If your favorite Grocery Store from the Past wasn't mentioned in this Video... Be sure to Check out Part 2 of this video 😁. kzitem.info/news/bejne/xXym3aCAa6Zyl5w
@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw
Жыл бұрын
Now an online service so is SM.
@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw
Жыл бұрын
As is Radio Shack.
@jisatsu_hayaashi222
5 ай бұрын
You forgot about price rite
@donaldsmith716
4 ай бұрын
❤ A&P
@davep1103
2 ай бұрын
You didn't mention WiseWay.
@jamesclaire115
2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather ran the meat department at A&P before he retired. My grandmother purchased all her food and groceries from A&P for years. Today the name is long forgotten. So sad...
@jamesclaire115
2 жыл бұрын
That was in Oneida, New York...
@richardgentry6996
2 жыл бұрын
My uncle retired as a Meat cutter from A&P. Good Pension back in the day.
@randilevson9547
2 жыл бұрын
I remember shopping at the A & P for groceries with my parents, in the 1970's. The Jane Parker brand pies were so delicious!! Aaaahh, nostalgia!!!
@pepper13111
2 жыл бұрын
Atlantic &Pacific Tea Company.
@athos1974
2 жыл бұрын
Not forgotten by those of us who went to A&P with our grandparents when we were kids. Those were good memories shopping with them. As long as we are still around, A&P still lives within us. ❤️
@garbo8962
2 жыл бұрын
Can remember the great smell from the A&P coffee grinders near the end if cashier belts. My mom shopped at Penn Fruit, A&P , Food Fair, Pantry Pride & Path mark all of which long since closed.
@johnharris3362
2 жыл бұрын
Our old A&P building is now a Walgreens but if I close my eyes I can still almost smell that fresh ground coffee .
@SundaysChild1966
2 жыл бұрын
8 o'clock and Bokar coffees .. we still have them here in Canada at Metro and Food Basics .. we used to have A&P, many moons ago
@rosemaryedwards7239
2 жыл бұрын
I flipped one on as a little kid! The cashier lady gave me an annoyed look and shut it off!
@geriking516
2 жыл бұрын
Same here! I would love going to that store and smelling that fresh coffee smell.
@joelressner9651
2 жыл бұрын
All Philly area stores. Couldn't compete with the discount chains.
@ralphsanchico2452
2 жыл бұрын
A&P Ruled back in the day. The smell of that 8: o’clock coffee with the manual grinder located at the end of this large wooden table. In my local store in Brooklyn NY, they would have sawdust on the wooden floors in the meat and deli section! Oh well! Time goes on!
@birdsfan57
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the sawdust!
@ROGER2095
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the customer-operated grinders! They had three different blends. The customer would take a bag of coffee beans off the shelf, run it through the grinder, close the bag, and bring it to the checkout. The aroma would fill that section of the store.
@APG-fu6gk
2 жыл бұрын
Another Brooklynite here. Waldbaums was great but A&P had plaid stamps.
@lloydkline1518
2 жыл бұрын
❤️ A&B & farmer jack barbeque chicken & patatoe salids
@patriciamontagne1470
2 жыл бұрын
I remember as a child, my parents would ask me to go to our local A&P store to purchase milk and butter every Saturday afternoon. Every Tuesday ny father would purchase Two bags of freshly ground in store Eight O'clock Coffee. My parents were heavy Coffee drinkers. It could be 100 degrees outside, and my parents would consume coffee all the time. Every morning the aroma of coffee swirled around the house all the time. ☺️😚
@johngreen3543
2 жыл бұрын
We all drank coffee during office breaks year round. It was encouraged to drink coffee rather than cold water when the outdoor temperature was 110 or more. The maintenance managers stated you could get very sick by consuming cold water during our hot summers and I have followed that practice for over 50 years myself.
@mrmarkymark77
2 жыл бұрын
They were famous for the coffee
@lloydkline1518
2 жыл бұрын
❤️ farmer jacks potatoes salids& barbeque chicken
@Gunner192
Жыл бұрын
I remember you'd fill your Eight O'clock coffee bag with whole beans. Then, each check out register had a grinder and they'd grind up your beans while checking out. I buy 8 o'clock online now, and grind up the beans at home.
@yourguidetorights3909
2 жыл бұрын
The A&P was our market when I was a kid in the 50's & 60's in Pittsburgh. Brings back memories of shopping there.
@TheBigjohn527
2 жыл бұрын
Pgh here, too. The one in our neighborhood in the 1960's was "up front" on Grandview Avenue, Mt Washington.
@mikezylstra7514
2 жыл бұрын
You DO realize "Ann Page" product name is an expanded form of A&P?
@lloydkline1518
2 жыл бұрын
❤️ barbeque chicken & potatoe salid of farmer chicken
@lloydkline1518
2 жыл бұрын
❤️ farmer jack : : great barbeque chicken ;& potatoe salid : A& P grocery store purchase farmer jack
@thriftabout5110
2 жыл бұрын
The actual, official name of A&P was "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company".
@lloydkline1518
2 жыл бұрын
Really;; michigan used have A&P j& farmer jack grocery stores ❤️ farmer jjack great potatoes salid & barbeque chicken
@cceatl
2 жыл бұрын
I member
@willielarimer7170
2 жыл бұрын
Then in the late 80s A&P name was changed to Save A Center, in a last ditch effort to stay afloat, and disappeared in about 2 more years in Charlotte NC
@tommytong2854
2 жыл бұрын
Wow. Learn something everyday! Thanks
@willielarimer7170
2 жыл бұрын
When I worked at A&P I used to love to open the case of 8 O'clock coffee it smelled so goodi remember the red bags and I believe the decaf was orange bags
@MikeB071
2 жыл бұрын
As a kid growing up in New Jersey in the '70s, I remember that we had Foodtown, Grand Union, Pantry Pride, Pathmark and Shop Rite.
