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There was a Food World in Kissimmee, FL. Everything in Central FLorida was __ World after the Opening of The Magic Kingdom, located just up the road. It was owned by Publix and was one of their older stores. It was located in a big-old half abandonded shopping center. It closed in the late 80's, I b...

There was a Great American supermarket in the Arnot Mall in Horseheads, NY during the mid 70's. The mall was, at the time, pretty small with an Iszard's Department Store (a local store) and a JC Penney, along with a handfull (maybe 25) of other smaller stores. It was small, but a real mall. When Arn...

I used to shop at a supermarket called Great American Stores in upstate New York. I can't find anything about them on the internet. Does anyone know about their demise?

My guess is that Wegman's and Tops suffocated them many years ago.

I worked for Grand Union in the early 70s. The store was very small, understaffed, dirty and very busy as the only other choice in town was a Gristedes store. The A&P was about 12 miles away. It was a pretty miserable place to work, with virtually no training and managers and assistant managers ...

I grew up in New York, and I remember that, at one time, there was an A&P almost everywhere. It was another way of saying "the store"; "I'm going to the A&P". When I moved to upstate NY in the 70's, all of the stores up there were either closed or preparing to do so. Ther...

There was a PLUS (Priced Low, U Save) store in Peekskill, NY, (I believe) for a brief moment in time. It was a prototype older A&P with the cupola and the front porch deal in front. Like many of the big store ideas in the 70s, it was short lived.