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Until at least the mid 1980s, there were two Great American grocery stores in Elmira, NY. One was on Lake St., the other on Erie St. (I think) on Elmira's southside. This store, located next to a closed store called Elmira Discount, was demolished some time ago. The southside store was small and ki...

I did some homework and found this info on the seven former ShopRites in the Albany area that Victory Markets Inc. bought back in 1988. The stores were... 1235 Western Avenue Guilderland,NY 20 Wolf Road Colonie,NY Routes 9 and 20 East Greenbush,NY Mayfair Shopping Center Glenville,NY Broadway Menand...

TW-Upstate NY wrote:I went to college in the Utica area in the early-mid '80's and remember locations in Ilion (open as late as 1999) and Whitesboro.

Ilion,NY and Whitesboro,NY make it 54 and counting. Thank you.

Excellent info coming in. I want to add Cortland,NY, Corning,NY, Johnson City,NY, Binghamton,NY, and Colonie,NY (Albany area). With Endicott confirmed by maynesG, that should put us at 52 locations. I can't figure out Vestal,NY.

Can anyone confirm Vestal, NY and Endicott, NY stores??

Thanks for the help everyone. Add to the list Ellenville,NY, Margaretville,NY, Roscoe,NY, Hancock,NY.

Should be 46 now...

I have some other locations I have found. They include Greene,NY, Boonville,NY, Afton,NY, Delhi,NY, Sherburne,NY, Tully,NY, Lyons Falls,NY, Watertown,NY, Oxford,NY and Prattsville,NY. I believe this brings us to 38 locations.

I found this link while browsing the net that show a few more Great American Stores...

http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/ssr/PD ... ores05.pdf

Ephrata1966 wrote:What were the closest ones to NYC?

I would say New Paltz, NY.

-Fonda, NY, -Gloversville, NY, -Amsterdam, NY, -Richfield Springs, NY, -Herkimer, NY, -Little Falls, NY, Canajoharie, NY, -Glenville, NY, -Oneonta, NY, -East Stroudsburg, Pa. which to my knowledge was the company's ONLY foray outside NY State. I think, but I'm not sure, that the stores they had in ...

Hi, I great article ran in The Daily Star here is the new link to this column thedaily star.com/columsx112896525/onetimegrocery. It tells the tale of this chain from its founding in 1908 in Norwich Ny as Victory Markets to its Hay day as Great American Stores with 80 Units. Today a handfull of Grea...

A&P Red Hook, NY closed in the 1994.

maynesG wrote:Hi, Yes the lyods in Warwick was verry small as compared to the other two units. The town also had a small downtown Grand Union. Is the Shop Rite in town built on the location of the Lyods?

Former Grand Union is now a CVS. And yes, Shop Rite is on the former Lloyd's site.

Transit Road wrote:Yes, I remember Lloyd's, in Middletown and Newburgh, NY. Ed Lloyd tried to be everything to everyone, but other larger chains had better resources and could pull it off better.

Straying off topic, but there was also a Lloyd's in Warwick,NY.

There was a Value City store in Newburgh, NY on North Plank Road (RT32) back in the 1980's. Is this the same department store chain? It is now a half Rite-Aid and half, I think, a Dollar General?