@heathenwolf4997
2 жыл бұрын
We have Shop Rite here in MA
@penelopelopez8296
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up on Long Island and I remember Pathmark, Waldbaums, Grand Union and Shop Rite. They have King Kullen now and they’re a pretty decent grocery store, in addition to the smaller Stop and Shop stores. We also had a grocery store called Hills but they didn’t last long. We had Food Fair in the 1960s but they weren’t as good as Pathmark or Waldbaums where my mom shopped all the time. I remember that Pathmark had a pharmacy inside….the kind where the pharmacist was in a raised office….you actually looked up at them and o recall he walked up a small set of stairs to retrieve your prescription. Things were so cool back then. Today, everything stinks. Although, I find that Walmart is the cheapest place to buy groceries.
@veronicaBolanos-mc4fc
2 жыл бұрын
Path mark, shop rite, go to for my parents!
@broadcastmyballs
2 жыл бұрын
Shop Rite still exists, there's a few across the river in PA too
@1950Grendel
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Grand Union and ShopRite, too. Safeway also had penny movies on a oversized Viewmaster.
@t200b-i7k
2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting about Kohl's! I had no idea they began as a grocery store.
@RehanaF13
2 жыл бұрын
Me neither. You learn something new every day!
@tammybrown4901
2 жыл бұрын
Me either
@CartoonPhreak
2 жыл бұрын
Yep I found everGirl clothing at Kohl’s while online using my iPad I should definitely ask Santa Claus to bring me 1 shirt from the everGirl clothing line during the Christmas holidays (Only Skye)
@cherylkoski7184
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, in Wisconsin where I grew up.
@CartoonPhreak
2 жыл бұрын
@@cherylkoski7184 Exactly American Girl (formerly Pleasant Company) is also in Wisconsin
@sheriheffner2098
2 жыл бұрын
I work at Food Lion. We acquired a dozen BILO employees. They are good people, plus their shoppers. I had no idea they changed their stores names. I used to work at Lowes Foods before coming back to Food Lion. I've been here almost eight years. I started working there back in 2000. So altogether I've been with Food Lion for almost fourteen years.
@willielarimer7170
2 жыл бұрын
I remember when Food Lion was called Food Town back in the late 70s- early 80s, think they changed their name when the moved into Virginia because there was already store called Food Town there
@sheriheffner2098
2 жыл бұрын
@@willielarimer7170 Yes I remember Food Town. That's where my parents shopped. When I was ten we moved into my grandpa's house and Food Town was almost next door to my elementary school. I would walk to school.
@P_RO_
2 жыл бұрын
Just found this. There's a huge amount of history behind many of the stores you covered here, and remnants of some remain. BiLo store #1 still stands with their 60's and 70's iconic life-sized plastic cow statue still sitting on top of it- only now it's a junkyard office. In nearby Clemson SC there were several BiLo's, and a springtime fraternity tradition was to steal one of the cows each year, always returning it a couple weeks later. Nobody was ever caught pulling off that prank. A&P began as the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, only branching into groceries when a tenant in one of their warehouses went broke and they sold what was abandoned. Piggly-Wiggly stores still exist in places. Post WW2 they focused on the poor and Black communities in the segregated south which didn't have real grocery stores, and that's where the remaining locations still exist. Piggly-Wiggly invented the modern grocery store/retail shopping system with aisles and carts and a check-out line at the front as a means to reduce employees while increasing the flow of customers using smaller than usual locations. They also originated the practice of restocking displays at night with cheap part-time workers wanting an extra job while not getting in the way of daytime sales. Winn-Dixie was prolific in the south where every town of any size had one, they tried to be the first into these places thus getting the entire market there because there wasn't enough business for competitors to exist. There are still some smaller regional chains left but the big names all came to failure after selling out to large corporations or unrelated businesses who wanted more profits and over-expanded them into ruin, or who milked them dry of money without re-investing into the business. Most of the remaining small chains are family-owned businesses or semi-independent franchises like IGA, or upscale stores instead of discount-price ones. WalMart has made it tough for them but there are still plenty of us who prefer to do business with our local grocers and always will.
@necroslair
2 жыл бұрын
Remember a few of these growing up in coastal Georgia - A&P (was in a strip mall with a Woolworths and Sears), Pantry Pride/JM Fields (you could walk from one to the other without having to go outside) and of course the Pig (Piggly Wiggly). Just about all the buildings still exist with other businesses in them now. There still exists a Piggly Wiggly on US17 in Eulonia, GA.
@m42037
2 жыл бұрын
@@necroslair In Michigan it's boring all we have is stupid Walmart and Kroger and Meijer
@P_RO_
2 жыл бұрын
@Jessica Smith Of all the grocery chains, I believe A&P was the largest geographically, though I have no knowledge of the NW and N Central states. It was certainly one of the oldest. In most of the places I know of from say 1985 and back, it was at a level above the discount chains with a larger and wider selection of top nationwide brands, which is how they could stay in a market with stiff local discount competition. Also worth mentioning is that some national chains would have only a few locations in a state where there were enough affluent people to make it viable, with there being no others.
@seththomas9105
2 жыл бұрын
Piggly Wiggly is still around. They do great business in many towns in Wisconsin and have built many new stores the last 20 years, although they pulled out of Iowa back in the late 70's - early 80's. We used to have Eagles stores in Iowa too. My grandmother shopped there quite a bit.
