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by tesg
29 Jan 2006 16:18
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Store #1
Replies: 31
Views: 23354

We have a local chain called Dahl's whose number 1 and number 2 "supermarket" format stores are still in operation. The first is in the Beaverdale neighborhood. It opened in 1948. The second is on Ingersoll. It opened in 1952. Both have remodeled over the years and are modern stores. Dahl'...
by tesg
24 Jan 2006 23:01
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Safeway logos
Replies: 8
Views: 7387

What is the name for the new logo? From the pictures I've seen, I really like it. I haven't seen it on a store yet in Safeway's Mid-Atlantic division. I don't know if Safeway has an internal designation for it, but when I first saw it, I thought it kind of looked like a cherry Sucrets lozenge. So I...
by tesg
17 Jan 2006 23:23
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Phar-Mor
Replies: 25
Views: 33542

I also know they had at least two or three stores in Las Vegas, and also at least one in Utah. Ogden, Utah, specifically. For about six months in 2002. I happened upon the "Store Closing" sale completely by accident and wondered why I didn't even remember the store being there the last ti...
by tesg
07 Jan 2006 00:01
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Sources of info for old locations?
Replies: 4
Views: 4663

This, by the way, is all the better reason to save location directories for current chains as well. It'll help you, and others, years from now when you're looking back at today.

Which reminds me...I'm due to find an updated copy of that spreadsheet Safeway maintains of their stores...
by tesg
03 Jan 2006 00:02
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: New Uses for Grocery Stores
Replies: 90
Views: 94023

I know of another city library...The Beaverton (Oregon) City Library was housed in an old Albertson's building for years until they built the new library in, oh, 2000 or so. The exterior was largely left intact, though the interior was divided into several rooms and offices and was completely unreco...
by tesg
29 Dec 2005 23:56
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Old Target Interiors
Replies: 32
Views: 26557

Target stores historically used red interiors. Very very red. Signage, depending on the era, would be red with white text, or white with black text. In the late eighties and through the nineties, Target used a grey interior with waves of colored neon through different departments. This was also used...
by tesg
11 Dec 2005 19:37
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: First supercenter
Replies: 30
Views: 24450

Sam Walton gave credit to Fred Meyer for being a pioneer of the format known as the Supercenter today in his book. Of course, the early Wal-Mart prototypes were called "Hypermarts". Fred Meyer's modern "Supercenter" format is an evolution of the way they've done business over the...
by tesg
09 Dec 2005 23:33
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Weirdest combination of grocery store and other business?
Replies: 20
Views: 17964

Re: Kroger/Frys Marketplace

The Smiths Marketplace Stores in Utah also do not have the Fred Meyer Jewelery operation within their stores, even though these were former Fred Meyer Stores. They did not have the department when they were Fred Meyer, either. Kind of odd. Uh, yes they do, and they always have. I was in the Smith's...
by tesg
21 Nov 2005 23:36
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Weirdest combination of grocery store and other business?
Replies: 20
Views: 17964

Re: Ream's

I visited a Ream's Store in Taylorsville, Utah a few years back. The store was pretty run down and I walked through it starting at the end with produce and going forward to the opposite end of the store. On the opposite end of the store, aside from the expected bakery and deli, was a large western ...
by tesg
09 Nov 2005 09:29
Forum: History: USA Northwest/Rockies/Alaska
Topic: Grocery Stores in the Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA Area
Replies: 5
Views: 7320

70 stores? I don't know about that. MAYBE if you counted every Fred Meyer Jeweler and every other little offshoot as a store... The dominant brands in the seventies through nineties were: Safeway Thriftway (which is what most of the "Independents" really were) Albertsons Fred Meyer Kienows...