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It seems like I remember something called American Fare (or Fair ...along those lines) in the early 80's. It was a large super store which was rumored to be a K-mart experiment. I think I remember one on Stone Mountain Expressway outside Atlanta. Any ideas?? Kmart's first few "hypermarkets', o...

A picture would help a whole lot...

Wasn't there also a More-Value discount store chain connected to H-T? You see, that name rings a bell for me too and is something I remember from the commercials where the two names were reunited. In fact, I think I remember the "more value" being part of the Harris Teeter logo. I'm wonde...

HT's #1 store still stands/operates on Central Ave in Charlotte. Actually, the very FIRST Harris store was two blocks west of the current store. It was a mid-block former A&P that became a Harris store in 1936. W.T. Harris had previously been an A&P store manager, although I'm not sure if t...

Interesting thing I discovered while researching my upcoming section on Charlotte NC. For a few months in 1976, most of the Kmart Foods locations in Charlotte were rebranded as Wrigley stores, with new signs and everything. This was done by Allied Supermarkets, apparently to distingush the ownership...

In 1970, Harris Teeter stores in Charlotte NC rebranded many of its units as Big M stores. This was a discount brand, an answer to Colonial's Big Star stores and A&P's A-Marts. Does anyone have a date on when these stores were reunited with the rest of the chain? I know it was sometime between 1...

Richmond is a confusing place when it comes to studying what became what. It always seems to be one of those "except" places (like Food Lion buying Hannaford, except in Richmond, which went to Kroger, or Big Star/Grand Union selling Virginia stores to Food Lion/Harris Teeter, except in Ri...

Interesting. Bruno's also operated a Food World chain in the deep south; I think it still exists as part of the new Brunos-BiLo entity. AND there was a separate Food World chain in North Carolina and Virginia which sold out to Harris-Teeter in 1984. This chain was based in the town next door to my h...

I split off the emerging Hannaford/Charlotte discussion into a new topic which is now in "Specific Chains", but fprgpt to leave a shadow link. Sorry...

verywell wrote:I vividly remember KCafe, i think some Kmarts still sport them.

That's a whole different animal from the original cafeteria grills of the 1960s, alas...

verywell wrote:Was there ever a Park and Shop on South Boulevard?

Based on an old newspaper article, I think there was one where the Home Depot near Woodlawn sits today, but it wasn't listed in the city directories.

....the 2nd pic is what i was refering to! becuz i see some of the safeway stores up north have the same designs as the vons stores in so cal....was jus curious if this happened after the merger Yeah. That was a Safeway design dating from 1993-1994. Like I said, the Vons stores mostly got it as a r...

Lenny wrote:All of these stores are featured on the Weis Project.

The Weis Project:
http://www.weisproject.com/

I am not sure if Safeway is in UK still and havent seen them in other European countries. As mentioned above, Safeway UK has been merged into Morrisons. And as mentioned on the very site this message board is a part of , "Safeway expanded worldwide in the 1960s, with divisions established in t...

someone has to know something!! . Could you be a little more specific about the design elements you mean? The Vons prototype of the 1990s was the one with the red stripe and the script departmental signage: http://groceteria.com/forboard/vons.jpg Safeway in the 1990s started doing the yellow walls ...