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- 01 Mar 2006 11:36
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Charlotte History Section of Groceteria
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12746
- 28 Feb 2006 15:21
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Charlotte History Section of Groceteria
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12746
Charlotte History Section of Groceteria
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
http://groceteria.com/charlotte
- 28 Feb 2006 12:45
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Harris Teeter/Big M
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9210
- 27 Feb 2006 15:43
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Food Town to Food Lion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7068
- 25 Feb 2006 21:39
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Store #1
- Replies: 31
- Views: 23324
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 ...
- 25 Feb 2006 21:35
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Food Town to Food Lion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7068
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 ...
- 15 Feb 2006 11:33
- Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
- Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
- Replies: 39
- Views: 27582
Wasn't Rexall a chain that partnered with people (independents) like the IGA grocery stores? I remember the Rexall name as a kid, but there was always other names attached to it. Actually, I believe Walgreens had a similar franchise-type agreement in some markets. I think they acted more as a distr...
- 15 Feb 2006 11:28
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket "spokesmodels?"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15940
- 13 Feb 2006 14:18
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: Supermarket "spokesmodels?"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15940
- 12 Feb 2006 21:02
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Safeway/Alpha Beta relation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7838
Does anyone know the relationship between Skaggs Cash Stores and Skaggs United Stores? In the Sacramento section on this site it mentions Skaggs Cash as the Safeway predecessor, but the ASC version has it as Skaggs United. Were these chains merged together at some point? I'm pretty sure they were j...
- 11 Feb 2006 16:57
- Forum: History: Outside the USA and Canada
- Topic: Safeway Europe and Australia
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23453
Re: Safeway Europe and Australia store brands
From the following link, it looks like the "s" went away for good about 1990 in the UK:marshd1000 wrote:But when did Safeway UK and Australia get rid of the "S"?
http://www.safeway.org.uk/history.php
- 11 Feb 2006 11:28
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Unimart in Los Angeles?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13830
I doubt this is relevant, but the only Uni-Mart I know is a Pennsylvania-based convenience store chain that's pretty inferior to most Mid-Atlantic offerings these days. I doubt there was any connection. Separate chain, alas. Per their website, they started operations about ten years after the movie...
- 10 Feb 2006 22:59
- Forum: History: Miscellaneous and Not Region-Specific
- Topic: First supercenter
- Replies: 30
- Views: 24447
This is from the Price Chopper website - if you check the paragraph with the >>>> it sounds like an early Super Center (and more like the antique shop) - It appears to have been only in that one store, as far as I can see from the site and it doesn't say how long it existed. That wasn't entirely un...
- 10 Feb 2006 21:45
- Forum: History: USA California
- Topic: Big Bear in San Diego
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8331
Big Bear in San Diego
Anyone know about the disposition of the Big Bear chain in San Diego (which was unrealated to the chains of the same name in Seattle, Ohio, and North Carolina)? I'm told that some became warehouse stores and were ultimately branded Food4Less, but was the chain sold as a whole or piecemeal. If it was...
- 10 Feb 2006 21:37
- Forum: History: USA Southeast
- Topic: Harris Teeter/Big M
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9210
From way back when, I remember it being a slice of bread done in red, with More Value (acutally I think Terry is right, it was Mor-Value at one time) written inside of it instead of HT. That's exactly what I'm thinking. I'm remembering the Harris-Teeter name spelled out (in the font used for the lo...