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In SW Washington/NW Oregon, Hi-School Pharmacy operated combination drug and hardware stores. the hardware section depending on location was an Ace or True Value. Sadly, many were bought out by Walgreens recently, although a few still are open.

There were several Danielson Thriftways in Vancouver, Camas, and Washougal, all of which have closed down in the last few years. I think Danielson no longer operates any grocery stores.

I have seen a few changes with Fred Meyer from the mid-80s to today. Fred Meyer used to have the food department seperated from the rest of the store with seperate checkouts and everything until updating the cash registers in the late 80s (at which point a few stores actually still had mechanical re...

There were two Grand Central stores in Boise which were bought by Fred Meyer, and were eventually replaced by new stores which included food departments.

I remember what I believe to be the first Maxx Food & Drug located at Glenwood and Chinden in Garden City (Boise). It seems to me that at first it had two x's in the name, then changed to Max Foods. The store originally was D'Alessandro's "whole world of shopping" and was a very nice s...