one right off of Andrews AFB in Camp Springs, Maryland. I got a lot of Star Wars stuff from there. Camp Springs (or Campsprings, as it's typed in a 1970 ad) was one of the first two Memco stores in the DC area, located at 5055 ...