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Check this website out. you will take a trip down memory lane with some of our favorite past and present grocery store chains. Mine are in there..A&P,Food Fair,Bohacks in NY..I can still remember the smell of Eight O'Clock coffee when I would enter an A&P..Does anyone remember the old fashioned coffee grinders that would be at the end of each checkout?...ahhh memories!! =)
 
Oh, wow, I recognize the Bohack in the "Odd Couple" pic.

It's on 86th and 2nd, in my therapist's building!

(How could I not recognize it, I'm there so often, LOL!)

It's a "Food Emporium" now.....

Yes, I remember A&P WEO and the coffee grinders...."Eight O'Clock" is it's own company now, sold in stores preground, like Stop 'n' Shop....God alone only knows what happened to the funky old red grinders with the big handle and wheel on the side....

I also remember the old brands, like "Ann Page" English muffins and "Jane Parker" dinner rolls!
 
Hey Shane

Yes indeed A&P 8 oclock coffee when our local A&P closed ( now a big lots) I was pretty miffed. Yes, I still remember the red coffee grinders.
 
We still have a few stores with those anchient red coffee grinders around asheville. Harry Peter (ie: Harris Teeter) is right down the street from me here in raleigh... We also have a Kroger nearby. In the asheville area all we have is Bi/Lo and Ingles and a few Food lions around.. Oh and 1 Harris Teeter.. There's an IGA in Old Fort (20 miles to the east) and i think thats it. Ingles headquarters is in Black Mountain (my best friend Nathan works there as a Traffic Security Clerk and his mom is the Mantiance Director).. A&P left the area in the late 60's and all stores became Ingles. The Food Lion down the street from me(which i liked for dry goods, but would never buy Produce or Meat there)up and left last year when i whent to Michigan for 3 weeks. They never had a store closing sale, they just LEFT..
Oh, we do have 2 ALDI's which i don't like at all and a couple "Go-Grocery's" (local discount chain) and Amazing Savings which is really nasty and filty and i refuse to go there. The amazing savings is int eh old bi/lo which i can fondly remeber the dryer sheets in the black box with pink towels on them. They smelled great.. So did there brand detergent. Also alot of our ingles have Starbucks in them, wich makes no f'n sense to me. Not many good ol boys drink that crap (including me)..
 
A&P had a big presence in Canada thru the 50's and they're still here though according to that website they (the US parent) sold of the "profitable" Canadian company. There's still two A&P's here in this town, the only two 24hr stores as well. Still got the 8 O'clock and Bokar on the shelves.
 
I guess the parent co. did sell off the Cdn arm..the website says it's owned by Metro Inc. here now. They probably had to sell it off to get the money to stay afloat in the US.
It's gonna be interesting in this little place because a new Walmart Supercenter just opened last month. I did some shopping in there and didn't find the prices lower other than the usual loss leaders
 
Shane

Oh yes I remember the old A&P we have none at all anymore here but do miss them. they had there own tea that was out of this world I was totally addicted to it, it was the one in the can with lemon and sugar added.

Skip...
 
Wow, such memories!!

Great site Shane! You brought back lots of memories!

Within walking distance from our home, we had A&P, Kwik Check (Winn-Dixie), Publix, and Grand Union. We had to drive to get to the Food Fair (later turned into a Pantry Pride).

I am still able to purchase 8 O'Clock coffees at our HEB stores. They are also available at Wal-Mart. This ain't your mama's 8 O'Clock though! Long gone is the Bokar, but there is still Original (red bag), 100% Colombian (brown bag), French Roast, and even flavoured beans. Especially good is the French Vanilla in the yellow bag. For half the price (or better) than Starbucks, these coffees are wonderful. Buy the whole beans and do your own grinding. A cup of this from a vintage coffeemaker will leave you breathless (and highly caffeinated, of course)!

Thanks for the fun site!!
 
I can't STAND Starbucks!

To me, it tastes like what I would imagine the remains of a Duraflame log would taste like...

And there's one on every corner....WHY??
 
Neat site!

After looking at some of the old stores, I can definitey pick out the distinctive architecture around town. Most of the stores have been converted to other uses, but after seeing them, it's quite clear what they once were. The most distinctive being the big tall brick walls, and the arched roofs that Safeway built, but also the little V style roofs that A&P built in many small towns around here
 
Schwegmann's

There's even a blurb about "SHWAG-manns" Supermarket in New Orleans. That's where us Chalmations uses to go shop before Ghetto Mart opened across the street.
 
We had some local places

Although, we have always had Safeway, as long as I can rememmber. Before i was in this life, we had Pay and Take it and Piggly Wiggly. Thriftway( who had something interesting once) I was walking through the wine section and saw hangover helper, i guess that it is good when you need a helping hand?!! We also have Winco Foods and Food 4 less, Fred Meyer, QFC, New Seasons, Zupans. OHHHH , when I was a kid, we had Dick and Steve's. How could I forget. Steve was really hot.
PS, I miss those stores that had butter toffee peanuts as you walked in the door, our Sears and Monkey Wards had them. i would take a quick sweet smell and go running for the Kenmores!!!
 
Oh Gawd, Bohacks was on Linden Blvd in Queens...they always had good buys in the butcher shop...chicken cutlets .39 a pound. How can you beat that????? Well, they were $1.99 at Publix today, so i guess I can't complain.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
I thought safeway in denver was kinda high but not too bad. not as bad as Albertsons. BTW_King Soopers was cheap
 
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!
 
National Food Stores

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

Skip...
 
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!
 
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!
 
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
 

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