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GORGEOUS!!!

Thanks

Don't forget J.M. Fields (over 85 stores)

Grand Union had Grand Way Stop & Shop owned Bradlees Big Bear had Harts Meijer had Thrifty Acres (and a small concept called "Meijer Square" for a few years) Red Owl had had their Family Centers Copps had discount department stores under their own name (Simply just called Copps Depart...

Congrats!!!



Wish I was closer!!!

Groceteria wrote: ↑10 Dec 2022 21:40

Steve Landry wrote: ↑10 Dec 2022 11:26Thank you David!!!

It's a beauty! And a SUPER SPEED food department store!

Interesting adjectives for sure

Side note and unrealted: Food Fair was testing scanning registers in the West during the mid to late 1960's with their Fox Markets. I was surprised!

Groceteria wrote: ↑09 Dec 2022 21:38 A Food Fair grand opening ad for Steve Landry:


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Thank you David!!!

13,000 sq ft for BOTH stores??

Food Fair's stamps were called "Merchant's Green Stamps".

Connecticut has a number of distinct submarkets--Hartford and New Haven, for example, are very different places, but the state is relatively affluent and despite very little population growth different parts have attracted new chains over time: For example, Shop-Rite has returned to the Hartford ar...

I did not notice an entry for Payfair.

Please advise as I may be going blind.......................lol.

There is a scene in the early part of the movie "The Irishman" with Robert DeNiro that shows a Food Fair logo on a grocery delivery truck.

He apparently works for the Food Fair warehouse in Philadelphia as a delivery driver to the stores.

Very cool to see!

A Mayfair supermarket exterior in Malibu, Calif. (Heathercliff Rd.) appeared in the background of a shot in a season 3 episode of "CHiPs" titled "Valley Go Home!" It first aired in September of 1979. The shot can be seen in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSg2TVFI3Qw...

Since I'm a librarian who digitizes things for a living and a big supporter of the Internet Archive, I'm not sure how I missed this: https://archive.org/details/annual-reports-archive?tab=collection It's surprisingly complete through the 1980s, and on a quick glance I've found Safeway, A&P, Luc...

Even though they operated in Peoria for only an eyeblink of time, Eisner/Jewel left behind a sizable architectural legacy here. An ex-Jewel at 4103 SW Adams St survives ; though if it once had porcelain enamel cladding, it's now gone. A renovated Jewel at 4425 N Prospect Rd still sells groceries as...

Wow.....................it sure looks like a Safeway.

:-)