@jbj27406
2 жыл бұрын
Actually, it was "The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company" as I remember. My mom used to take me to the one in downtown Greensboro, NC back in the early 50's. Like the other commenter said, I can still remember the coffee grinder and the smell of freshly ground coffee. That brings back memories. Later, in the mid seventies, I was checking out at the nearby Kroger one night after work, around midnight, and a couple came up to check out. The checkout lady didn't say a word, she just placed their five pound bag of coffee on the scale and said "there's almost ten pounds of coffee in this bag". You could see that the bag was bulging nearly to the bursting point. They had ground two bags and put all they could in one bag. The clerk didn't flinch. She made them pay per pound. She had seen that trick before. Kroger's grinder was back near the coffee, instead of up front in the store where you paid first and then ground the coffee. Kroger had a gold packed 100% Colombian coffee back then that was a store brand and was the main item that I even bought there. Man, it was good. We don't have any Kroger's in our area anymore, but from what one of the other commenters said, our Harris-Teeters are actually under Kroger's name. The Harris-Teeters here are VERY nice. I go there occasionally, but mainly go to the Walmart Neighborhood store near me and Aldi a little further away.
@barbaralynch3015
2 жыл бұрын
Ah the memories - the A & P and Food Fair! Only two stores my mother shopped at!
@nighthiker8872
2 жыл бұрын
Remember the pickle barrel. The store doors would open, you walk in, and the other doors would open.
@barbaralynch3015
2 жыл бұрын
@@nighthiker8872 Yes the pickle barrels! I remember being so confused seeing them when I was real little. I couldn't understand what that was!
@nighthiker8872
2 жыл бұрын
@@barbaralynch3015 I first have to ask my mom first, but I already had the pickle tongs in my hand.
@barbaralynch3015
2 жыл бұрын
@@nighthiker8872 Hahaha!
@janeiwasduncan8463
2 жыл бұрын
Food Fair became Pantry Pride..my father was their corporate pilot..great job...
@mrzachblk
2 жыл бұрын
Still can’t believe Bi-lo is gone that was one of the best grocery stores in the Carolina’s.
@willielarimer7170
2 жыл бұрын
The Bi-Lo I worked at had a manager that ran the store into the ground. He got rid of the old time employees and disrespected customers. One customer got stung by a hornet because there was a nest by the door manager did nothing then managers son was riding a scooter in store and hit an old lady. If I didn't know better I'd swear they sent the jerk in to sabotage store
@danielthoman7324
2 жыл бұрын
@@willielarimer7170 in Northwest Indiana we used to have a chain of grocery stores called Buy-Low. obviously not related to the stores you're talking about. they also went out of business. don't know why they were always real busy.
@willielarimer7170
2 жыл бұрын
@@danielthoman7324 just like the Bi-Lo I worked at the buy low you shopped at was probably bought out. We have a local company here called Harris Teeter, they were bought out by Kroger
@margaretmcguire3241
2 жыл бұрын
I'm in Georgia & we have Bi-Lo grocery stores.
@frankarce2039
2 жыл бұрын
We had a bi- lo in Houston back in the 60s and 70s ....good ole days....gone forever...🤔🤔🤔...
@getoffmydarnlawn
2 жыл бұрын
We had a Piggly Wiggly that rebranded to Eagle when I was a kid, it's where my mom did all our grocery shopping. I don't remember the store as much as I remember the baggers. Every register had a bagger, always a guy, who would bag groceries and put them in a cart. The carts had small, numbered 'license plates' and the cashier (always a female) would write that number in black crayon on the back of the receipt. You'd go to your car, pull to the front, flash your numbered receipt and a bagger would load your groceries into your car. Today you're lucky to get a grunt of recognition, not to mention your groceries bagged. Dominick's was my first job in Chicago many years ago, I worked in the deli for $6/hr and I thought I was rich.
@seththomas9105
2 жыл бұрын
Fareway foods still has baggers/caryouts at their stores.
@carolynmorris7303
2 жыл бұрын
Customer service is going to crap in this country. It's one way for a business to cut corners. Now they have self checkouts where they expect you to be a cashier. What a joke!
@carolynmorris7303
2 жыл бұрын
The more employees they have, the less theft.
@carolynmorris7303
2 жыл бұрын
When I worked at Walmart they put the self check out in. Before you know it they were arresting customers like hotcakes. That's what they get for trying to eliminate customer service
@thommysides4616
2 жыл бұрын
In 1984 we shopped at an Albertsons grocery store in Orlando Fla. We had our 2 month old newborn boy with us at the register. My wife and I had the baby in a carrier on the cart. All was well, but when we turned to pay for the food the bag boy took our cart and started for the door without even waiting for us. He was rather rough and pushed the cart over the small bump at the doorway. Our son fell out of the cart and his head hit the cement floor. We should have sued them for that, but we were both young and stupid. Now you know..... why stores don't allow ignorant teenagers to take your food to the car anymore. I worked nearly 4 years myself as a bag boy in Ohio, and never did anything so dumb.....but I guess... I would never try and mess with someone's cart that had a baby in it. Common sense isn't so common anymore!!!!
@marklynch8781
2 жыл бұрын
Everyone loved A&P. It' interesting that at least two of their brands live on, Eight O'clock coffee and Jane Parker fruitcake. Growing up in the A&P era I can say that one thing killed A&P and that was not understanding the need to compete on price. They would advertise they had lowered prices and people would return to find they had actually raised prices.
@marklynch8781
2 жыл бұрын
@Charles Jan Your comment leads me to believe that the A&P name still has potential value even after being out of business for some years. The right people with an Aldi style store plan might potentially bring the company back.
@BuzzLOLOL
2 жыл бұрын
@@marklynch8781 - A&P name may have $Billions in debt attached to it...
