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Fazio's was part of Fisher Foods of Cleveland. The Fazio brothers had had a small family-owned chain. They organized a group of investors and other super market people who took over Fisher (a publicly-traded company that had been run by descendants of the founding Fishers and their inl-laws, the Con...

Pre-scanner, there were shortcuts such as unique numerical codes which would get punched in instead of dollars and cents. I can recall Pick-n-Pay in Cleveland having this in the late 70s. National Tea piloted something like this in the early 70s. The early scanners had their problems, but price chec...

Some chains will collect plastic bags for recycling. Publix used to do this. Giant of Landover, as well. I use them for small/medium trash receptacles and other things, so they always get resused at least once, and I don't have to buy other plastic. Kroger will offer a choice if a major competitor d...

Jewel began offering plastic in Chicago in 1986. They started with the stores in the city (where a lot of people walk and might have found plastic better for carrying stuff). They were pretty universal by the end of the 80s. Some people prefer paper for ecological reasons; others find plastic more d...

Actually, ACF-Wrigley eventually became Allied Supermarkets probably in the early 60s; presumably they spun off the non-food business.

The ACF part of the business was industrial; don't know what happened to it. The Foodtown chain in Cleveland was sold to Cook Coffee (later Cook United) which operated Pick-n-Pay super markets in Cleveland (most Foodtowns became Pick-n-Pays; a few were sold to A&P or to independents). The sale t...

There already was a "GEM" chain in various Eastern markets, which operated as a membership discount store.

Michigan was Elias Bros. Ohio was Frisch's, except for the Northeast quadrant (Manners, then Bob's). There were stores a bit like this one in Frisch's territory and to a lesser extent Manners--rather small indoor dining, otherwise, pick-up or carhop service. They didn't have the sloping roofs--flat ...

Sogo had a large international operation, with stores all over Asia. Sogo, itself, was an upscale brand. They went bankrupt several years ago and closed most, if not, all of their non-Japanese stores.

The Painesville mall had a generic name like Market Place or Market Square. I'm reasonably sure "Market" was in it. There doesn't seem to be much on the web concerning Carlisle-Allen (I looked a couple years ago), which was the main anchor. At one time, Carlisle had a sizable number of sto...

Tempo was a discount department chain that was part of Gamble-Skogmo, which also owned Buckeye Mart (in Ohio, of course) and the Red Owl super market chain in the northern Great lakes & upper Midwest. I forget what Skogmo was, but I think Gambles was a Western Auto-like hardware chain. I think t...

The Painesville mall dated from the mid 70s. It's anchor was a Carlisle-Allen department store that had been there for 15-20 years; it was a fairly modern store that had grown to 100K sf through a succession of expansions. Carlsile's was based in Ashtubula, the next county seat over and an old facto...

Dolly is still around on things like cinnamon cakes. i just saw them in the little conevinece store in my office building.

Standard & Lowell's were chains that National acquired and had strong enough local identities that they kept the names. They did this with a few other chains like Miller's (the pioneer super market in Denver) and Del Farm (an inner city Chicago chain whose name they also used to rebanner stores ...

There was a long running Kroger on Buckeye Road in Cleveland that was in an ice house they converted in the 50s. Askating rink was turned into a strip mall anchored by an even longer running Pick-n-Pay supermarket in Cleveland, also in the 50s, near Cleveland Clinic on Euclid Ave. Despite riots and ...