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Thanks for posting that Bazar ad. I noticed that I forgot a location here in the Seattle area. There was also one in Renton that became a PayLess. That was until they bought out Pay 'n Save and moved into their smaller Renton location. The Renton Bazar site was demolished and turned into a Wal-Mart.

In the Seattle are I remember Bazzar Foods as part of a larger operation called, "Gov-Mart Bazzar". These were originally membership stores from what I heard and may have even had membership limited to government employees. But don't quote me on that. Eventually the Gov-Mart general mercha...

Oops! I forgot the mention that sometime after the Bellevue store was built, Larry's built a store in a mixed use development on Seattle's Lower Queen Anne Hill.

About a month or two ago, I have posted about Larry's Markets going into bankruptucy. But I have never went into the parts of it's history that I know about. But if anyone can fill in any facts, I would appreciate it. I know that in some of it's ads, they mention that they have been around since 194...

I believe that Food Barn was a Safeway attmept at a warehouse type store. In Bellingham, WA where I lived in the early 1980's, we had a fairly new Safeway Superstore that was converted into a Super Food Barn. And while the graphics on the inside of the store were changed some, the clerks still wore ...

I believe that the new 76 logo is not a dark orange but actually a red color. I believe that this is the color of Conoco and Phillips. I believe that this happened after the merger with Conoco. Here is some recent history about 76. Prior to acquisition by Phillips, 76 had been owned by a company cal...

I believe that I have read that when it came to Smith's in Kalispell, that it is actually a new building. However that site was originally a small full-line Fred Meyer. I had read that they had converted that into a Smith's and got rid of the clothes, etc. But then they later closed that building an...

One thing should be noted that in the conversion of the Utah Fred Meyer stores to Smith's Marketplace, the basic full Fred Meyer concept was kept. The former Utah Fred Meyer stores still have clothing and all of the other departments. Also it should be noted that there were also some Fred Meyer oper...

While there are some things that I can't always recall, I do recall that Rhodes in Tacoma was owned by Amfac. I also remember visiting relatives in Dallas where they had Joske's. I remember Joske's was part of Allied Stores which later merged with Federated. The former Allied store here in the NW wa...

First of all, I would like to thank Tkaye for correcting me about WT Grant at Villa Plaza. While I do remember seeing WT Grant there, by the time it closed, my folks had moved me to Seattle. So I was not in the immediate Tacoma area when Grant closed. I had thought that it was part of the Lakewood M...

That is interesting to hear about Pay n' Save in Arizona. In a round about way, it looks like they were related to Pay n' Save Drugs since both at different times were related to Shuck's Auto Supply. Just a side note, at one time, Yellow Front was here in Washington State. I don't know much about Ye...

I do remember that here in the greater Seattle area seeing one WT Grant store, though I had never been in one. At Villa Plaza Shopping Center in Lakewood, WA (outside of Tacoma), there was a WT Grant store. I do remember that for at least 10 years or more, this store was vacant. Villa Plaza was a sh...

I do remember that here in the greater Seattle area seeing one WT Grant store, though I had never been in one. At Villa Plaza Shopping Center in Lakewood, WA (outside of Tacoma), there was a WT Grant store. I do remember that for at least 10 years or more, this store was vacant. Villa Plaza was a sh...

I am also thinking that in British Columbia, Jim Pattison also owns Overwaitea Foods, Urban Fare, Coopers among others.

To answer a earlier question about the "Marina" style Bellevue Safeway, yes, the Bartell Drugs is still in the north side of the building.