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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.)

I was going through some old photos and came across this one I took in 2003. It was a great store, well-preserved from (I assume) it's mid-1960s roots. I'm just wondering if it's a chain prototype or was always an independent. Anyone with ideas?

Dave wrote:For a while, it seemed like there were more surviving Burger Chef birdhouses than old Burger Chef buildings, at least around here.

I love running across old Burger Chefs. They're usually considered a more midwestern and southern chain, but I've found stragglers in Fresno and Redwood City CA as well.

APCO25 wrote:Add Media Play and SamGoody to the collection of defunct record store chains around here. I guess Ipod killed the record store the way "video killed the radio star"?

I think with Sam Goody and Media Play, it was more a case of assisted suicide...

There were two, maybe three in the Charlotte area: -- 10414 East Indpendence Blvd, Matthews NC (may have had Sav-a-Center interior, now Big Lots) -- 7004 East Harris Blvd, Charlotte NC (now Food Lion) -- Tower Place Festival, Pineville NC (not confirmed, but there's a building I suspect) It's intere...