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Big Lots frequently leases or rents old buildings. They are what landlords refer to as a second generation retailer. Hobby Lobby and Burlington Coat Factory do this as well. Because of the nature of their business, it wouldn't be feasible to pay the full price rent for a new store. Previously used l...

The Market Basket stores in SE Texas and SW Louisiana are totally independant. The only coincidence to the California operation is the logo. This company was started in 1961 by a couple of independant operators, who started with just a couple of stores. A large majority of their stores were acquisit...

I'd like to say that the Super Store format was ended when all stores began falling in to the mold. I remember that the store in Longview, TX downtown was made a Super Store in its last remodel. The remodel coincided with the closure of the Skaggs Drugstore next door, and ASC opened a Skaggs Superce...

I still do not know why Safeway had 2 stores that close together. I'd be willing to bet they did not operate at the same time. Safeway was notorious for replacing stores in some cases with brand new ones almost right next door. If you look through some of the pictures on this site, you'll find that...

BTW, the Safeway website lists over 30 Tom Thumb stores in Dallas. I am thinking about taking a trip to see if any are the older stores and do a little shopping. I wouldn't count on it. Tom Thumb and Randalls had really updated their Dallas portfolio before being bought out by Safeway. I believe th...

AWG does not own the Harvest Foods/Little Rock stores. They are owned by Afffiliated Foods Southwest, http://www.affiliatedfoods.com , who is based in Little Rock. They purchased a small portion of the stores out of Harvest Foods' bankruptcy, as well as the name. AWG does own Homeland, but OK is clo...

What year was the "full" JCPenney name integrated? If I understand correctly, the company has always been known as J. C. Penney & Co. The stylized P logo was an attempt to simplify, but it did not change the company name. Similarly, the company is currently known as JCPenney, but I be...

I went and looked at two things: Winn Dixie's website and Windows Live Local. There is a store at 777 Market St. in downtown Jacksonville. It has been there a while. When you look at the Bird's eye view, you see that they were in the process of remodeling to this design during the picture process of...

And don't forget the Twin Pines/Lone Pines Mall in Back to the Future.

I'd be willing to bet that this Kmart has a store number in the 9xxx format. The 9xxx stores were 40-60k square feet, and mostly built in small towns with populations of 25,000 and under. They were built in three formats: butler (metal) buildings, masonry construction, or mall anchor. The latter two...

Henderson, Texas still has one of these restaurants, with the lower sloped roof. Essentially, it looked like a reversed Western Sizzlin. It opened in 1979. There are several 80's versions of these as well, including Abbeville, LA that are still open. Coincidentally, I had my first New England Clam C...

The left entrance arrangement was pretty common among pre-superstore Krogers and another indication that this was a pre-superstore that got some cosmetic superstore touches. I would be inclined to agree with this. There was a superstore-looking Kroger in Longview, TX with the left entrance. If you ...

I think this design was also used in the mainline A&P stores. I seem to remember that when A&P was in Natchitoches, LA when I was in college, their store used the same decor package. I also think that the former Centennial A&P in New Iberia, LA had the same package, though I could be wro...

I saw a store similar to this in St. Louis in 1989 or so that had been purchased by National. If my memory serves me correctly, it had the greenhouse/bauhaus interior, with National signage. At the time, I had no idea who National was or what their significance was in the area. I just remembered see...

I was in New Orleans on Tuesday. I couldn't help it; I had to go see what the A&P looked like. Here's what Rouses did. With the exception of the checkouts, the interior is exactly the same.