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verywell wrote:So it was Bi-Lo in the 1970s and not Kroger?

Could you expand that question just a little?

FYI, there's a Taco Charley commercial available for viewing here: http://www.ncvideo.com/ncvideo_commercial.htm And if their buildings are the ones I'm thinking of, then this thread has answered a long-standing question of mine, namely what all those Taco Bell locations in California that look like...

danielh_512 wrote:Tons of great information about Charlotte David. Good to learn so much I didn't know about a city I have some familiarity with (living near there in the late 80's).

Thanks. BTW, I posted the 1970s tonight. More later this week.

I looked at the Dutch Square picture before I posted but for some reason didn't want to equate the Beaufont store with the Dutch Square store. I haven't been to Dutch Square in a while and in my mind I think the two are different, but I could well be wrong. There are differences within the format, ...

It was a pretty common prototype for A&P in the 1970s. We discussed similar stores in this thread a while back:

http://www.groceteria.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=52

I know you haven't done the 70's yet but did you know that the K-Mart Grocery on Independence Blvd. was a Piggly Wiggly at one point in time before it finally ended up as a Food Lion before it turned to other uses such as a clothing store among other things? Also, the Harris Teeters in Sedgefield a...

So there is a Delhaize connection after all? Yup. I was just reading about this over the weekend. Delhaize purchased Food Giant a few years after purchasing Food Lion. Food Lion management was a little peeved, because they had Atlanta expansion plans which Delhaize had effectively halted by buying ...

What a great article! Thanks.

King Cole Market (Southern California) spotted in the 1967 movie "Divorce American Style" with Dick Van Dyke.

Thanks. It's amazing what one can accomplish given a lengthy period of underemployment...

Hi all. Just wanted to let those of you who don't visit the front page regularly know that I've finally posted the first half of my very intensively researched Charlotte section, in case you're interested:

http://groceteria.com/charlotte

Just what I was looking for. Thanks!

Delhaize ownership came after the "lion". Actually, Delhaize purchased a 34% interest in Food Town in 1974 and acquired a majority interest in 1976. The name change didn't happen until 1982-1983. In fact, the lion icon had been used in the Food Town house brand logo (and even on some stor...

Is the store you're referring to in the picture accompanying this article? Different store. The one in the article was a Ketner's store, which was a separate chain started by the same family. The entire Ketner's chain was sold to Winn-Dixie, and Food Town/Food Lion was started a few years later. I ...

The way I've always heard it told was that Food Lion was entering new markets with new competition, and had to find a new operating name in their new territory, much like Martin's and Giant-PA are. They came up w/Food Lion somehow, it resonated well, and they all got converted to Food Lion. That's ...