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    • About the Author
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    • A Quick History of the Supermarket
    • Methodology
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Bibliography and Sources
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Who wants to be a Guinea pig?

Posted on July 19, 2015

I’m testing a new way of generating the location lists on the site using Google Sheets. The biggest benefits are that this approach should be more tablet- and mobile-friendly, and also will make it easier for me to have the most updated data I have on the site without having…

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Happy birthday to me

Posted on July 5, 2014

More precisely, happy birthday to Groceteria.com, which was born fifteen years ago today as a post on another site. It was part of some of the earliest research that eventually became Groceteria.com. The post noted that this storefront on Irving Street in San Francisco was originally one of the earlier…

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Safeway, Eastern Market, Washington DC

Posted on February 14, 2008

228 East Seventh Street SE, Washington DC (1987, Washington Post). Opened in 1940, this Safeway store at 228 Seventh Street SE in Washington DC managed to hang on until 1986. It was still profitable until the end; the need for expensive renovations was cited as the reason for its closing.…

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Posted in General HIstory, Groceteria Journal, Vintage Photos Tagged DC, Safeway, San Francisco 1 Comment
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Christmas Vacation

Posted on December 28, 2007

For my Christmas vacation, I visited a Lucky store and finally saw in person one of those murals I helped their ad agency assemble. Appropriately, the first “new Lucky” I visited was also the very first “old Lucky” I ever visited, way back in 1992: the Lakeshore Plaza store in…

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My Mural (Sort Of)

Posted on October 14, 2007

Photo by Mark Winston. Finally, a picture of the historic mural in the new/old Lucky Stores of Northern California. I’ve been itching to see this, because I supplied their ad agency with three of the six photos they used. Once again, my betrothed has come to the rescue.

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