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Another beer that i ran across on e-bay and whose store I remember was beer from the Zody's chain in Southern, Calif.

I agree with you that it's sad that Jewel supermarkets couldn't make it in other areas out of their basic Chicago market area but some chains and it really doesn't doesn't matter what their names are just weren't meant to succeed because of several factors involved. For example in Oklahome first the...

I'm not really familiar with the Kroger greenhouse type stores but I will tell you what I remember from having worked at Market Basket. I worked and opened 2 new Market Basket Stores in Calif. in the late 1970's and those new stores were probably about 35,000 to 38,000 sq.ft. , the outside decor was...

Hi Steve I wasn't aware of Food Fair's casino ownership. I knew that grocery store chains often owned their own cattle ranches and operations like that. I used to read my dad Progressive Grocer Magazines and any other kind of grocery business publication and I just enjoyed reading about all of the o...

Hi Steve I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on because it was proably in either the 1950's ir 1960's that I rmemeber seeing the Food Fair Stores and I only remember one in particular and unfortunately I didn't go inside but had driven by it a few times but always at night. I think that the siz...

I'm think that at one time that originally they were 2 seperate companies who may have combined operations at some later date in time probably in the mid to late 1950's.

thanks for the reply, Wayne

I rmemeber the Fox Markets name but was never in one as i lived in Orange County and didn't have any of their stores nearby. I remember the Food Fair Stores and even remember Food Fair Stores in Las Vegas, Nv. I lived and grew up in Orange County in the town of Orange and I don't remember or recall ...

Here's one that goes back aways to probably the mid to late 1950's. About the same time as the old White Front Stores were operating in Southern California/ There was a competitor to one of the White Front Stores in Anaheim, Calif. I believe that it was located on South State College Blvd. and almos...

I remember one in Santa Ana, Calif. and it was run just like all the other A & P stores of that time. Just another regular grocery store with nothing special about it at all. It didn't look much like the A & P stores in the midwest but more like a Boy's Market or a McCoys Market in a strip c...

Does anybody remember the small 10 store chain called All American Markets in Southern California. This was the same chain that Albertson's bought out to make its entry into the Southern California Grocery Arena. The thing that I remembered most was that the All American Markets each had a gigantic ...

Does anybody remember the convenience store chain called U-Tell-Um. At one time in the 1950's they tried operating a conventional size grocery in Orange, Calif. where I lived. They were however unsuccessful in being able to make a success of the store which was located on South Main St. Later on the...

Does anybody remember Mayfair Markets Discount Stores in Southern California? Mayfair Markets tried to change to a discount format. They renamed these stores A & M Discount Foods. (of course the A & M stood for Arden Mayfair). I remember them having one in Orange, Calif. where I lived and it...

I was wondering if anyone remembered the Merket Basket Grocery Store Chain in Southern Calif. (owned by the Kroger Company). I worked for this company until I moved to Oklahomo. They only had about 62 or 64 stores but the new stores that they had built were nice and the atmosphere friendly. The stor...

I was wondering if anyone remembers ths McCartney Grocery Stores which operated in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Enid, Oklahome. I always thought it ironic that they chose as their signage logo the big M from the Maytag Company and that Maytag never sued them for using part of their logo look. Here is a...

I was wondering if anyone remembered the old Raisin Markets Grocery Stores in Southern Calif.? I remember them before Alpha Beta Markets bought them out. I remember that they seemed to mostly be free standing stores and not in shopping centers or strip centers. The one thing that I remember most is ...