@BuzzLOLOL
2 жыл бұрын
We had two nice big Giant Eagle Supermarkets, an east coast chain I believe, here in Toledo, Ohio, but high prices... raw beef steak up to $25/lb... lasted about 3 - 5 years around here... we also have Kroger, Walmart, and Meijer's... one store left of Churchill's mini chain (cousins to Winston Churchill)... The Anderson's stores shut down... Food Town gone... Farmer Jack gone... Edwards gone... Kash & Karry gone... Joseph's gone... Bassett's gone... A&P gone... Cub's Foods gone...
@boballmendinger3799
2 жыл бұрын
I still love Eight O'clock coffee! In the early - mid 70's, as a little boy, my great grandma would let me help her grind it. I was fascinated by the aroma, and the grinder, whirring away. Good times!
@billchambersmarquez1964
2 жыл бұрын
@@boballmendinger3799 you can still get 8o' clock coffee at Walmart they sell the whole bean regular and Colombian target sells the 8o' clock ground coffee
@greeneyes2256
2 жыл бұрын
When I was very young, we had the Iowa Pork Shops in Long Beach, CA. They had a real butcher, bought some of their fruit and veg from local truck farmers, and the bakery was excellent. Bags of flour, not junk brought in by Sysco, etc.
@mickiefreemickiefree9930
2 жыл бұрын
Giant Open Air, Cousin's, Carousel, Community Pride, Siegle's, Two Guys, Ukrop's, Farm Fresh...
@bigw8549
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Food Fair, Pantry Pride and A&P in Connecticut. We also had Waldbaums, Shopwell, Basics and Pathmark plus who knows what else. Love seeing all the old cars in the parking lots.
@joannemaguire2921
20 сағат бұрын
Thanks I couldn't remember Waldbaums. Shopwell Grand Union and Gristedes
@shawnwright4129
2 жыл бұрын
I worked for A&P in Georgia and Alabama back in the late 90's. Helped close down 3 stores. Worked for Foodmax, which was part of Bruno's, also in the 90s and helped shut down the store I worked at. Finding out your store is closing and you won't have a job is not a happy feeling. When I worked at Foodmax, I was part of the night stock crew. Got a call during the day saying don't come in tonight, meeting in the morning. I asked why, the boss said, "We're closing". My half awake self said "We close every night!" Found out it was permemantly . It's also very very strange watching a grocery store slowly becoming empty as the closing process continues.
@BuzzLOLOL
2 жыл бұрын
There were stores, gas stations, and restaurants around here that were open 24 hours... when they finally shut down, nobody knew where the keys were for the doors...
@66seattle
2 жыл бұрын
You must be from Milledgeville Georgia?
@shawnwright4129
2 жыл бұрын
@@66seattle No, at the time I lived in Columbus, GA.
@danielc.2042
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid we had an A&P in Mableton, GA
@jamesvanwyk1378
2 жыл бұрын
I miss A&P. A&P was North New Jersey based, and in its stores there carried products of interest to people of Dutch ancestory, that were and are near impossible to get else where. Mainly Leiden cheese (cheese flavored with cumin and containing cumin seeds) and ultra cured slab bacon. The coffee roasting business was sold and A&P coffee is sold in other chains. Some parts of A&P still operate under different names. A thing that killed A&P was that it bought out other supermarket chains that were in worse shape than they were.
@nighthiker8872
2 жыл бұрын
Michigan. A&P stamps, and the pickle barrel.
@wolfiethedog76
2 жыл бұрын
8 o'clock coffee was sold....A&P ceased existing in November of 2015 with ZERO of its stores existing. ACME bought a lot of there old locations in the eastern US but have no connections to A&P after that. The naming rights to A&P were purchased by a group and now sell coffee and tea online. They have a Instagram page as well.
@johnpatterson4816
2 жыл бұрын
I think you can still buy 8 O'clock Coffee at 7-11.
@johnpatterson4816
2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Freeport in the 60's I remember there were three major chain supermarkets-A&P;Henke and Pilat*(*Now Kroger) and Weingarten's. A&P gave out Plaid Stamps;Henke and Pilat gave out Top Value Stamps and Weingarten's gave out Big Bonus Stamps. BTW:If anyone on here who grew up in the Houston/Southeast Texas area in the 60's please post a comment on here. I'd love to remininesce about what it was like growing up back then.
@nighthiker8872
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnpatterson4816 Freeport, what state! I can STILL SEE the green stamps and people waiting in line to turn them in for a gift.
@518travelers
2 жыл бұрын
It was either A&P or Grand Union that had the S&H Green Stamps. I rember filling up the green stamp books with stamps to use to "buy" things. Im from a small town in the Adirondack Miuntains in Upstate NY and we had both Grand Union and A&P grocery stores operating at the same time.
@hondotoo
2 жыл бұрын
I think A&P had plaid stamps,,,
@cowboybob7093
2 жыл бұрын
@@hondotoo You're probably right, definitely not S&H Green Stamps. One time driving to my uncle's house a few hours away in the bible belt we saw some graffiti. It was a billboard that someone had added to the message: "Jesus Saves" ... _Green Stamps_
@cowboybob7093
2 жыл бұрын
@@hondotoo I kept watching, at 14:17 is your Plaid proof. I noticed it after I picked up my jaw from seeing 3 lbs of ground beef for $1.35 in the window!
@deanrogers8273
2 жыл бұрын
Those were the best years of growing up and proud to have such grocery stores like in the south we had A&P, Winn Dixie in which they gave you the s&h green stamp that you put in a booklet to either order something out of their catalog or we could cash in the booklet for cash We all had Community Cash that gave out Top Value stamps along with the booklets same thing as far as ordering from the catalog or cash them in for cash. We also had piggy wiggly and Acme and Harris Teeter. The 8 o'clock coffee at A&P had that rich aroma that you can smell through the store and probably the best grocery stores that had reasonable prices and everyone there treated you like family. I really miss those good ole days and was proud to be bought up in those days where you got more than your money worth.
