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- 22 Aug 2017 00:33
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: Smith's in El Paso
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13014
Re: Smith's in El Paso
Not surprising that the Smith stores were sold. They were a long ways from a distribution center and were an island. When the merger happened a few problems popped up with the El Paso stores and some of their back office operations had to be moved to Houston with operational control being handled by ...
- 22 Aug 2017 00:01
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 143529
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Kroger has been numbering stores for a very long time. Within the company the store is prefaced with the division code or division letter(s). Houston is division 034, and the letter code is: HP. So store #995 would be known within the company as 034-995 or HP-995. There more than likely is more than ...
- 21 Aug 2017 23:54
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 143529
Re: Kroger Family Centers
The Family Center in Victoria had been around for a long time. It was probably built in the late 60's or early 70's. The Victoria store sale was one of the stores included along with all the stores in the Valley and Corpus to Furr's in the mid 80's.
- 21 Aug 2017 23:46
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Kroger in Lafayette LA
- Replies: 22
- Views: 22756
Re: Kroger in Lafayette LA
The Lafayette stores were closed along with all the stores in Baton Rouge area (excluding Lake Charles, Alex and Shreveport area) stores in a contract dispute in the early 80's. The Lafayette and Baton Rouge stores were part of the Houston Division. In the 80's Houston and Dallas were separate ...
- 15 May 2016 19:31
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Plank Road Grocery Stores
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8387
Re: Plank Road Grocery Stores
The 6 boxes on the roofs were actually air intakes. The compressor and condensers were all located in the engine room. The circles were exhaust fans that were controlled by thermostats. Some of the stores a/c condensers were located on the roof near the engine room as the huge a/c unit was next to ...
- 15 May 2016 09:03
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: Was this an old Kroger, or what? (Conroe, TX)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12191
Re: Was this an old Kroger, or what? (Conroe, TX)
It was not an old Kroger store. Randall's had a store in this center before moving to South and eventually closing it. The Family Center opened in 1972 and was across the freeway - now currently a Hobby Lobby. Most Greenhouse stores had one big A/C unit located in the rear of the store with a ...
- 15 May 2016 09:00
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: Albertsons in Houston
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24798
Re: Albertsons in Houston
Kroger Houston did not have Starbucks in their stores until they purchased the Albertson's stores.
Albertson's was in Conroe in the late 80's with a single store on South Loop 336.
Albertson's was in Conroe in the late 80's with a single store on South Loop 336.
- 15 May 2016 08:54
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: When was this Kroger built?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9717
Re: When was this Kroger built?
The store (#114) was built in the early 70's.
- 26 Oct 2015 10:25
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Old Albertsons store brands
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15788
Re: Old Albertsons store brands
One of the reasons why (I think) Albertsons bought Safeway was to gain access to their store brands, since SuperValu had killed most of the brands and kept others (like Wild Harvest). If it was a reason to me it would be at the bottom. When Albertson's split I don't know which company (Celebrus or ...
- 24 Sep 2015 21:54
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: Where in Texas (?) is this former Kroger?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12208
Re: Where in Texas (?) is this former Kroger?
This was #292. Opened in the early 80's and closed when Kroger left San Antonio in the 90's.
- 24 Aug 2015 21:43
- Forum: History: USA Midwest/Plains
- Topic: Frankenstein Kroger-SupeRx (Chillicothe, IL)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4999
Re: Frankenstein Kroger-SupeRx (Chillicothe, IL)
That is one ugly remodel. Kroger build two stores in Houston in 1993 that were new construction of a corporate design that had two upstairs rooms and large windows. It looks like this remodel tried to mimic that design but did a horrible job. The actual new construction were pretty nice looking ...
- 02 Apr 2015 09:46
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: Possible ex-Kroger
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28684
Re: Possible ex-Kroger
The location is wrong as the small Greenhouse is not in Katy, it is on 1960 and Jones Road. But the replacement time frame would be right, about 1985 for the new store on North Jones Road, which has also since been replaced.
- 29 Mar 2015 20:45
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Kroger Family Centers
- Replies: 126
- Views: 143529
Re: Kroger Family Centers
Just to update the numbering system, it seems like some of the Marketplace stores are using numbers in the 0 to 99 range in the Southwest Division.
- 29 Mar 2015 20:40
- Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawai'i (Excluding California)
- Topic: Possible ex-Kroger
- Replies: 15
- Views: 28684
Re: Possible ex-Kroger
That store may have opened in 1983, that would be about the right time and style for the smaller greenhouse. It was not relocated in 1993 as there were no new stores built in Houston from about 1988 to 1992, and I worked at it's replacement store in the early 90's and it was not a brand new store at ...
- 30 Jan 2015 21:02
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
- Replies: 100
- Views: 130569
Re: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Hi Explorersea; When I started in the mid 80's the division I was in was 100% scanners, and there were no old back up mechanical registers in the store. Just before Y2K the decision was made to bring all divisions to one system (IBM) and scrap all the other systems that were in place. I would ...