What’s it all about?
Established in 1999, Groceteria.com is a site about the history of American and Canadian urban chain supermarkets, from the 1920s through the present, with an emphasis on spatial history (buildings and locations). Explore the site…
What’s new?
December (and coming soon)
Back from my annual road trip to Southwestern and Southern Ontario and other places along the way. This trip included one of my periodic runs to the amazing Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne for some major data acquisition. You can see what will be coming soon as a result of this on the “works in progress” page.
New additions since October:
Updates since October:
October update
Just a quick list of recent additions (which you’ll see quicker on Bluesky or in the Message Board:
- Fort Worth Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1925-1991
- Slidell LA Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1964-2003
- Lots of additions to Seattle and King County and to Tacoma and Pierce County
- Provo-Orem UT Chain Grocery Supermarket Locations, 1924-2025
- New Bedford MA Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1925-2025
New additions
New stuff over the past couple of months:
- Lawrence MA chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1920-2025
- Terre Haute IN chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1920-2025
- Attleboro MA chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1924-1988
- Lowell MA chain grocery/supermarket locations 1925-2015 (update)
- Columbia MO chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1940-2025
Again, follow along on Bluesky if you want these updates as they happen.
I’m also still plugging away on reformatting all the location list pages. It’s slow and tedious and I can only maker myself do so many in sone sitting, but I’ll get there.
What’s semi-new?
Yeah, I know that Bob’s Burgers is not really supposed to be set in San Francisco, but this sure looks a lot like the Whole… As you can see, I’ve done some significant remodeling of ye olde Groceteria over the past few days. Since people are inherently resistant to change,… Sorry. It’s been a bit. Things have been very hectic at the day job (you know, the one where I actually get paid). So…news: I…
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