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You're correct in that the Harvest Foods name lives on. The company liquidated their assets in 1998 or 1999, with the remaining stores and the warehouse going to Affiliated Foods Southwest. The stores are still there, but the list on the site isn't a fraction of what Harvest once was. Homeland has a...

Corpus Christi was part of the Houston division. That division was divested in 1988, and was sold to a group of manager who renamed their markets Apple Tree. Apple Tree only made it a few years. (Little Rock did the same thing with Harvest Foods, but HF lived until 1998.)

Oh my, where to start.......... I grew up in East Texas, near Longview. There was a Safeway in any town over 5000 population. I remember when they all closed in 1987. Longview had several different versions of Safeways (except Marina). On South Green St. were the two oldest stores, side by side. An ...

Edric, I looked up the store you're talking about on local.live.com. Most of NYC has Bird's Eye Views. This store, while having the rounded roof similar to the Marina style Safeways, most likely never was one. Most of the Marina stores were nearly square in their floorplans. There are several exampl...

Wal-Mart did experiment with company-owned gas stations in the 70's. They were similar to what they have now with Mirastar and Murphy USA, but company owned. In their 1979 Annual Report, the company stated that "Gas stations are an increasingly familiar sight at Wal-Mart stores". I also re...

Venture stores were primarily in the Midwest, with stores reaching as far south as Dallas and Houston, but never in California. They went out of business not long after Caldor. The majority of their stores went to Kmart, who has since closed most of them.

Most of the Woolcos here were in shopping centers as such too, mostly paired with Delchamps food stores. The centers were usually geographically named; for instance the New Iberia, LA store was in what was known as Iberia Plaza, Bayou Vista was in St. Mary Plaza (for the civil parish it resided in) ...

There were about a dozen or so Woolco stores in Louisiana. I wasn't here to shop at them, but I can give you a list of locations and what became of them. As a note: most of the stores bought by Wal-Mart were gutted beyond recognition. Kmart stores were not remodeled much, but are all closed. Others ...

The National we all knew that was left in St. Louis and New Orleans was a part of Loblaw of Canada, and Loblaw is still in business. Loblaw sold the final two divisions in 1995. There are still a few National stores in St. Louis, and these stores are owned by a group of former managers. Schwegmann B...

Jewel T actually outlasted the Jewel name in most of the markets it arrived in. Jewel T was also much like Save-A-Lot, who bought the chain from ASC prior to the ABS buyout. The major difference between Jewel T and Save-A-Lot was that most Jewel T stores had no coolers, only dry goods. SAL has produ...

Joske's was bought out by Dillards in the late 80s or so. Federated may or may not have owned Allied at that point, but none of the Joske's stores are Federated branded now; they're all Dillards.

Winn Dixie DID eliminate Astor, Thrifty Maid, Superbrand and Crackin' Good in favor of their own Winn Dixie brand. I still don't understand the logic. The only brand still in existence is Chek, the soft drink brand.

In 1976, the majority of the W.T. Grant Co. was absorbed by Kmart. Grant was in bankruptcy at the time, and sold out to avoid liquidation. Kmart attempted to turn these stores into their own, but reportedly had problems integrating them into their system. Many of these stores remained open for some ...

Winn Dixie: America's Supermarket (even though they barely covered 1/4 of the country....)
And their recent, failed slogan: Winn Dixie, The Real Deal. (That sunk like the Titanic.)

The first Wal-Mart is still standing in Rogers, AR. While it's no longer a Wal-Mart, there is some mention on the site of its beginnings. WMT #1 has been replaced twice, once in 1974 (also still standing across the street) and in the mid to early 90s (a few blocks up) which has been added to and rem...