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I appreciate what you are doing to keep the site alive. So many similar sites have migrated over to Facebook-only types, and the originals get left abandoned. Not everybody uses Facebook, and a lot of people are getting burned out by it, which is why it's important to maintain things when the social...

Albertsons had a store at Five Mile and Lake Hazel in Boise until the mid-1980s, when Albertsons closed the location as they took over most of the remaining Boise Buttrey stores. Two were located along Five Mile..one intersected with Overland, and the other intersected with Ustick. Albertsons also c...

I stumbled across these photos today. They appear to be of an early design for scanners installed at a Kroger in 1972-1973. Evidently the 'bulls-eye" sticker could be scanned at the register. http://idhistory.com/rca/Kroger%20Kenwood%20Supermarket%20-%20%201972-73%20photos.pdf Also an image he...

I kind of consider it "cheating" if the store moved once. With that caveat, I'm sure I can find a few Acmes with lineages that trace back to that time or earlier. The longest long-running grocery store I can think of today is Albertsons #101, which expanded dramatically since its first in...

I kind of consider it "cheating" if the store moved once. With that caveat, I'm sure I can find a few Acmes with lineages that trace back to that time or earlier. The longest long-running grocery store I can think of today is Albertsons #101, which expanded dramatically since its first in...

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Great article that has a lot of good pictures, mostly of independent grocers, but there are a few of Piggly Wiggly as well as one of a Fred Meyer that was built around a house.

I believe that would be something different. The R in Toys 'R' Us is specifically styled backwards and with quotes. Any store using like that would indeed be subject to a lawsuit. Use of a star has been pretty generic; had it not been, WMT and Macy's would have been after each other for years, as b...

For what it's worth, there are a number of stores that have not been converted to supercenters in my area. Most have simply received an outside repaint and new signage. However, about a year ago, I drove through the town of St. Helens, Oregon, and noticed that the Walmart there still had the old sig...

We had one on Navarre Ave. in Oregon, Ohio. The building is gone, but the circular concrete pad remains in the parking lot of the vacant Foodtown Grocery store. My question is... there is a circle building of the same size that is now painted white at the corner of Monroe St. and Douglas in Toledo,...

I remember seeing a McDonald's in at least one Fred Meyer store. I want to say it was the one in Gresham, Oregon, but am not 100% sure. Fred Meyer experimented with a few restaurants in the Portland market, there was at least one other (Walker Road?) that had a Burger King. Restaurants are rare insi...

I had another chance to look at that satellite view tonight. An interesting note is that, further southwest on CY Ave. there is a former Kmart/Buttrey shopping center, where the parking lot connects to a fairly new looking Walmart. The Kmart is now Sutherlands Lumber, but I can't tell what is in the...

I briefly lived in Casper in the very early 80s, and have been to that Safeway. It's fairly old, and if memory serves correctly is a Marina store. Makes me wonder if they re-used the old sign during a remodel, because that sure looks like the older font widely used before they went to the squared lo...

The Albertsons Market signage and décor was unique to Albertsons LLC prior to the buyback of New Albertsons (of which the AlbertsonsMarket.com name was retired until being revived for United Family owned Albertsons stores), but any Idaho stores would've been New Albertsons, which was part of SVU fr...

Quick background: we should know that Albertsons Inc. broke into two companies in 2006, one "Albertsons LLC" (owned by Cerberus under "AB Acquisitions LLC" and "New Albertsons Inc." (owned by SuperValu, had what were considered to be the stronger divisions). At some po...

I found an article from 2-1-86 that says Emporium Inc has bought the 8 unit chain of Quisenberry's. Stores were Boise(2) and Mountain Home, Idaho and Pendleton, La Grande, John Day, Ontario, and Vale, Oregon. The Vale store served as headquarters and distribution center for the company. Interesting...