Groceteria.com is a site about the history of American and Canadian urban chain grocers from the 1920s through the present, with an emphasis on buildings and locations.
- Places: The geography of chain grocery retailers in the U.S. and Canada since the 1920s.
- More history: Brief histories and related material about a very few selected chains.
- Methodology: What I study and how this all works.
- About the site: More about the history of supermarkets, your humble host, etc.
- Message board: Discuss.
- Bluesky: Updates and random thoughts.
What’s new?
Onward to Richmond
Richmond turned out to be much more interesting (and to take much longer) than I expected. Most of the big chains turned up there at some point, including Safeway, A&P. Kroger, and Food Fair, and there was also a pretty robust collection of local chains.
This is one of my more heavily researched sections and I’m quite proud of it. It includes new pages on Richmond and Hopewell plus an existing one on Petersburg. There’s also a timeline and a photo page. Close to 700 locations altogether. Give it a look if you have a chance!
New stuff…
…and a lot of it is from Utah.
Since April:
- Massive expansion of Salt Lake City and suburbs
- New: Ogden UT, 1920-1987
- Update to Tri-Cities TN/VA
- Update to Columbia SC
- Update/expansion to San Joaquin County CA
Happy Wednesday!
Five options…
…for a monstrously large roadtrip this fall. Thoughts? Anyone?
Option 1 (5766 mi, 9225 km): Covers two of the remaining three US states (Montana and Idaho) I’ve never visited and gets me to Seattle and Portland (whch I have missed very much) for the first time since 2002.
Option 2 (5119 mi, 8190 km): Covers two of the remaining three US states I’ve never visited and allows longer stops, but skips Seattle and Portland (though it adds a proper stay in Denver for the first time since 1992).
Option 3 (5476 mi, 8725 km): Covers two of the remaining three US states I’ve never visited and also three Canadian provinces I’ve never visited, getting me to Winnipeg (which I’m obsessed with but will probably hate), Edmonton, Calgary, and Saskatoon.
Option 4 (5819 mi, 9310 km): Doesn’t really cover much new ground other than Dallas, but gives me more of my former home state California (it’s been eleven years since I visited) and maybe Denver.
Option 5 (5053 mi, 8283 km): Also doesn’t really cover much new ground other than Dallas, but gives me longer stays in SoCal, which is always a big plus, and skips my former home city of San Francisco, which may be just fine.
What’s semi-new?
I haven’t really left the house much this weekend, not wanting to multiply the evil effect pollen has had on me this year. That said,… The Key Food cooperative, which purchased the Superfresh and Food Emporium tradenames during A&P’s bankruptcy announced today that it will also be resurrecting the A&P… I’m seeing significant message board outages over the past few days, probably stemming from bot intrusions. I can’t tell you when or if the situation…
All updates…