@hondotoo
2 жыл бұрын
@@cowboybob7093 yeah, good one!
@PostMortar
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! I didn’t know so many of these chains lasted as long as they did. I also didn’t know that Kohl’s Food Stores was the same Kohl’s as…well, Kohl’s!
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
Thank You! Kohl's Food Stores did catch me by a surprise as well.
@christophernicholson20
2 жыл бұрын
@@undergroundretail do you remember Piggly Wiggly?
@VangoghsDoggo
2 жыл бұрын
@@christophernicholson20 The Pig is alive and well.
@VangoghsDoggo
2 жыл бұрын
Kohl's was owned by the Senator, Herb Kohl. He sold it, retired and became a politician. He was good at it, only served two terms and retired again. The Kohl's department store is a different owner I believe.
@Bitterstone3849
2 жыл бұрын
Great Scotts.
@lindawoody8501
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Alpha Beta and shopped there once or twice as a child in the Oxnard, CA area. I used to love shopping at Lucky Stores as an adult in Northern California.
@jamessatterfield7667
2 жыл бұрын
I fondly remember shopping at Alpha Beta with my mom as a youngster in Upland, CA. I also remember Lucky’s and Ralph’s Supermarkets as well. Great Memories!
@jamessatterfield7667
2 жыл бұрын
I remember when Alpha Beta had Susanne Sommers husband/ manager, Alan Hamel as their spokesperson in their television ads back in the ‘80s.
@lindawoody8501
2 жыл бұрын
@@jamessatterfield7667 Now that is a real memory - yes!
@lynnrainsford9101
2 жыл бұрын
Most people used A&P as a convenience store, buying only loss leaders. They were far more expensive than the surrounding competing supermarkets. Instead of cutting prices, they would send "specialists" to rearrange the store and cut benefits for the workers. (My friend worked there) I read in the paper that the CEO was making a lot of money. No surprise they closed.
@paulbergen9114
2 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine worked for Kohl's in Milwaukee and after A&P took over it began the real slide. He was manager at 2 inner city stores and had to fight tooth and nail to stock it with items blacks wanted. He had to do some slight of hand moves and order from outside vendors and this store had one of the better profit margins. He and most of the staff were speedy catching shoplifters and he even hired a few who turned out to be good employees. Sadly near the end he had the distinction of closing six of the last stores.
@markuslan7931
2 жыл бұрын
As a high schooI student in the 1960s' I worked part-time for both A&P (stocked shelves) and Food Fair Stores (cashier) in Dumont and Bergenfield, NJ. I have very fond memories of the stores and the managers. At both stores the managers made sure that the floors were clean, the shelves stocked properly, and the produce, dairy, and meat departments organized and spotless. While the A&P in Dumont was a small store the Food Fair in Bergenfield was huge, for its time. You had to be 16 to work at the A&P and 17 at Food Fair plus they paid $00.20 more per hour. Your video brought back some very pleasant memories. Thank you.
@johnjdevlin2610
2 жыл бұрын
In Philadelphia, PA back in the 1950s we had Penn Fruit, Food Fair, A&P and Acme Markets. After Food Fair had problems, they converted to Pantry Pride, as you indicated. Penn Fruit became Dale's. A&P became Super Fresh. A latecomer was Pathmark. We also had a CWM (Consumer's Warehouse Markets) whose big claim to fame was that they sold Grade B eggs dirt cheap. Shop Rite was also a latecomer. The one currently in my Frankford neighborhood used to be a Food Fair, I think. Your video brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks.
@rachelc.5463
2 жыл бұрын
@John J Devlin...I remember Acme Market being in Princeton, West Virginia. My parents rarely shopped there I believe their prices were higher than Kroger and A&P. So my parents shopped at A&P in town.
@BuzzLOLOL
2 жыл бұрын
Grade B eggs sounds scary... never seen them...
@patriciacullen7328
2 жыл бұрын
@John J Devlin.....my Mom worked at the Food Fair at Tulip and Allegheny and later at Pantry Pride on Aramingo Ave.
@johnjdevlin2610
2 жыл бұрын
@@patriciacullen7328 Ah, Port Richmond. How well I remember. We used to take my grandmother to Czerw's to get kielbasa.
@rjmcallister1888
2 жыл бұрын
A&P, Pathmark and SuperFresh were all banners under A&P.
@klystronvariant2686
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a small town in Louisiana. There was a Stanley Super D, Piggly Wiggly and Big Star. All are gone now and replaced by Wal Mart and a Market Basket.
@brucehenderson4424
2 жыл бұрын
There is a Big Star in Farmerville, and a Piggly Wiggly in Homer
@stevenhickey4223
2 жыл бұрын
There was a Dominick's store in Vernon Hills IL , outside of Hawthorn Mall. It was well known as a great place to meet / see members of the Chicago Bears NFL team. As a kid I met William "Refrigerator" Perry , Dan Hampton , Steve McMichael , Jim McMahon , Willie Gault , and Jeff Fisher at this store lol.
@SarahRenz59
2 жыл бұрын
I used to work at Lake Forest Hospital, and Mondays were always fun because you had at least 1 or 2 Chicago Bears coming in for x-rays. 😊🏈
@Prof_Jeff
2 жыл бұрын
Watched the video and thought "What about Acme?" They closed left and right in northern PA and upstate NY in the '70s. Come to find out they are alive and well. Couldn't tell you the last time I saw one. 🤔 Definitely miss A&P. They were on Main Street of almost every small town when I was a kid.
