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by Dave
29 Jan 2007 14:44
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: UPC codes & grocery scanning
Replies: 100
Views: 95564

Price Club (pre-Costco) was set up in the same manner as you mentioned, with one clerk reading codes and the other operating a 10-key... I remember certain items that were available at both Price Club and regular supermarkets (large sizes of Tide detergent come to mind) had "Price Club item #X...
by Dave
29 Jan 2007 11:10
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Paper or Plastic?
Replies: 24
Views: 13679

I was sort of surprised to read that the city of San Francsico and the gorcery chains are waging a sort of war as to taking a census of plastic bags and determining recycling rates. It was in Supermarket Nes or Progessive Grocer, I forget which. At any rate, Ukrop's and Kroger (perhaps Food Lion as ...
by Dave
29 Jan 2007 09:01
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Paper or Plastic?
Replies: 24
Views: 13679

I seem to recall some stores trying to go all plastic for reasons of cost, but I don't know any regular supermarket that's all plastic. The Food Lions I've been to lately don't ask for a preference and I don't know if they even have paper bags. Ukrop's gives you a choice and uses paper bags with han...
by Dave
28 Jan 2007 11:22
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Central Virginia
Replies: 12
Views: 15813

...The narrow side walk that's beside the Sanitary sign used to lead back to the African-American business section of town. There was another grocery store back there called The Sunny South Store... Sunny South Stores were based in Richmond; apparently they were affiliated with Allied Grocery Excha...
by Dave
27 Jan 2007 18:13
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Central Virginia
Replies: 12
Views: 15813

You know, there may not be another Sanitary sign left anywhere. I assume that this one survived becuase it faced the railroad tracks. That's an interesting picture because it appears that those are store fronts on each side of Sanitary and that the Sanitary building may have been mdified. But there'...
by Dave
26 Jan 2007 08:00
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Goodbye Eckerd (Rite Aid buys Eckerd and Brooks Drugs)
Replies: 49
Views: 60199

Why is it that CVS is now accepting the JCPenney Card? Per the Wikipedia article on CVS, they continue to accept the JC Penney card at the stores they bought from Eckerd as a convenience for former Eckerd cutomers. I don't believe that they accept the JC Penney card at all of their locations, but I...
by Dave
26 Jan 2007 07:37
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Goodbye Eckerd (Rite Aid buys Eckerd and Brooks Drugs)
Replies: 49
Views: 60199

Re: Rite Aid takes over Eckerd

Why didn't Rite Aid take over the Eckerd stores in Florida but CVS did? Two different deals. When JC Penney orignially sold Eckerd a couple of years ago, part of Eckerd was sold to CVS (Florida, for example), and part to Jean Contu out of Canada. The Jean Contu stores kept the Eckerd name. The Rite...
by Dave
25 Jan 2007 07:47
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: Shopping carts
Replies: 6
Views: 5079

So much for taking shopping carts from the Bi-Lo on Hilton Head Island. http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/6339055p-5524675c.html I don't blame them for wanting to control their carts, but I've never seen anyone looking askance at anyone pushing one of their carts down the street, and I've...
by Dave
19 Jan 2007 07:28
Forum: History: USA Southwest and Hawaii (Excluding California)
Topic: Bashas'
Replies: 27
Views: 31909

I have been to a few Bashas' when I have been in AZ. I felt that one in particular was unique/cool. If I recall...there was a flight of stairs...and a seating area upstairs. There was a cool view of the entire store from this eating area. I wonder if that was originally an in-house diner for the st...
by Dave
13 Jan 2007 09:59
Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
Topic: New Uses for Grocery Stores
Replies: 90
Views: 94086

There were two Giant Open Air locations in Richmond in the 1970's (Giant Open Air was a Norfolk-based chain later acquired by Farm Fresh). Both stores were pretty large (like cloes to 100,000 sf); the one in the West End became the vehicle maintenance garage for Thalhimers department stores and is n...
by Dave
13 Jan 2007 09:50
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: A site dedicated to odd fast food conversions
Replies: 18
Views: 11740

That's an interesting site. I probably have some submissions for them. I was surprised to see converted Sonics. All of the Sonics I'm familiar with are prefab buildings, like the newer KFCs and KFC/whatever combos. When they leave a location, the building can be gathered up and taken away. Sonic did...
by Dave
12 Jan 2007 07:50
Forum: History: USA Southeast
Topic: Food Depot
Replies: 8
Views: 9759

That "Clean, Fresh, & Good" on the ceiling (in faux stained glass, right?) is a leftover from the Big Star days and was also used in the parent Grand Unions.
by Dave
12 Jan 2007 07:43
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Bob's Big Boy former L.A. locations
Replies: 47
Views: 50201

The Shoney's Big Boys in Richmond on West Broad and Belt Boulevard had curb service as did the Lendy's Big Boys. Check out Lendy's "Tele-Trays" on this site. Shoney's used the same setup in Richmond. http://members.cox.net/lendys/lendys5.htm
by Dave
12 Jan 2007 07:38
Forum: History: Department Store Chains
Topic: Best Products
Replies: 42
Views: 32499

I drove by the BEST warehouse in Ashland, VA last Saturday and the porcelain-on-steel BEST sign that covered the south side of the warehouse is gone. Supposedly it was the world's largest sign of its type at one time. However, the old BEST "B" logo still remains on a second floor window in...
by Dave
10 Jan 2007 09:23
Forum: History: Restaurant Chains
Topic: Bob's Big Boy former L.A. locations
Replies: 47
Views: 50201

We have a former Bob's big boy here in Georgia. It closed as a Shoneys almost 10 years ago. http://www.edricfloyd.com/oldschoolretail-shoneys.html Shoney's had the Southeast territory for Big Boy. After they gave up the franchise, Bob's took over the territory. I saw one reference that said this wa...