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There were W.T. Grant and later Grant City stores in Richmond. I remeber them well. One of the last Grant City stores is going to be demolished soon to make room for a Wal-Mart; right next to Regency Square mall. In the 1980's I took a course in analyzing financial statements at the University of Ri...

I enjoyed the shopping photos on this site : http://jsf1.homestead.com/woodstream1.html

I came across it while trying to find out some things about the former Two Guys discount stores.

Yesterday I was in an antiques mall that is located in an ex-Safeway, ex-Big Star in Midlothian, VA. Back in the day when Grand Union operated former Colonial Stores around here as Big Stars, they built a couple of new stores before they gave up on the market. This store I was in still had a few rem...

...now a 2-story building... Typically all Bests were two stories to begin with - the first floor being the showroom and the second floor for the actual storage of the merchandise, which was carried down a conveyor to merchandise pickup. They didn't necessarily have climate control on the second fl...

Today I went to a large antique "mall" that took over a big chunk of an older center across the street from the original Best in Richmond (which is now an indoor baseball training facility). Back in the 1970's, Best had used some of the space used by the antique place for toys and garden, ...

...There was also Kroger's attempt at a CUB-like superwarehouse format in Greenville, SC during the late 80's which also was sold to BiLo. IIRC is was named Welcome... Kroger came to Richmond in June, 1988 with one Welcome store (Pocono Crossing on Midlothian Turnpike) and plans for a second locati...

"The Big Lebowski" (1998) begins with The Dude (Jeff Bridges) drinking half-and-half out of the carton at Ralphs (don't know which one). At the checkout, he writes a check for 69 cents and shows his Ralphs Value Club card, which we learn later is The Dude's only form of identification. The...

I found out a couple of tidbits about Safeway International from a 1990 newspaper article. The International stores carried about 43,000 items as opposed to about 26,000 items in a "regular" Safeway. The format was consaidered so much a success in Richmond that there was talk in 1990 of us...

In my research lately, I was able to determine which were the last new stores built by A&P and Safeway before they pulled out of the Richmond market entirely. Here's the Safeway, now Kroger, previously Hannaford, previously The Grocery Store (Farm Fresh), built in 1991 (Safeway pulled out in 199...

That's interesting. I went to school with some Sgros.

A couple of families still in it big time that come to mind are the Schnucks in St. Louis and the Bashas in Phoenix.

It was a pretty common prototype for A&P in the 1970s. We discussed similar stores in this thread a while back: http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=52 I looked at the Dutch Square picture before I posted but for some reason didn't want to equate the Beaufont store with the Dutch Squ...

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeplboj/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/apbeauf.jpg This is an A&P in Richmond (7300 Midlothian Turnpike/Beaufont Mall) that opened about 1978, closing in 1985. Obviously, it was never particularly successful - it was in what was then a main shopping district, ...

The original Food Lion #1 was torn down several years ago. It was in the shopping center that used to be a few hundred feet from I-85 off US 52 in Salisbury NC. Is the store you're referring to in the picture accompanying this article? http://www.salisburypost.com/area/283609698904367.php I find it...

Does anyone know what the exact impetus was for Food Town to become Food Lion? There seems to have been a lot of Food Towns and Foodtowns around, and I wonder if there was one in particular that was pesky enough to cause the name change. I'd once heard that it was a Virginia Foodtown that precipitat...

I've added a few pictures to my site, including some Ukrop's pictures. Question: I took a picture of a neon sign on an older local store. You can see it here: http://mysite.verizon.net/d.mcgrann/id8.html There seems to be the letter "V" on the guy's hat in the sign, but as far as I can tel...