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APCO25
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I have searched all over this site and the web to find any info on Food Depot. They seem to pop up in Atlanta area Winn-Dixie's that close down. They are a no-frills operation, name brands and a lot of private label. The first one to show up was around 2003/04 in Smyrna at Concord Crossing Shopping Center, into the long vacant A&P Foodmarket. The old A&P still has the "Clean Fresh and Good" on the ceiling, and still has the red interior, looks like it hasn't changed since Food Depot moved in, Will try to get some pics of this last generation A&P, it's very well preserved.

But curious as to who Food Depot is? Any ties to the former Winn Dixie ala Save Rite?
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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.
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All I could tell is that FOOD DEPOT has been around for a long time. They have stores as far south as Ft. Valley in Central Georgia. The have also been in Griffin Georgia for a very long time. I don't think they have any ties to other companies.


Griffin Flea Market- Former Food Depot on GA Hwy 16 east of Downtown Griffin Georgia
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4858.jpg
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4872.jpg

The FOOD DEPOT store in Griffin was located on GA Hwy 16 east of downtown Griffin but is now in a former CUB FOODS just west of the downtown area of Griffin.


The current Food Depot store in Griffin actually modified the old Cub foods sign and also includes the latter's slogan.

Current Food Depot in Griffin Georgia-Former Cub Foods, divided with Dollar General
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4853.jpg
Food Depot street sign simular to old Cub Foods sinage
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4855.jpg

There is a Food Depot in Fairburn GA (South Fulton County) that is definitely a former Winn-Dixie. I have a photo of it and will post it later.

I also have a photo of the one in Ft. Valley, which is in a neighboring county. I will find that photo and post it or get a new one soon.
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Post by terryinokc »

Haven't been by there in a year or so, but there was a Food Depot in Anniston, AL next to KMart in a former KMart Foods location.

It has been there many years......seems like it was supplied by Supervalu.
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IIRC, the Griffin Food Depot/Cub Foods is the original Kmart location on West Taylor St, with an odd pairing with Winn-Dixie which relocated next Wal-Mrt in the mid-80's. Kmart relocated in the late-80's or early90's, in the same center with Kroger and JCPenney on North Expressway,only to be a casualty of the 2004 bankruptcy. There are lots of old strip centers in Griffin on GA 16 and on the North Expressway, relics of the 60's and 70's, and a microcosm of Georgia retail of the era. A large late 70's ex-Kroger superstore and the former JCPenney sits nearby on West Taylor. A former Sambo's near downtown is a Chick-fil-A Dwarf House, and south of downtown is the last Big Star, closing around 1986 or so.

Griffin was the first Big Star in Georgia when the banner first appeared in place of Rogers. Not sure where it was in Griffin other than downtown. Kroger was on Hill Street, north downtown, the original US 41 route through Griffin and A&P was somewhere nearby.
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krogerclerk wrote:IIRC, the Griffin Food Depot/Cub Foods is the original Kmart location on West Taylor St, with an odd pairing with Winn-Dixie which relocated next Wal-Mrt in the mid-80's. Kmart relocated in the late-80's or early90's, in the same center with Kroger and JCPenney on North Expressway,only to be a casualty of the 2004 bankruptcy. There are lots of old strip centers in Griffin on GA 16 and on the North Expressway, relics of the 60's and 70's, and a microcosm of Georgia retail of the era. A large late 70's ex-Kroger superstore and the former JCPenney sits nearby on West Taylor. A former Sambo's near downtown is a Chick-fil-A Dwarf House, and south of downtown is the last Big Star, closing around 1986 or so.

Griffin was the first Big Star in Georgia when the banner first appeared in place of Rogers. Not sure where it was in Griffin other than downtown. Kroger was on Hill Street, north downtown, the original US 41 route through Griffin and A&P was somewhere nearby.

The Cub foods/Food Depot in the photo I posted is farily new construction. It doesn't look like it was anything other than an original Cub Foods. It is newer construction than anything else within several blocks.

