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- 17 Oct 2020 11:47
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Kmart closures (pre-2000)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1598
Re: Kmart closures (pre-2000)
How many of those were actual outright closures vs. relocations or replacements?
- 16 Sep 2020 13:33
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: 1980 Discount Store Directory
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1616
Re: 1980 Discount Store Directory
Just look at that Top 10-only two of them are still viable companies. Really the only two choices most consumers have nowadays. And yes K-Mart still exists but can you really count it and technically K-Mart Corp. went away with the merger with Sears.
- 01 Aug 2020 11:41
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "Grandma" at 125
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2342
Re: "Grandma" at 125
The things to keep in mind is that even A&P's nostalgia value diminished over time. Their decline began in the 50s and they missed the boat on just about every trend from that point onward. Two of the biggest problems they had (both self-inflicted wounds I might add) were they kept way too many...
- 30 Jul 2020 12:40
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "Grandma" at 125
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2342
Re: "Grandma" at 125
I think Super Fresh initially extended into the Philadelphia area as well. It was a joint labor/management venture where the employees got some say in how the stores were run and a % of either store sales and/or profits if labor costs were kept below a certain level. In exchange for that, the unions...
- 28 Jul 2020 11:14
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: "Grandma" at 125
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2342
"Grandma" at 125
There's a current E-Bay listing for a 1984 issue of an A+P employee magazine highlighting the company's 125th. anniversary celebration. One of the photos accompanying the listing is a chart of the various divisions and store counts at that time. Found it very interesting and illustrative at how much...
- 12 Jul 2020 15:49
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
- Replies: 100
- Views: 97531
Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Side view of the DTS 400
- 12 Jul 2020 11:21
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
- Replies: 100
- Views: 97531
Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning
I remember those DTS registers at Price Chopper as well but I recall the digital readout being on the side of the machine facing the customer as you stood in the checkout lane. I believe the readout was in orange. Don't ever remember that pole set-up you're speaking of. Maybe it was just the configu...
- 13 Feb 2020 17:41
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Short-lived grocery stores
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2732
Re: Short-lived grocery stores
We had (in the Albany, NY area) the very last Grand Union opened and (as far as I know) the only one of it's type ever completed (there was at least one other near Marist College in the Poughkeepsie area that was being built but never opened). The one that did open had about 6 months from Grand Ope...
- 03 Feb 2020 13:25
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7252
Re: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
Just thought of another one that I've had questions about. Line 2169 Middleburg Heights, Oh-I visited this one a little over ten years ago and at the time the attached store was vacant. I'm presuming it was a grocery store at one time. I see the opening date for the K-Mart was sometime in 1969. Was ...
- 03 Feb 2020 13:19
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7252
Re: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
Thank you for your suggestions, TW-Upstate NY! However, I checked the opening date of the Dickson City store and October 18 appears to be correct. Here's a newspaper clipping from that day: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43496244/the_timestribune/ I stand corrected and I thank you very much! But I...
- 02 Feb 2020 11:45
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7252
Re: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
WOW! Quite impressive indeed. Nearest store to me now is White Plains, NY. And if I may, a few modifications: Lines 1954+1955 the Amsterdam, NY stores: the first one was a former Grants and opened in either late '75 or sometime in '76 and was replaced by the store on line 1955-a Super K right down t...
- 02 Jan 2020 18:25
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Red & White stores
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4571
Re: Red & White stores
Does anyone else think that Lawrenceville store looks like a possible former A+P or is it just me? That brick front looks like it could've been added to make the store an A+P Centennial model and the front windows look like an A+P configuration of that era. Also the oval sign out front could easily ...
- 21 Nov 2019 12:34
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Old-School Supermarket Meat Departments
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4009
Re: Old-School Supermarket Meat Departments
Visible meat-cutting areas are hardly a thing of the past in my area and are quite common at local Price Chopper and Hannaford stores.
- 09 May 2019 14:51
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: What are some of the reasons why supermarket history is so interesting?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4424
Re: What are some of the reasons why supermarket history is so interesting?
Some of my best childhood memories are of going to the grocery store. As I got older and some of the stores my parents frequented went away, I just had to find out why. That's what got me into the nuts and bolts of the whole topic and then you take into consideration the architecture and how grocery...
- 07 Apr 2019 16:16
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Older KFC Locations
- Replies: 28
- Views: 33585
Re: Older KFC Locations
267 N. Main St Gloversville, NY. Closed as a KFC in the very early '90's and was then a very short lived chicken and ribs place and eventually became a Chinese restaurant which closed some time ago. Just took this earlier this afternoon so this is how the building currently stands.