@kevinsmith5288
2 жыл бұрын
Acme is holding their own in the Philadelphia area but are being given a run for their money by Shop Rite and Giant. I now live in NE Pennsylvania and the closest Acme to me is 40 miles away in New Jersey. The largest Shop Rite in the United States is in a small town, Broadheadsville, twenty minutes from me.
@rjmcallister1888
2 жыл бұрын
Acme still operates and is part of Albertsons.
@leedaniels7196
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Food Fair,Pantry Pride,A&P,Bi-Lo,and Alpha Beta well.
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! You already know half of the stores on this list 😀.
@jimmyday9536
2 жыл бұрын
Another native Baltimorean here who remembers MARS supermarket. Very few knew just where the name came from. Was it named for the planet Mars? Did the letters stand for something? They had their own store brands and we're always busy, as I recall, sadly, as you said, this family-owned chain outlived the family and the younger ones sold out.
@carolinthegarden6084
2 жыл бұрын
In southern California, we had a chain grocery store called Von's that was akin to Lucky, Alpha Beta, etc. The one in Van Nuys was open 24 hours. Could still be there, but I'm not :D. We also had a k-mart style style store with groceries and some home goods called Gemco. Grew up in the 60s-70s. My mom shopped Lucky even though there was an Albertson's and Alpha Beta closer. Don't know why the preference.
@meloniejensen4092
2 жыл бұрын
THERE WAS ALSO A MARKET BASKET IN COVINA, CALIFORNIA ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD AND AZUSA AVE. DID YOU KNOW?
@lovesunicorns1435
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Von's now that I saw the name here.
@slamdancer777
2 жыл бұрын
@@meloniejensen4092 in Hacienda heights too, where the blockbuster used to be.
@slamdancer777
2 жыл бұрын
Vons, pavilions and pavilions place....all still exist. They were bought by Safeway, but are now owned by Albertsons. But yeah, they are still around
@aaronj.brooks1977
2 жыл бұрын
The ones you mentioned I remember as well Gemco’s Fedco’s Alpha Beta, also remember ABC and Boy’s market as well
@jimlaregina
2 жыл бұрын
14:22 I did not know how huge A&P was in its prime. CONSUMER REPORTS consistently rated A&P at the bottom of grocery store chains, at least beginning in the mid 1980s, when I subscribed to the magazine, which I still read every month. It is remarkable that enough people shopped at A&P long enough for the store to last until 2015.
@andrewd.conard5088
2 жыл бұрын
Safeway was huge, too. All over the west and center of the country and even in Richmond, VA, at one time, In the mid '80s, they suffered a major pullback.
@andrewd.conard5088
2 жыл бұрын
@Charles Jan Safeway opened three stores in the Tampa Bay area which made no sense at all since they couldn't compete with Publix. Stores closed after a few years.
@rivahcat8247
2 жыл бұрын
Colonial Stores! The only store my parents shopped at when I was a kid in the 1960s. In the 70s, they became Big Star (and now I know why)!
@leonard5606
2 жыл бұрын
I started working part time at a Big Star in 1966 when I turned 16 as a bagger then a cashier then overnight stocker all in 3 yrs.....really enjoyed it then joined the military in 1970. We have Walmart now, IGA, Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Kings Red & White, Whole Food, Aldi and mom and pop places around the area here in NC probably others I don't even know about....... cheers :)
@P_RO_
2 жыл бұрын
@@leonard5606 You missed Ingles, a family-owned NC business whose niche is in serving smaller towns where places like Walmart are unsustainable and upscale pricier grocers like Publix are unwanted.
@leonard5606
2 жыл бұрын
@@P_RO_ Never heard of Ingles but I think there is a Publix somewhere around Raleigh maybe more than one but I don't care much about those expensive stores.....Walmart/Food Lion is fine for my needs. If I lived in Goldsboro I'd probably do all my shopping on base anyways....not that cheap but maybe save a penny or two..... cheers :)
@ValerieDee123
2 жыл бұрын
I'm happy the Piggly Wiggly is still open!
@mrj-charles6383
2 жыл бұрын
For now I work in the grocery business and have seen a lot of them converting to other stores.
@janchxxheonczsekk6412
2 жыл бұрын
I missed Bi-Lo when I was living in Greenville, SC. They were everywhere. I can't believe you left Schwegmann's Giant Supermarket off this list. They were by far the dominant grocery chain in metro New Orleans and SE Louisiana. And when they said Giant, they mean it. The store was huge, almost twice bigger than other grocery stores. Everyone in the New Orleans area missed Schwegmann's!
@bannedtwice7767
Жыл бұрын
Yep, I learned to drive in the schwegmanns parking lot on the west bank. Good times.
@Hibiscus123
Жыл бұрын
Remember some of them had a bar😂
@davidsquires154
2 жыл бұрын
I, have worked in retail for 39 years, and I am now retired from Meijer, which is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I, hope you do a part 2 of this video.
@Imissyoulou
2 жыл бұрын
I shop at Meijer now. 93rd and Western, Chicago.
@davidsquires154
2 жыл бұрын
@@Imissyoulou I,retired from the Meijer located on 23 Mile Road and Gratiot in Chesterfield,Michigan.
@rcjr0620
2 жыл бұрын
Pathmark was a large grocery chain in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. Great place to shop in the 70s.
@undergroundretail
Жыл бұрын
Check out Part 2. for Pathmark 😃 kzitem.info/news/bejne/xXym3aCAa6Zyl5w
@davidsquires154
2 жыл бұрын
Back in the day, I remember in Michigan's Upper Peninsula supermarkets were: 1. A&P 2. IGA Foodliner 3. Red Owl When, A&P Stores closed permanently in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the Northern Lower Peninsula A&P Stores closed permanently, became IGA Foodliner Stores. Except, for an A&P Store in West Branch, Michigan became a Sav-a-Lot Food Store, in the Colonial Style A&P Food Store. Red Owl in Michigan's Upper Peninsula went out of business.
