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I wonder, though if that was an earlier KFC/Scott's Chicken Villa (from the building size/shape) and only got the skillet to replace the weathervane.

Good extension of this spreadsheet. By way of background, I lived in Overland Park twice: as a kid from 1964-1967 at 100th/Antioch, then as a young adult from 1989-1992 on 87th/Farley (west of Antioch) A couple of edits; the location on the SW corner of 95th/Antioch was Cherokee United Supers from t...

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An old A&P store in Woodsville, NH right across the river from Wells River, VT. There was a faint label scar on the front. Remaining in Woodsville was a Shaw's, Walmart and a Rite Aid.

Golden Skillet is it. Was centered on Richmond, VA. I was a mystery shopper for KFC in the 1987-1989 timeframe, and periodically went to the Tidewater/Richmond area. There were a couple around Richmond at the time. If memory serves, they used a pressure fryer (similar to KFC Original Recipe or Lees'...

Probably a repurposed picture, as Marlboro isn't quite the killer brand in Canada it is in the US.

I remember poking through the Ala Moana store in the early 2010s during a trip, and being impressed that they sold ukeleles (a rack or two of them--well past the time I'd have thought Chicago had any buyers dealing with stringed instruments). Wonder if the local instrument vendor was one of those co...

I remember that they had HBA in the stores in St. Louis in the late 70s...for some reason I remember they had strange price tags. It seemed like just another leased department, probably the same jobber as did other leased HBA departments in other discount stores.

It is probably more likely that it was Florida, as A&P was having some success with the Family Mart concept down that way. SuperPlus hung on after A&P left Chicago for a few years, as the attached story says. I recall that it was essentially a warehouse market with meat/produce...akin to a F...

Apparently they did do cake decorating at their central bakeries--recently saw a mention that you could order personalized cakes from store locations w/o in-store bakeries.

That's a cool article! Wonder what the last service store in the A&P system was--either the one on Royal in New Orleans or perhaps one somewhere in NYC.

Their first exposure to supermarkets was up in Milwaukee, where they had the Treasury which included supermarkets at some stores. They initially cooperated with Hinky-Dinky out of Omaha which set up Supermarkets Interstate before taking them over. There's some interesting material out there includin...

And a few miles away in Ann Arbor... https://aadl.org/N017_0305_002

Don't know, but there is an apocryphal story about Nordstrom (in Alaska) taking back tires on a return with a smile....they never sold tires...except the store where the return took place FORMERLY sold the tires before Nordstrom. Service with a smile.

Agree--but H-D seemed to go anywhere anyone would have them...everywhere from Wisconsin with Treasure Island/JCPenney; Rio Grande Valley with Globe/Walgreens (I think), Sioux Falls with National Bellas Hess (!); not either like Colonial (concentrated within their SE footprint) or Meadowdale/Abner Wo...