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I remember when this Vons opened (1982-83). It was indeed an old late '70s/early '80s interior that they never really replaced, apparently. When Vons went with the white/red/black design by 1988 or so, this particular store was simply painted over but not remodeled. I wish I could see the photos (I ...

Hi Luckysaver: As a lifelong Encinitas resident (who provided the Encinitas pics of that Skaggs Alpha Beta!) I can attest to the fact that there was indeed a Diho here. It wasn't here long, and might not even have been related to the chain. I went there often as a kid, and it was in a shopping cente...

There was one in Encinitas in the early to mid 1980s. It was one of my favorite places to visit when I was a kid. I wonder if this Diho is related to the chain you're talking about ...

The K-Mart in Escondido (now closed and torn down) had a Big Bear supermarket attached to it, although I never knew if it was an actual K-Mart grocery before Big Bear. The Big Bear was older even in the early 1980s when I remembered it. And it was small, separated by a divider.

I recall Edwards' appearance in Food Basket ads here in San Diego. When I was a kid, my parents got both LA and San Diego TV stations, and the ads were the same except for the name difference. An original Food Basket location in Encinitas closed within the last year. Kind of had a bizarre swap of na...

Toward the end of Gemco's existence, they were test marketing concept stores with a specific architecture ... big, blue-tiled box stores with a cut-out corner as the entrance. Inside, all pastel shades. This was the time when Gemco introduced its new logo with the yellow diamond. The Encinitas store...