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Actually the Food Lion logo is the Parent cos. logo (they are known in Europe as "Le Lion"

Eddie Basha and his sons have a profitable niche in AZ and have no current plans to expand out of state (except for the Needles store and one in Crownpoint NM) If they were, NM would be a likely expansion, similar demographics, and some operators desiring to get rid of their stores (like Raley's and...

Bashas' basically is tied with Safeway for #2 share behind Fry's. Most of Fry's stores are in Phoenix & Tucson, while Bashas' and Safeway dominate the smaller towns. They operate under several formats, the traditional Bashas' markets, the upscale A.J.'s stores, the Latino-oriented Food City stor...

I also remember Pillsbury's "Space Food Sticks". Supposedly NASA astronauts ate this on space missions. I remember those, they had the taste of a Tootsie Roll, only softer (and "vitamin fortified") Don't forget those other "fine" products from the Doughboy, Sweet-10 liq...

In the Southwest, the major private label soda bottler is Southwest Canning, which is owned by Kalil Bottling of Tucson (a RC/7up bottler)

I know "Edy's" was just something Dreyer's had to make up to satisfy Breyer's hassling them when they (Dreyer's) moved east.

The "Edy's" comes from one of the co-founders of Dreyers, there was a Mr Edy and a Mr Dreyer

Another product gone, Schilling spices out west, replaced by the McCormick brand

Who remembers "melloream"...the vegetable oil based milk alternative? And Barq's soda in more than "root beer" flavor (they had strawberry, orange, etc.) And the "box corral"...where all of the empty cardboard boxes were placed...for anyone who needed and empty box. Tod...

Furr's Cafeteria has gone back to its old script "Furr's" logo which came from the Texas supermarket chain that founded it.

Of course the fast-food chains like to "retro" their logos...several McDonalds have brought back the classic golden arches look again...down to the "Speedy" logo on the signs. Then there is KFC with its stores of various designs and Colonel images. By the way, KFC wants to be kno...

Arizona was also the lone Western outpost of Revco Drug...they entered here by buying the locally-based Ryan-Evans Drug Stores

And we were the first market out west for Eckerd and CVS, yet Rite Aid is almost non-existant here (they have one lonely store in Sedona, formerly a Payless)

Add to this...

Steinberg of Canada acquiring Smitty's in Arizona in the early 80s

Furr's expansion into Denver and Phoenix (which lasted only 5 years)

Or Fry's moving into AZ in the early 60s..their home base was way up in the Bay Area

Don't forget their budget label, Scotch Buy..which has been reborn as "Simply Red"

Actually Safeway in Gallup moved a few blocks down Hwy 666 to the former Smith's store (and uses the old Smith's logo for signage)...it is a part of the PHX division