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From the Groceteria article on the history of Alpha Beta: Albert and Hugh Gerrard had been operating food stores in Southern California since 1900 and had been early adopters of a self-service system in 1914. Their Triangle Grocerteria (at 329 West Second Street, Pasadena) began arranging groceries...

Are you sure you don't mean CORNET? I've never heard of Coronet. You are probably right...only one (1) O. Guess I was thinking of the TP with the same name! SURFINGDUDE...wasn't there a CORNET in the Morro Bay/Los Osos/Baywood Park area?! I remember going to Morro Bay and shopping @ Cornet. Thought...

TheStranger wrote:

Dean wrote:
Si, that is the one! There is also a former Marina store off the 10 in Fontana/Colton area. It is a furniture store.

Is that the one in the community of Bloomington? That's at Valley and Linden...

Yes, that is the site. The center is currently pretty run down.

Payless did not demolish the 1950's era Safeway/Vons at this location, but remodeled the building to move the facade from Marsh St to Johnson Avenue. This was done in response to the neighborhood outcry over the loss of the only remaining supermarket in the downtown area. Scolari's of California th...

I was part of the crew that opened store 7529 in Rancho Cucamonga on Haven Ave. The store opened with a Cafeteria tucked into the back wall between receiving and the offices. We also had the deli in front of the registers on the front wall between the main entrance and the cosmetics dept. The cafet...

I go to the Central Coast quite frequently and it seems like Spencer's are opening more stores. I've been to the in Arroyo Grande it was formerly a Lucky then an Albertons. What I know is that Spencer's is a local grocer who is starting to branch out on the central coast. Any one know the history o...

The Sears in Alhambra had the candy counter upstairs near the escalators. This store was the first to discontinue the counter in the area. This store would eventually close in the late 90's to become a Toys R Us and Party City. I dont know what they have upstairs, but Toys R Us uses the basement le...

The site in Riverside CA is still standing. Off the 91. Near Kaiser Permanente & Castle Park.

The Center was Cattleman's (now a chinese buffet) Jack La Lane (then a church, now a laundromat coming soon) Builders Emporium (now Circuit City) Zody's (Old Circuit City / 99 Cent Only Store, and Max Foods) Albertsons (then Workplace, then Office Depot) Sav-on Drugs (then Osco, then Sav-on now CVS...

I live near the Montebello store. It was subdivided in 1987 when Circuit City opened on the north end, and Max Foods the other 2/3rds of the store. Circuit City closed in the mid-late 90's when they moved to a bigger store next door in the former Builders Emporium. The old Circuit City was empty fo...

The cul-de-sac used on KNOTS LANDING is actually a street near the Knollwood County Golf Course in the Granada Hills section of Los Angeles. Not near the beach, as the TV shots depicted! There is a market near the area (probably Balboa & Rinaldi) that was used periodically. Think it was ALPHA BE...

I've talked about this in business classes, and you're right. It's all about creating brand loyalty (as are the loyalty cards), as well as a segmentation of the market to the cost-conscious consumer. In business classes as well...we discussed that studies have shown that the higher socioeconomic cl...

The SAFEWAY in San Luis Obispo CA on Marsh became VONS. VONS then left. PayLess drugstore essentially demolished the building and built a new store. When they did this...they changed the front of the store to face Johnson. I believe the site is now RiteAid. When VONS converted the site in 1989...the...

Akrons had a several locations. Think of it as a Pier 1 type store. I cant remember them too much, but had a few locations around. Yes, I believe they were similar to Pier 1...yet had more "junk" versus the Pier 1 home decor stuff. Don't think I ever went into one, yet their commercial as...

The City of Industry CA KMart had a grocery store next door--left side (facing the store). I don't remember the name...but the logo was a genie or something. From the front facade of the building...you can't tell there was another store. Over the years with remodels...they tied it together well. Yet...