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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...

Apparently Hinky-Dinky/Supermarkets Interstate had a couple locations in Louisville in the mid-60s incorporated in a couple of the more esoteric discount stores (Globe/Ontario/Arlans/National Bellas Hess...)...there is some evidence of this within the Hinky-Dinky corporate newsletter archives which ...

Yes, My-T-Fine was their private label. I worked for a market research company in St. Louis who did work for Kraft; don't ask me why I remember but we were doing a survey in Portland/Seattle in about 1981 for Velveeta Singles which were in test market there. Also did one elsewhere in the US for Kraf...

Eureka! Filled in some sketchy memories about JCPenney.

Wards actually shrank their store base in the '50s...their management was convinced of a post-war depression, so hoarded cash. They expanded in suburban clusters in the early 60s around their mail order warehouses, which resulted them missing other metros entirely (they had a couple catalogue stores...

The Grosse Pointe Kroger was entirely renovated a couple years ago (was closed for several weeks) so is completely modern inside...it may or may not be labeled "Fresh Fare" but is certainly to that standard, though in a small footprint. Kroger has a monopoly in that part of town after taki...

You have S. S. Pirece in at least two cells.

Noticed you've got a global mis-spelling...S.S. Pierce is not spelled right.

there's an old-school sporting goods store (mostly team sports, specifically wrestling) in the next suburb that still has their mechanical cash register...they have so little stock except for wrestling gear but it's a fun anachronism.

And to close the loop, here is how they were presented to the Atlanta, GA housewife.

https://dekalbhistory.org/blog-posts/tr ... tury-roof/

I still remember being surprised that between 1987 and 1989 on a trip to Albuquerque that one of the in-town Marina stores (on a north/south street, FWIW) still had the Sweda mechanical cash registers. At that point, I was traveling widely (mystery shopper for KFC so was literally in suburbia from c...

A couple good videos from late-70s Loblaws/No Frills

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/loblaws-ope ... -1.4705878

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-canadi ... -1.5055209