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Colonial operated a small number of stores under the "Zayre Foods" banner. More commonly, they had Albers, Colonial, or Big Star stores in shopping centers with Zayre.

Best had a number of stores in the Cleveland area. None of them were of the architecturally distinctive variety (those came in the mid- to late 70s). The one near me was a former Federal Dept Store (a low-end chain based in Detroit) that was among Best's first Cleveland stores (circa 1972). It later...

What about Stop & Shop (they were everywhere), Big Y (out of Springfield), or Star?

LS Ayres in Indianapolis had "Ayr-way" (which, like Richway, was eventually bought by Target). Federated Dept. Stores (Lazarus et al.) had Gold Circle and Gold Triangle, while May had Venture (in St. Louis & Chicago, as well as places in between). Kroger operated a small number of Gold...

Supermarkets quit being located in malls around the mid-60s. Occasionally they turned up on outparcels near later malls, like Euclid Square Mall in Cleveland (a Fazio) or South DeKalb Mall near Atlanta (Winn-Dixie). Sometimes they survived malling, like the super markets at Westgate in Cleveland (al...

Discount store supermarkets were usually run by a chain, usually using the name of the discount stores, then "foods". K-Mart Foods was, indeed, more largely an Allied Supermarkets operation. Colonial had some of these stores in the Southeast and during the early 70s, National Tea operated ...