Thanks! I was inspired by both wnetmacman's post and a much older list I had a different Internet forum, which I cleaned up and expanded. An edit I did this morning both added Food 4 Less and clarified the Wal-Mart expansion.
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- 20 Feb 2020 10:23
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: College Station-Bryan grocery stores since 1980
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4739
Re: College Station-Bryan grocery stores since 1980
- 19 Feb 2020 11:24
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: College Station-Bryan grocery stores since 1980
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4739
College Station-Bryan grocery stores since 1980
Figured that I should do something like this since I have the resources (old phone books, etc.) and the local knowledge. Despite the area being dominated by H-E-B with a few Krogers to balance it out, the area has a history of other retailers including Albertsons, Safeway, and even Winn-Dixie. Like ...
- 16 Feb 2020 20:41
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Short-lived grocery stores
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6208
Re: Short-lived grocery stores
Hamady Complete Food Center, a 74,000 square feet store located in Flint, MI (in a former Kroger closed in 2014) managed to be in and out in three months back in 2018.
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- 14 Feb 2020 11:37
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Lafayette, LA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6540
Re: Lafayette, LA
2863 Ambassador Caffery had to have been renovated before 2016...it had the "Albertsons Market" signage on the aisle markers when I visited in 2015, indicated it might have been renovated prior to the buyback of NAI. https://safewayalbertsonstexas.blogspot.com/2016/01/albertsons-2775-lafay...
- 13 Feb 2020 12:26
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Short-lived grocery stores
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6208
Re: Short-lived grocery stores
Here in SoCal the king of short-lived grocery stores would have to be Haggen, which lasted about 6 months from first store opening in March 0f 2015 until August 2015 when it started closing stores. IIRC all stores were closed by December. Haggen is cheating a little since they were previously groce...
- 12 Feb 2020 15:21
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Short-lived grocery stores
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6208
Short-lived grocery stores
With the recent demise of Lucky's Market, were there any stores in your area that didn't last very long at all? In my hometown, a Weingarten (owned by Grand Union at the time) only lasted for two months, and I know there were a small handful of Albertsons around 2001-2002 that lasted for 2 years or ...
- 01 Feb 2020 10:15
- Forum: History: Department Store Chains
- Topic: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12500
Re: Comprehensive list of Kmart locations
I had been working on a similar list, but in Texas. I had been working on an updated version (a good part of it is out of date), but it hasn't been published yet. http://www.carbon-izer.com/retail/kmart/kmartlist.html I will tell you that according to the Houston Chronicle, 8315 Long Point Road, 121...
- 04 Sep 2019 23:38
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Texas Updates
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15602
Re: Texas Updates
FYI, Houston is on my "soon" list, but I currently only have data through 1982. It looks like they may have stopped publishing city directories for Houston by 1986. I assure you that there are city directories for Houston that exist past 1986 (a point in the mid-1980s is missing, though f...
- 03 Sep 2019 08:43
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Texas Updates
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15602
Re: Texas Updates
The other part of Food Lion's problems even before that was that H-E-B started building in Houston first, hitting fast and hard. As a result (that and the ABC special), only a dozen stores in Houston ever opened, and pulled around 1994. And the irony of the Houston portion of this story (they got m...
- 03 Sep 2019 00:12
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Red & White stores
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7834
Re: Red & White stores
I am completing research on businesses in my town. I live in Tomball, Texas on the north side of Houston. I am told there once was a Red & White store in Tomball. Can anyone help me with any details on that store? The Rosenberg public library (George Memorial Library) tends to have historic dir...
- 03 Sep 2019 00:10
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
- Topic: Texas Updates
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15602
Re: Texas Updates
Did a little more checking. Food Lion entered Texas in 1991-1992 and had closed many of the stores by early 1994. The gave up on the entire state a couple of years later, so their entrance and exit all happened during my "missing" years in the 1990s (I was not able to get data for 1995). ...
- 27 Jul 2019 08:16
- Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
- Topic: Safeway 1986 & Unsettling Times Eastern Division
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9642
Re: Safeway 1986 & Unsettling Times Eastern Division
Didn't the Safeway "Eastern Division" not really happen until after the sell-offs? I seem to recall there was a separate Virginia division that was mostly sold off and merged in with the Washington DC Division.
- 27 Jul 2019 08:13
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: American Stores Company operated restaurants in the 1980's
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9778
Re: American Stores Company operated restaurants in the 1980's
Remember, the American Stores pre-1979 is not the same American Stores post-merger (that's Skaggs). An article I found stated that American Stores operated around 50 restaurants, with no mention of Skaggs' restaurants, unless they were operations inside the drug stores.
- 27 Jul 2019 08:07
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Marie Callender's
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9527
Re: Marie Callender's
There was a time when Marie Callender's was expanding nationwide in the 1990s shortly after Ramada Inns sold it to Wilshire Restaurant Group in 1989, with a store opening in as far as Waco, Texas in the late 1990s, though this was reversed by the early 2000s and the chain retreated back to the West ...
- 26 Jul 2019 19:29
- Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
- Topic: Jack In The Box "Cube" signs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9299
Re: Jack In The Box "Cube" signs
The Jack In The Box in Longview, WA, which I believe was built in the 1970s, has a cube road sign still in use, which has been updated to the new logo. I was curious as to how late these were used, as I have seen these in only a handful of locations. Not THAT long ago, I can name at least two store...