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Got a new scanner today, and YOU reap the benefits. http://www.99w.com/evilsam/gallery/groceteria/swycdrhls.jpg Cedar Hills Safeway, Portland. I took this, oh, probably around 1995. It anchored the Cedar Hills Shopping Center. The look in the image was from an early 1970's remodel. Aside from painti...

Here's a googlemaps shot of one marina, now operating at 4100 University Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50311 HA! You can actually see my house in that image. I walked over there this morning to give you all a better view. Here's what the front of the store looks like today... http://www.99w.com/evilsam/ga...

Doesn't Shasta make quite a few of them as well? I remember seeing Western Family soda having the same style of product codes stamped on the bottom of their cans as Shasta. Shasta's parent, National Beverage (who also owns Faygo), makes some store brands, but calls it a small part of their business...

The Cedar Mill store "expansion" was in fact an almost complete demolition of the original store and new construction. There are a possible one or two walls of the building that are remaining from the original store (those would be at the northwest rear exterior corner of the store, basica...

I was thinking about VIPS a few years ago and discovered the Mexican chain. I was never able to determine if they were related to the former chain in the Pacific Northwest or not (nor if they originated out of the Vip's Boy Boy franchise of New Mexico). A number of the VIPS locations in the Pacific ...

TheStranger wrote:What zip code in the Safeway locator would pull this store up in the results? 80205 isn't doing it...

The store's ZIP code is 80302.

Boulder ZIP codes are all 803xx. 802xx ZIP codes are to the south in Denver.

Here's a night shot of the Safeway at 2798 Arapahoe (SW corner of Arapahoe and 28th) in Boulder, taken in 2003. It is indeed still open and listed on Safeway's website. http://www.99w.com/evilsam/gallery/groceteria/20031229swybldr.jpg It has a modern 90's interior. I'm thinking it's a pretty good be...

We have a few old Safeways similar to this style around town. This particular example is in Ankeny, IA. http://www.99w.com/evilsam/gallery/groceteria/20060402swyank.jpg When I originally came here in 1992, it was Dillow's Supervalu (you can still see the shape of the old Supervalu "S" on t...

Tragically, the interior of that Cheyenne Safeway is modern. But I love that it's still around. Shopped there a number of times, but usually am there in the evening when the sun is in the wrong direction for pics... I DID go into the Pecos store the day after taking the pic. It's a parts bin interio...

In the "Timing is Everything" department, I happened to take this very picture of the Pecos Safeway about two hours ago. http://www.99w.com/evilsam/gallery/groceteria/swypecosdvr.jpg I didn't go in, so I can't report on the interior. On a side note, I was also in the Idaho Springs Safeway ...

Iowa's Fareway still takes groceries out to customer's cars. Carts simply don't leave the inside of the store without a courtesy clerk, who promptly returns the cart inside. Both Hy-Vee and Dahl's have parcel pick-up today, though Hy-Vee also has cart corrals around their lots if customers choose to...

There was Bazaar, which MIGHT have been general merch but I remember as a grocery store. We had one in Beaverton, OR. My grandmother referred to it as "Stinky Bazaar". "We need to go to Safeway, then Ernie's, then Stinky Bazaar." It was Hwy 217 and 110th Ave south of Canyon Rd an...

Dahl's founder WT Dahl passed away Friday. He was 97.

Dahl started his first grocery in 1931, and his first "supermarket", the still-operating Beaverdale location, in 1948.

Dahl's, which Hoovers says was sold to its employees in 1970, operates twelve stores in the Des Moines area.

Michigan seemed to be full of old or unusual 7-Eleven locations when I was there last year. http://www.99w.com/evilsam/gallery/groceteria/7eleventcmi.jpg This is in Traverse City. http://www.99w.com/evilsam/gallery/groceteria/7elevensgmi.jpg This appears to be a converted Shell station in Saginaw. O...

The question that comes to me is if your timeline for the use of "Super Store" in Safeway branding is accurate. I swear the Canyon Rd Safeway (a large footprint Marina) was a called a Super Store (big letters in the windows) before my family moved out in 1976. Aside from that, I can contri...