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Does anybody remember a drugstore called Super S by Safeway. I remember going to a Super S in Banning Ca., and when was Super S bought by Thrifty's ? There are dozens of posts about Safeway Super S on the forum including several in this very thread. If you'll do a search, you'll find plenty of info...

That's the store I featured on my front page a few months back:

http://www.groceteria.com/journal/2006/10.html#103006

2. In the 1930s, Greenville, Michigan had two A&P's a block apart. Actually, that was fairly common in the 1930s. Most older chains hit their peak in terms of numbers of stores between 1929 and 1935, which is when they started consolidating into supermarkets. Since the stores served a primarily...

I've split this discussion off from a different topic. Please (as always) try to keep it focused on history leading to the situation rather than just the current status of the stores. Thanks.

I've moved the discussion of multiple stores of the same chain very close to each other (but not necessarily in the same center) into a separate topic, since that's a radically different issue than the one in the current topic:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1169

For clarification, American Stores was required to divest most Alpha Beta stores in 1990, all of them Southern California locations, as a result of its 1988 acquisition of Lucky Stores. Burkle's entity bought the majority of these stores, but some were sold to other operators, and American was allow...

Postcard view of a McDaniel's market in Oxnard that I snagged from an eBay listing a couple of years ago:

At Valley Plaza in North Hollywood there's a Smart & Final (former Thriftimart) near a Ralphs (former Hughes). I'm looking at that part of the book now, and the 1949 site plan shows them as part of the same development. I think the other center was more confined to the environs of May Co. store...

Focusing this toward history (please), the practice of two supermarkets in one shopping center was extremely common until the early 1970s in most of the country, albeit less so on the west coast than in the south and midwest. In fact, it was almost a standard practice for anything above the smallest...

rich wrote:White Cross is a co-op and has been around since the 60s or 70s. It's not very big and it doesn't operate everywhere.

There was a small White Cross chain in Greensboro NC in the 1960s, based around a former Walgreens store downtown. Revco purchased the stores there, probably about 1970.

Please, can we somehow frame this is terms of history?

Per the original poster, he's interested in how health regulations may have eliminated bulk food sales in the past and over time, which wasn't readily apparent from the original post.

Sorry for any confusion. Now back to the topic...

I suspect it closed when the larger stores on Broadway and on South Land Park Drive were opened. Actually, even closer, I think, was the Franklin Boulevard store which was replaced about 1961 after the original store burned down. It's still a grocer too (King's, I believe), or it was last time I wa...

They were also all over Georgia and in some surrounding states as well (I used to frequent a store in Lakeland, Florida). I believe they got a bit of a boost when they acquired some or all of the Record Bar chain (Remember their graphics? A candy bar wrapper with the name "Record Bar" in ...

runchadrun wrote:I do remember the overhead sign being cool, and I hope you took a picture of that.

Yes. Yes, I did, although I'd forgotten. This sign makes me think the Big G name probaby is original, or at least longstanding:

buckhead wrote:Table Supply - used on various products at various times

FYI, Table Supply Stores was the original name of Win-Dixie (as owned by the Davis family) before all the mergers (Winn & Lovett, Dixie Home, etc.)