@robertcolpitts4534
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the A&P, IGA and the Red Owl stores in Manistique in the UP. We vacationed near there every year. The smell of the A&P coffee grinders is what I remember most. All that's gone with nothing left but newer buildings or vacant lots where the stores once stood. Very sad.
@yoopermary
2 жыл бұрын
@@robertcolpitts4534 A lot of us in the U.P. miss the Red Owl. On ebay mementos of Red Owl are sold for ridiculous amounts. I think around the 90s the Escanaba branch became Super One but that's boarded up and now we have Meijers, which is way too huge for me to navigate. Manistique now only has Jack's. Nice store but prices are high.
@robertcolpitts4534
2 жыл бұрын
@@yoopermary - Doesn't Manistique have a Save-A-Lot food store on the west side of town or is that gone as well? Jack's looks like a "boutique" grocery store like Central Market in Texas but not quite so exotic.
@davidsquires154
2 жыл бұрын
@@robertcolpitts4534 Back in the day, when I would be on vacation in the Houghton and Hancock in the Copper Country, I, remember A&P, IGA, and Red Owl in Hancock, and I would see A&P, IGA, and Red Owl in Sault Ste.Marie, Michigan.
@mikemiller659
2 жыл бұрын
I reemember IGA's in OKC
@GarandLuvr
2 жыл бұрын
When my family lived in the northeast, we would alternate between A&P and Grand Union, sometimes the choice was based on whether we needed GU's SSS Blue stamps or A&P's Plaid stamps... 🙂🤔😄
@u686st7
2 жыл бұрын
Mars really began growing when Pantry Pride pulled out of Baltimore in 1982. They had 19 stores at their peak, mostly on the east side of town. One of the assets that they acquired from Pantry Pride was their Baltimore warehouse, and they began to do their own distribution. 5 stores were sold to Weis, 2 have become Lidls and one has become a Best Buy, most of the rest sit empty. I miss them. Reasonable prices, good sales and no card.
@lylewyant3356
2 жыл бұрын
When I was little, we shopped at A&P. I remember my grandmother grinding the 8 O'clock coffee mmmm. My first job was at a Thorofare Supermarket
@jamessawyer8889
2 жыл бұрын
When I lived in Chicago, the grocery stores my parents bought at were Jewel, A&P, High-Low, & another store, in Arlington Heights Illinois where I moved to in 67, we shopped at Jewel, my mom really liked Dominick's better, Alpha Beta I remember a lot in California, I believe that Suzanne Somers hubby Alan Hamel used to advertise for Alpha Beta, also in Arlington Heights, we had a couple of Eagle grocery stores by me, we'd shop there on occasion, so it's very interesting to watch these videos & find stuff that I can relate to considering that it was part of my formative years
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! High-Low stores are a great suggestion and just did some research on that chain. Most of the stores on this list never really made it to the South, but I have only been in a BI-LO store and A&P. Surprisingly "Ingles Grocery Stores" are still holding on by a thread in my area. We can say that they are the "K-Mart of Grocery Stores." Check out some of my other videos as well! I cover Drug Stores, Book Stores, Department Stores, and Electronic Stores.
@lindakluth5611
2 жыл бұрын
Finally someone that remembers High-Low. That's where we got our high-low wagon. Loved that store as a kid. They had sandwich cookies for a dime with 15 cookies. You could buy one stick of butter or six eggs.A lot of people couldn't afford a whole dozen or four sticks of butter.Liver on sale was 29 cents for a pound.It was in the Hometown shopping plaza on southwest highway.
@georgekrpan3181
2 жыл бұрын
For several years during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hamel was a commercial pitchman for American Stores, a coast-to-coast chain of supermarkets. Specifically, he did advertisements for Alpha Beta stores in the western United States, and also appeared in occasional spots for Acme Markets in the northeastern United States.
@raymartin3527
2 жыл бұрын
We shopped at Pantry Pride on Davie Blvd in Fort Lauderdale in the late 60's, seemed like a nice place to shop and they sold a brand of soda called Golden Age we all loved.
@stever7157
2 жыл бұрын
I haven’t heard that name in many years. There used to be one in Bridgeport, CT one town over from where I grew up.
@offtherealm5438
2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in North Central PA in the 70s, our main grocery chains were: Weis, A&P, Super Duper, Acme, IGA and Giant. Only a few of those names exist. And in 50 mile radius, only one of those stores still exist in the same exact location....Weis Markets on Old Lycoming Road in Williamsport, PA.
@boballmendinger3799
2 жыл бұрын
I remember A&P, and Super Duper from the same time, in western PA.
@sybilgordon1288
2 жыл бұрын
My First job was at A & P Food Stores on General Meyer Ave. in Lower Coast of Algiers, when I was 16! (Worked "Bottle Sorter" -separated the Coca Cola, Pepsi, R.C. bottles). Worked my way up to Stock Boy, Warehouse Receiving,etc.. Started out making .25 cents an hour in 1966, to almost $3.20 an hour in 1980!!! W. Joseph Gordon
@zoftigbeatnik
2 жыл бұрын
I remember A&P and Pantry Pride. I remember going to them in the early 1970's.
@donaldvenezia6678
2 жыл бұрын
One chain in the New York area from about the 1880's until the 1970's was a chain called Bohack's. They even appeared in the original movie version of The Odd Couple, where Jack Lemmon as Felix Ungar shows a woman how to test a cantaloupe for ripeness!
@ladyketurahinwaiting
2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 53 and I remember my grandmother (who lived with us & did all the shopping) going to A&P, Colonial, Kroger and Big Apple. In the 60s a Piggly Wiggly opened in our hometown.
