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In their closing days, the A&Ps were neat and clean, and devoid of customers. The perishables weren't great, but the same could be said of their main competitors, Kroger, Winn-Dixie, & Cub. At that time, Kroger was rolling out its card and had adopted high/low pricing. A&P could have tri...

President's Choice is used by quite a few regional chains. Harris-Teeter used it when they were in Atlanta. Loblaw is part of the George Weston Foods empire (a large multi-national food processor based in Canada) which makes a lot of this stuff. Weston had made products for National Tea when they ow...

Winn-Dixie used a "discount" format in Atlanta from the end of the 60s until the late 70s and did not give trading stamps. They used S&H Green Stamps in most of the Carolinas, but switched in the 70s to Top Value. They used Top Value Stamps in Miami & Tampa, but used S&H in som...

These are stores supplied by C&S Wholesale, which bought what was left of Grand Union at bankruptcy.

Giant of Landover had Esther Peterson for awhile. She was their consumer rep and had been a special assistant for consumer affairs in the Carter administration. Before that she'd been Assistant Labor Secretary under Truman and had had various labor and state department positions related to employmen...

It looks like 50s or early 60s--National and Jewel would be the likeliest guesses, because they had the most stores. A&P is unlikely. Hillman or Del Farm might be dark horse guesses. I don't think Eagle ever had stores in Chicago proper. Outside chance of being a Dominick's, but they stayed in t...

Try going through back issues of "Progressive Grocer". They have had a running store of the month feature for years that usually includes a floor plan. Some stores have been chosen specifically because of unusual floor plans and occasionally they've had follow-ups on what happened to unusu...

Re: cost. During the stagflation years of the late 70s and early 80s, some chains would give you anywhere from 2 to 5 cents/bag if you brought & used your own paper bags.

All of the older malls (pre-1970s) and large strips in Cleveland had groceries as anchors: Great Lakes Mall: Fisher (later demolished & moved to outparcel as Fazio's) & Kroger (demolished for Horne's Dept Store) Richmond Mall: Kroger (had mall & outside access) Parmatown: A&P, Fisher...

The exterior with the mansard roof could have been just about any chain from the late 60s through the 70s. National, Jewel, Acme, and many others used this, so it would have been a common design. One of the first to use something like this was the Fazio's chain in Cleveland, which used a shingled ma...

"K-Mart Plaza" was a name they used generically in many places for first generation stores, that had a grocery next door. Sometimes they'd have other businesses, like a fast food or a Ponderosa-type place on an outparcel. Often nothing besides K-Mart, it's auxiliary businesses (like the au...

There's a Kosher supermarket (Kosher Mart, I believe is the current name; formerly it was Katz), on Boiling Brook Road in Rockville, MD.

There are several old colonials operating as Super Fresh in the DC area. One is at Yuma Ave, NW & Massachusetts Ave.

Clairmont & North Decatur was an A&P Future Store. There are pictures of a long ago Colonial across the street in a strip on N. Decatur, probably in the space that was a long running book store. There was a very old Colonial in Inman Park on Euclid Ave. that was a natural foods co-op until a...

They often were called "Barney's Cafe" and tended to be small annexes to the Deli. A very few stores had a separate entrance. These seemed to be a feature of the first generation of greenhouse stores.

The current Publix on Ponce de Leon near Highland in Atlanta is a new building on the site of a former Big Star that later became an A&P. Publix bought the A&P, but replaced the building with one that's about the same size. I've heard different histories for the Publix at Ansley Mall in Atla...