www.groceteria.com

[oxydolfan1]

Not Linden at the corner of Lefferts?

 

[whirlcool]

That site seems to be a little but Safeway oriented.

Who remembers National food stores in the Chicago and New Orleans area? They went out of buiness in the 70's if I am not mistaken.

Now for the rant.....
Safeway, what a terrible store! We had them here in Houston for awhile and even though the stores were quite large, they offered a limited selection at convenience store prices. Eventually their stores were like ghost towns..
Then Safeway got the idea to sell off the Safeway stores to the employees and name them "Apple Tree" stores. They shut down quite a few, but there really was no change in the way they operated from the Safeway days and eventually they shut down all the stores and that enterprise collapsed.
Then a few years ago Safeway bought out Randall's, a very nice semi upscale grocery chain here in Houston and Dallas. Sure to how they operate, they stipped out Randall's wide selection and installed a lot of Safeway house brand stuff and jacked up their prices sky high. Now you go in to a Randall's and it's a ghost town. I imagine they will shut down in a very few more years. They have already closed down about 40% of the original Randall's stores. Last night after church we went into the once very upscale flagship store on Voss around 7pm and we were the only people in the store except for the few employees hanging around.
And let's not forget what Safeway did to Dominick's in Chicago. Pretty much the same thing.
Personally, I don't think Safeway knows anything about the grocery business. You'd think that they would have learned their lesson about failing stores and decreasing profits after they take over a chain. But some people and corporations never learn.

 

[alr2903]

jaon L. LoL schweggmann's

Jason you gotta admit it took a special something for a grocery to have a snack bar where one, stood up to eat, sold appliances on credit, shoe repair, a barber shop, and a cocktail lounge in the front, where the driver could knock down a few draft beers while the Lady did the shopping. Lawd, Lawd the 60's and 70's.

 

[unimac104]

A&P stores

i remember these stores very well as i was store manager for them when i lived in nj. that was before i moved to florida to buy a dry cleaning business.

 

[exploder3211]

I thought safeway in denver was kinda high but not too bad. not as bad as Albertsons. BTW_King Soopers was cheap

 

[exploder3211]

Oops Posted in Wrong Thread!

Post# 192140-2/18/2007-20:04 ||| whirlcool (Usuallly outside of Houston, but spend a lot of time in my office at 34,000ft with a view that goes on for miles!)

And when I was in college, I used to shop at the Schweggmans on Chef Menteur and Downman Road. That was in the very early 70's. I can't believe Schweggmans is all gone. The parking lot at the store I mentioned above was like the Daytona 500! You had to keep your eyes open or you'd get run down!

 

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National Food Stores

We had them as well but the last one shut down 6 years ago

Skip...

 

[whirlcool]

Oops Posted in Wrong Thread!

De Exploder... WTF?

We WERE talking about defunct grocery chains in this thread, weren't we?

Post# 192140-2/18/2007-20:04 ||| whirlcool (Usuallly outside of Houston, but spend a lot of time in my office at 34,000ft with a view that goes on for miles!)

And when I was in college, I used to shop at the Schweggmans on Chef Menteur and Downman Road. That was in the very early 70's. I can't believe Schweggmans is all gone. The parking lot at the store I mentioned above was like the Daytona 500! You had to keep your eyes open or you'd get run down!

 

[exploder3211]

No Honey You Posted it in the UK Fridge/Freezer thread

Click on the link as to where it is.. Sorry, i just cut and pasted and posted here... Sorry if i offended you..

Sploder
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[whirlcool]

You are right! I don't know what happened. I just posted that one after reading Jasons post about Schewggmans. I don't know how it got put into the UK refrigerator thread!

But thank you for copying it into the correct thread, I appreciate it!

 

[exploder3211]

Hehehe.. Your welcome.. I wonderd if i should have afterwards, but figured it'd be ok, sometimes things don't wind up where the belong here at automatic washer.. LoL