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- 19 Feb 2006 09:57
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27734
Besides owning stores, another common deal is to enter into a lease with the landowner - a 30 year lease with a 15 year out exercisable by the tenant is common. Walgreens or whoever builds the store and the building reverts to the owner of the land at the end of the lease. The cash flow from the lea...
- 18 Feb 2006 10:40
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27734
... Walgreens must have a boatload of money, as much as they spend on new stores and fixing up. Or maybe they save so much on architect's fees... The freestanding store concept must have economic considerations that I'm not fully conversant with. All I know is that if you own a piece of vacant comm...
- 17 Feb 2006 15:29
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27734
- 17 Feb 2006 08:01
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Safeway/Alpha Beta relation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7871
Most sources I've seen indicate that the company did start in Washington DC as the Sanitary Grocery Company, but Sanitary became Safeway in 1928 (I believe)... I have a gap of a year to worry about, but in Richmond, Sanitary is shown in the 1940 city directory and the 1940-41 telephone book, and Sa...
- 17 Feb 2006 07:54
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Richmond, VA
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10699
- 16 Feb 2006 23:23
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Richmond, VA
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10699
Richmond, VA
I took some photos last week and thought that a couple might be of interest - though both the photos and the site design I threw together are of dubious quality. Anyway, it's a work in progress.
http://mysite.verizon.net/d.mcgrann/
http://mysite.verizon.net/d.mcgrann/
- 16 Feb 2006 17:16
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: When was VONS first used? I have a pat. date of 1916 on bake
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4009
Cinda, you can add up to 17 years to a patent date to determine when it might have been manufactured, so your saw could conceivably been made anywhere between 1916 and 1933 or so, after Vons began operating, which was before 1920. The patent date of July 4th points out an interesting bit of trivia -...
- 16 Feb 2006 15:13
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27734
When Walgreens enters a new market, they first open their smaller pharmacies...then come in with the bigger corner stores Walgreens came to Richmond a few years ago strictly with free-standing stores. They have 16 stores now, with quite a few of those in underserved areas, where they really fill a ...
- 16 Feb 2006 08:47
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27734
Is your new RiteAid sort of a cubist building, exterior of giant concrete squares with a kind of clipped-corner greenhouse as the entrance? Be interesting to see your photos. That sounds a lot like the last new Revcos that were taken over by CVS. The new Rite Aid near here that was opened less than...
- 15 Feb 2006 17:23
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27734
Yes, I believe that's true about Rexall being like IGA. All of them that I recall were So-and-So's Rexall, for example the Rennebohm's Rexall chain in Madison, WI. So, further digging might uncover the exact circumstances of their becoming Walgreens. I do believe most of them became Walgreens-owned...
- 15 Feb 2006 11:22
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27734
Re: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
You mean the thing to the left of "Walgreens"? That's a stylized mortar and pestle, used to crush things into powder and mix them together. It's an old pharmacy symbol - I've seen it in several logos.storeliker wrote:... I also dont quite understand the Walgreens emblem.
- 15 Feb 2006 11:15
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: New Uses for Grocery Stores
- Replies: 90
- Views: 96501
...it looks like the fate of most vacant grocery stores falls into a few certain categories: a start-up church, bingo parlor, discount funrniture, flea market, gym or Big Lots. I used to do a lot of due dilgence property inspections for a company that bought distressed commercial mortgages and real...
- 15 Feb 2006 11:11
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket "spokesmodels?"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16001
- 13 Feb 2006 18:45
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket "spokesmodels?"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16001
- 09 Feb 2006 13:28
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: New Uses for Grocery Stores
- Replies: 90
- Views: 96501