FORGOTTEN Grocery Stores from the past - Life in America
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We had Hinky Dinky when I was a kid. Not to be confused with Piggly Wiggly, which is what they had in the south.
Clem72
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Had an Alpha Beta and an A&P anchoring either end of the same strip mall when I was a kid. Both of course went out of business and that whole block more or less became abandoned.
Growing up the small town my mum was from had an A&P and we had one in Oxon Hill 1973
Actually Oxon Hill had
Giant
Acme
Atlantic and Pacific
Safeway
We had an Acme near where I was growing up on MD202. I think it’s closed either in the late 60s to about 1970. After that my mother used to go to the Pantry Pride which I think might have been bought and become a Safeway.
Countless times we went there, Acme, and never once did I see one of those awesome rocket packs that Wiley coyote had.
Countless times we went there, Acme, and never once did I see one of those awesome rocket packs that Wiley coyote had.
used to be one of those on Eastern Avenue near Mount Rainier. That was the only one I ever knew of.
gemma_rae
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I'll be darned, they became Shopper's Food Warehouse.
Shoppers Food & Pharmacy - Wikipedia
Grumpy
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There was one on University Blvd(193) just past the original Ledo's.
Dont remember that one. Must be a couple years before my time around there.
One missed here is Cub Foods, we shopped the one a little north of us in Beloit WI when we lived in the village of Rockton, IL.
It was the last Wisconsin store and closed in 2012.
The 3 biggest in my home town were A&P, First National (later known as Finast) and Stop & Shop. Only S&S still exists under the Dalhazie (sic) Group as a sister company to Giant.
It was the last Wisconsin store and closed in 2012.
The 3 biggest in my home town were A&P, First National (later known as Finast) and Stop & Shop. Only S&S still exists under the Dalhazie (sic) Group as a sister company to Giant.
I'd forgotten about them, had one near the college I went to in Vermont in the late 70's.
Grand Union beer was $0.69 a six-pack.
gemma_rae
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South Cumberland had A&P and Acme within a mile of each other. Most of the others I remember were Mom and Pop places.
Clem72
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That's where this was, just a little ways north of San Fransisco. We also had a Safeway and a Petrini's, though no one I knew was fancy enough to shop in Petrini's. It was literally a grocery store that caters to the wealthy and their butcher cost 10x what the normal grocery stores cost.