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This store was damaged by a fire set by a shoplifter in April of 2011 resulting in significant smoke damage so the store had to be repaired before reopening which might explain newer fixtures. Note the date of the original post...I knew about the fire but that visit was before then. In some ways it...

A couple notes if you would like to add them: 1219 Broadway: still open as Albertsons, plans for new replacement store were recently announced and this location will eventually be demolished. 1515 W. State Street: Currently Rite Aid (Is 1514 correct?) 1100 Vista Avenue: Currently Rite Aid 5018 Frank...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi73ptWt3Qc I recently stumbled across this Youtube video from the late 70s which shows Elvis Costello and his band stopping at an A&P store. I thought this was good quality considering the time period and offered a view of what a typical 1970s store was like. A c...

I read that the Salt Lake City division of Safeway included the stores in southern Idaho, and that was bought by Borman's, which converted them to Farmer Jack for about a year. I wonder if the Caldwell and Nampa stores served as that brand, too. I want to say that Mountain Home went from Safeway to...

This actually extends beyond California....the old Albertsons at Vista & Overland in Boise (a former Safeway) had talking registers but had the Datachecker setup that I assumed was carryover from its days as Safeway. This was the first store I ever remember having the talking registers. One thin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzzpI95oNhg If you skip to about 3:10 you can see the sign out for the former Safeway in Newberg at 1510 East 1st Street. The video was filmed late 1970s (1979). Again, does anyone remember exactly when Safeway moved to 1140 North Springbrook Plaza (where Thriftway u...

Interesting notation that those locations offered deep fried pies due to lack of space for an oven. http://burgerbeast.com/2009/07/16/mcdonalds-express-kendall-florida-closed/ What else does McDonalds make in its oven besides the pies and cookies? I remember they used the ovens before for the pizza...

So did the Food Barn stores actually operate under that banner, or were they still under the Safeway banner? The Hazel Dell store is still open today as a regular Safeway and seems to be doing just fine. They did operate under the Food Barn banner. I think one of the divisions that was closed in th...

In the 1980's Safeway tried doing a discount 'no frills' format called Food Barn and a liquor store called Liquor Barn (that was somewhat similar to today's BevMo). Both stores generally used smaller Safeway properties that were no longer profitable operation as a Safeway. A lot of the Liquor Barn ...

I found Thrifty Ice Cream at a Rite Aid in Hillsboro, OR (prepackaged only) last year. I was really surprised to see it, I did not think it was distributed in OR and didn't see it at the other couple Rite Aids I went into. 2021 NW 185th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Rite Aid expanded the distribution ...

With the possibility of Walgreens and Rite Aid merging in the not too distant future, I wonder what could happen to the Thrifty Ice Cream brand. Walgreens does have their own line of dairy products but it's all prepackaged stuff. Rite Aid seemed more open to retaining elements of the stores that the...

I tend to think of Safeway's two formats aimed at large stores over 35,000 square feet as being the last of the most-interesting Safeways of all time. They are the Super Store (1977-1988) and the Marketplace (1988-1994) and both had very interesting interiors as well as exteriors. The Marketplace f...

Does anyone know anything about the history of Safeway in the Oregon towns of Newberg and McMinnville that are west of Portland, both of which lie within Highway 99W? First off... McMinnville. The first Safeway store to open in this city was on September 16, 1958 at 442 Northeast Baker Street. That...

Does anyone know anything about the history of Safeway in the Oregon towns of Newberg and McMinnville that are west of Portland, both of which lie within Highway 99W? First off... McMinnville. The first Safeway store to open in this city was on September 16, 1958 at 442 Northeast Baker Street. That...

I appreciate what you are doing to keep the site alive. So many similar sites have migrated over to Facebook-only types, and the originals get left abandoned. Not everybody uses Facebook, and a lot of people are getting burned out by it, which is why it's important to maintain things when the social...