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Groceteria.com is a site about the history of American and Canadian urban chain supermarkets, from the 1920s through the present, with an emphasis on spatial history (buildings and locations).

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Giant Food Price Cutter 1933

New stuff over the past couple of months:

Again, follow along on Bluesky if you want these updates as they happen.

I’m also still plugging away on reformatting all the location list pages. It’s slow and tedious and I can only maker myself do so many in sone sitting, but I’ll get there.

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Remodeling

As you can see, I’ve done some significant remodeling of ye olde Groceteria over the past few days.

Since people are inherently resistant to change, I’ll stick to the benefits of this particular round and leave the negatives for the comments (I’m kidding. Sort of.):

  • The main site and the message board now have relatively consistent navigation and actually look like one site. Imagine…
  • I think the typography is nicer and the layout in general is cleaner. Your mileage may vary.
  • The new base theme I’m using is incredibly customizable, which will no doubt allow me to do all sorts of new and fabulous things with it. Eventually.
  • Remodeling every few years is a generally good thing to do.

However, if you want nostalgia, here’s what the site looked like 25 years ago:

Site front page, 2000

For the record, I’m also still working on reformatting the location lists as I mentioned a week or two back. Canada is done and I’m working my way through the U.S. alphabetically. I’m somewhere in the middle of Illinois right now.

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