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Oak Tree Lanes near Diamond Bar and Temple was most likely a former supermarket because of its supermarket style exterior architecture. What occupied the bowling alley before? While this particular one may have been a supermarket in the past, my experience is that purpose-built older bowling alleys...

dth1971 wrote:What about the Lucky owned Gemco and Memco stores?

They've been discussed extensively in other threads:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtop ... ight=gemco

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtop ... ight=gemco

I seem to remember that Piece Goods Shop was based in Winston-Salem. It was, and was initially owned by these two crazy brothers who also owned a TV station here. I wasn't aware of the Hancock relationship, although we do have Hancock stores (and no more Piece Goods) now. Perhaps Hancock bought out...

Moved to Non-grocery Retail, since, well, all of them but Jim Dandy are...

Speaking of Cost Cutter, that was the generic brand used at Kroger's Market Basket stores in Socal. I have a bottle of Kroger Cost Cutter wine which I think may still be with some stuff I have stored at my parents' house. If I can get over there tomorrow, I'll post a picture. I always thought the i...

I think anything Scotch brand is owned and trademarked by 3M. I never saw a Ralphs generic line but the closest might be Mountain Dairy, which is all Kroger-bannered stores. The closest Albertsons has is their Good Day products. Stores that are supplied by Certified/Unified use Special Value. Super...

klkla wrote:Scotchbuy comes to mind but I'm not 100% sure.

Scotch Buy is correct:

I went antique shopping the other day and I bought a few Ann Page Spice tins marketed by The great A&P tea company. I don't Know if A&P still sells this brand or not. A&P eliminated all their well-known house brand names several years ago in favor of the rather uninspiring America's Cho...

There is now a thread for defunct music chains here:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1036

Those are cool, but I was actually more interested in ones in use at stores that are no longer Kroger. Sorry. I misread your subject. I can't find any photos in my collection, but I seem to remember seeing a few recycled cubes, maybe in Columbus or elsewhere in central Ohio. I think one may have be...

Thanks. Again, though, this thread is focused on former Colonial/Big Star stores that are still operating as grocery stores of some sort. That's the pivotal difference :) Columbus Ga, the former Colonial/Big star now Laundrymat http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn1558.jpg I do have other photos from Colum...

I lean toward Kroger, but I'm not sure. Any ideas on this one?

Actually, Western Auto is not really a department store, but more of a auto parts/hardware store.

Carry-over from another thread: One store I'd recommend visiting is this Dominion in Mississauga (western Toronto suburb). It's one of the few A&P/Dominions left that still has a parcel pickup. Here's a couple of pics I've taken of it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/78111739@N00/324452982/in/set-7...

Safeway briefly operated in the Toronto area. Anyone with info on specific locations?