Big Lots at McLeod and Sahara Former Kmart Foods?

lvkewlkid · 14 Jan 2007 02:08

At McLeod and Sahara in Las Vegas, there is a Kmart/Big Lots Shopping Center that was built a very long time ago. I dont think there was always a Big Lots next to the Kmart, was it a Kmart Foods or some other grocery store?

mgrmk · 14 Jan 2007 15:22

I believe that Big Lots location was a large Checker Auto Parts which moved into a free standing building in the parking lot in the mid 90's. The spot Checker AP moved to was Leatherby's Ice Cream Parlor which moved further west on Sahara near the strip in an old Sizzler location.

Roadsidepictures · 13 May 2007 23:46

Wasn't there a Pic n Save next to that Kmart? There was a Furrs Cafeteria in the parking lot.

mgrmk · 28 May 2007 16:18

Yes, the Pic & Save is now Big Lots and the Furr's Cafeteria sits empty, Kmart uses it to hang sale banners. Incedently, this Kmart just received the new red kmart signage and removed the Big K signs.

LVbearAM · 27 Jun 2007 20:58

If my memory serves me correctly (and you may correct me if I'm wrong), the store next door to the K-Mart on East Sahara--now a Big Lots--was once a Pantry Pride supermarket. The store may have closed down sometime in the 1970's, but I can't remember the year.

Steve Landry · 27 Jun 2007 21:19

Hmmmmmmmmmmm........... maybe. Food Fair sold all of it's California and Nevada stores around that time. Slight possiblitiy that BEFORE that happened they MAY have converted a former Fox Market or Food Fair or Food Fair/Fox to a Pantry Pride as a last ditch effort.

I DO know there were many internal battles about closing their western division. And I do know that the Pantry Pride concept in the east was FLYING. So hence the possibility of a lone Pantry Pride experiment out west.

It would be cool to confirm or deny that possiblity.

lvkewlkid · 27 Jun 2007 21:32

Does anyone have a list of former Pantry Pride/Food Fair locations in Southern NV?

Steve Landry · 28 Jun 2007 07:09

One would have to have the resources to do that.......and the time and interest ;)

I wish I had the time (working 60 or more hours a week) :(
(because i def have the interest).

Best way would be to look under Fox Markets. Then research under Food Fair.........Food Fair/Fox and finally Pantry Pride.

Roadsidepictures · 18 Jul 2007 04:31

I've seen a picture taken in the early 1960's of the Food Fair that was next to the White Cross Drug Store at 1711 South Main Street. It was also a Mayfair, Smith's and most recently, Meyer's Market. It's been closed for several years, but the department names are still on the wall.

rnaikens · 10 Nov 2008 01:22

The store next to Kmart on East Sahara was built by Food Fair as a Pantry Pride. Later became a Smith's and then Pic N Sav.