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I was in both of those Pacific Beach Stores. There was a drug store in the "original Vons" center which was branded Thrifty, but felt nothing like a Thrifty. I often wondered if that drugstore started life as a CVS. From my observation it seems the original Vons was doing a much better bu...

Smith's Food King acquired the vast majority of those former Market Basket stores (ladened with talking cash registers), but lasted only about two years. They failed, closed the stores and sold them off piece by piece. This is incorrect, although Smiths did acquire some stores. The break up occurre...

Market Basket was undergoing a chain-wide rennovation when the State of California brought them up on anti-trust violations and declared them a monopoly. Market Basket / Korger was forced to sell-out of California circa 1982. That is absolutely not true. Kroger sold Market Basket because with only ...

Does anyone remember FedMart Junior? I remember one in San Diego's Hillcrest nieghborhood. It was the size of a large supermarket and much smaller than a regular FedMart.

Pavilions on 8969 Santa Monica Blvd was ALSO a Safeway. Dunno the details of when it became a Pavilions but i do know it was a Safeway then a VONS then a Pavilions...so i dunno if it was aquired in 1986 or not. The store at 8969 Santa Monica Blvd. was never a Vons. I was working there when Vons acq...

I didn't realize they were ever in the U.S. They're huge in Mexico and owned by WalMart.

Hopefully this is the correct forum to add this to... But I was wondering why so many people have an interest in this subject. For me it's was because I spent the first 15 years of my life in the grocery industry. What I want to know is how many of you were or are in the industry and what your exper...

That sign brings back memories of a couple of old fedmarts in San Diego as well.

Does anyone remember FedMart having an sterisk in their logo towards the end? I think it was written FedMart* but I could be wrong.

Great Photos.

I love this one in particular:

They just don't make signs like that anymore. Classic!

The Santa Barbara A&P featured on page 2 of the A&P photo section of this site is at 3305 State st., in the Loreto Plaza shopping center at the corner of State and San Rogue Rd. It was later an Albertson's, and is currently a Gelson's market. When I visited in September 2003, the exterior (...

i like this topic...its like this store is a "mystery" store....i cant wait to see what store it officially turns out to be.....has anyone thought of emailing washington mutual....? There is no mystery. I am 100% certain it's a Mayfair (unless you're referring to exactly which former-Mayf...

FedMart was started by Sol Price (also founder of the Price Club - now Costco) in 1954. The original concept was very close to FedCo's (geared towards Federal employees) but was later opened to everyone else. He sold out to a German company to raise capital for expansion but they didn't get along an...

I only remember the one in the Sunny Hills area of Fullerton (NW corner of Harbor and Bastanchury, now a Longs Drugs). It seemed slightly upscale. But I remember full page ads in the paper, so they must have had more locations. Any others? Anyone else remember this one? They had 10 or 11 stores at ...

The building Office Depot is in now was originally built and operated by Safeway as a Liquor Barn.

The old Hollywood Ranch Market was on the same lot but not in the same bulding as the current Office Depot.

Now... how about those dark canvas awnings over produce departments? When I think of that era, I also think of those hideous things. What was the purpose of them -- would a dark department make it easier to pass off inferior product? I think this was mostly a Safeway format. They wanted to isolate ...