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 buildings and locations.
Places
The geography of chain grocery retailers in the U.S. and Canada since the 1920s. My primary area of research.
Selected chains
Capsule histories and related material about some North American supermarket chains.
Message board
A place to discuss the history of supermarkets and other retailers.
About the site
More about the history of supermarkets, your humble host, and my methodology.
The Latest
Looking through some old files tonight. This is what the site looked like twenty years ago this week, in case that’s a thing you needed to see today. Groceteria.com in November 2002