The old 1970's era Winn-Dixie is further west (and definitely looks like an old WD in a shopping center. That is a thrift store now.

I do have a photo of the later Winn Dixie that was pared with Wal-Mart
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4851.jpg

Now I had been wondering if an old discount store EAST of downtown where the Griffin Flea market in the photo I posted earlier is on the opposite side of the parking lot

Is this the former K-Mart in Griffin.
Building used for storage of cardboard
Here are some photos of the discount store including close ups of the entrance

Front of discount store
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4857.jpg

Front of former Food Depot, now Griffin Flea Market..sign covers faded lettering of Food Depot
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4859.jpg

Discount store across parking lot
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4860.jpg

Entrance to discount store
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4864.jpg
http://www.edricfloyd.com/dscn4867.jpg

The former Sambo's(now Chick Fil-A is a couple blocks from the current Food Depot.

I have to search deep for the photos I took in the past year (but never posted) of the later Winn-Dixie/Walmart center and the adjacent supermarket that was most recently a Save-A-Lot and is now a fitness center. It looks like it could have been either a Kroger or an A&P from the 1970's.

I have not had time to research the Griffin area. But I hope to do so in the near future.

The old Big Star was an ACE Hardware store until early this year.

Here are the photos of the old Big Star/Colonial on College Street in Downtown Griffin
Front
http://www.edricfloyd.com/DSCN3248.JPG

Side
http://www.edricfloyd.com/DSCN3249.JPG

Front closer up
http://www.edricfloyd.com/DSCN3250.JPG

Loading dock on side of building
http://www.edricfloyd.com/DSCN3251.JPG

Rear of building from doctor's office parking lot on next street
http://www.edricfloyd.com/DSCN3252.JPG

The JC Penney on North Expressway closed in recent months. Now the only anchor in that shopping center to remain is the Kroger, with K-Mart and JC Penney now vacant, and add to that the Wachovia bank branch that was next door.(found that out when I was looking for an ATM)

However with all that recently closed in Griffin, the WAL-MART supercenter and shopping center within is thriving.
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The address for Food Depot is 1201 West Taylor, the previous Kroger was 1221 West Taylor, so evidently they used the location of the old JCPenney or more correctly leveled the Kroger and JCPenney. This was I believe the last new construct for Cub Foods, other locations were former Bruno's/FoodMax locations that were added after this. So the KMart was further west, toward the US 41 Bypass/GA 16 interchange, it was definitely in West Griffin. I've seen the store on 16 East and it was vacant over 10 years ago and I always suspected it was a WT Grant or Grant City. Rose's can be ruled out as it was south of the Big Star on old 19/41 with the Piggly Wiggly, relocated to a Bruno's. Woolco is a slim possibility as they had very few Georgia stores and were mainly in the close-in metro Atlanta suburbs, and Zayre was limited to the same markets and Macon and Columbus.
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Post by APCO25 »

Edric Floyd, way to go on those Food Depot pics, I can't get enough of the old Cub Foods makeover, they have to do much to the sign. If it's like the plethora of Food Depot's in Cobb county, they probably haven't done much to the interior either.
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Two bits of information to answer some questions still remaining on this topic:
1] according to the owner of Crook's Marketplace in Senoia, Georgia, Food Depot is "just a new name for those 'Quality Foods' stores." Quality Foods had a store in downtown Newnan until three years ago when it was torn down. The store moved three miles north of Newnan into a closed Ingle's location and immediately changed the name to Food Depot.
2] The discount store located on Georgia Highway 16 East in Griffin was a Cook's Discount Store, which was a chain that operated out of Ohio, I believe, but had several outposts in the southeast, among them Savannah, Georgia [2 locations that were open until Wal-Mart took over the buildings], and Merritt Island, Florida. The Merritt Island store became a K-Mart in the 1980's.
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