@zzeus43
2 жыл бұрын
I currently buy my groceries at my local Piggly Wiggly which is owned by Food Giant. A lot of history in the video.
@johnpatterson4816
2 жыл бұрын
@@zzeus43 There was a Piggly Wiggly in Temple until '97 or '98.Scott and White Hospital bought it and turned it into a clinic.
@johnpatterson4816
2 жыл бұрын
@@zzeus43 There are two Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in Texas: One in Athens and one in Paris.
@Dreckage
2 жыл бұрын
I started at piggly wiggly and now I work at and a lot of the old heads bring up food world and Bruno’s, I honestly love hearing the stories.
@tallboyyyy
2 жыл бұрын
My first job was as a cashier at Finast. I just worked there for a summer when in High School. The next year I left for college and the store moved into an empty discount department store space next door and rebranded as Edwards Food Warehouse. This was back in 1983-1984 in southern NH.
@bengiarraputo9357
2 жыл бұрын
I liked Finast
@viking22
2 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh, I remember some of these. Growing up in Washington state we had an A&P not far from the house which my parents always shopped at. When that left we switched to the Lucky grocery store down the road and I also remember a Prairie Market in another city close by. A bit south of us near a friend's house was a Piggly Wiggly and I also remember shopping at Alpha Beta when I visited friends in California. WOW, great memories but all those stores are gone now. Thanks for the informative video.
@cbroz7492
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Northern New Jersey in the 50s and 60s..A&P, Food Fair, Pantry Pride...actually a reinvigorated Food Fair... Grand Union, Shop Rite and Acme...Pathmark came later in the mid 60s..haven't been back to NJ..from Florida...in almost 30 years..I have no idea what's popular now...
@penelopelopez8296
2 жыл бұрын
Stop and Shop is where my sister food shops on Long Island. They have King Kullen and it’s a great store but since she only buys food for two people every month, Stop and Shop is her go to food store. I have never been to a Stop and Shop…..I preferred King Kullen and Waldbaums before they shut down…..Waldbaums had the best meat department and kosher foods.
@wolfiethedog76
2 жыл бұрын
@@penelopelopez8296 Walbaums was owned by A&P....
@undergroundretail
Жыл бұрын
Be sure to Check out Part 2. for some of those stores 😃 kzitem.info/news/bejne/xXym3aCAa6Zyl5w
@drewconway7135
2 жыл бұрын
I’m not sure why A&P is on a list of “forgotten” grocers. Also, there is heavy bias toward stores that operated in the Midwest and South.
@willielarimer7170
2 жыл бұрын
In 1979 Charlotte had 11 A&Ps by 1990 they were all gone. When I worked there the rumor was an overseas company bought them, and they cleaned house of management. You had to be there 5 years to be full time, so I worked there for 4 years and 50 weeks and they laid me off then all the stores went belly up
@tbirdracefan
2 жыл бұрын
And MARS that only had about 12 stores and only operated in the state of Maryland.
@fritterfoof5146
2 жыл бұрын
They left out Grand Union they were gone with the 1970s .
@willielarimer7170
2 жыл бұрын
@@fritterfoof5146 I remember Grand Union, in upstate NY, and Finest grocery stores
@suzannebrandt1087
2 жыл бұрын
Didn't mention Grand Union or Kwik check. I think they were owned by Winn Dixie. Skaggs Albertson's also.
@undergroundretail
Жыл бұрын
Check out Part 2. for some of those stores 😃 kzitem.info/news/bejne/xXym3aCAa6Zyl5w
@robertorick6383
2 жыл бұрын
Michigan has had some grocery chains that are no longer in existence that I remember as a child: 1. Farmer Jack's, later bought out by A&P. 2.Great Scott's. 3.Chattam's. 4. Food Town. 5. IGA. 6. Spartan. 7.Giant's/Midway. 8. Hannety's (located mainly in the Flint/Saginaw area.)
@Nickabod79
2 жыл бұрын
My Grandma always called it Farmer Jerk 😂
@robertorick6383
Жыл бұрын
@jessicasmith5728 All of the IGA stores are gone now in Michigan. The last one I saw was in my late Grandmother's hometown of Hale, Michigan, which is about 15 miles from East Tawas Bay. It's now a Save-A-Lot store. There are a few, but not many Save Marts in Michigan. The main anchor grocery stores in Michigan are Kroger, Meijer, Wal-Mart, and Save-a-Lot.
@deanstanley2125
2 жыл бұрын
New Orleans native here and we had Winn Dixie, national, Canal Villerie, Delchamps and where my mom made groceries at Schwegmanns. That store had a bar where you could find all the dad's having a brew while mom and the kids were shopping . We had a really good local market named pugilias , fats domino lived behind that market and we would see him shopping there every once in a while.
@Crankster409
2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Metarie we always shopped at Schwegmanns, I remember seeing the old ladies getting there Schwegmanns beer and fresh french bread to shop. Schwegmanns was the only store I remember that had the old tills that they would bring out to allow people to continue shopping when the power went out.
@fubarmodelyard1392
2 жыл бұрын
Didn't national merge with canal villerie then close after a few years? I do wish schweggman's was still open
@mattgilly1924
2 жыл бұрын
I can think of many MI based chains that have gone by the wayside like VG’s, Glen’s, and D&W, now owned by SpartanNash, Felpausch rebranded to Family Fare after being purchased by SpartanNash, and Farmer Jack’s. I’m sure there could be more in MI, but I started working in the state as a food manufacturer rep in 2009. In Indiana we lost Marsh Supermarkets as the latest and a couple that I can think of earlier that were purchased by Kroger are Scott’s, Owens, Pay-Less, and Jay-C stores. Rogers was a local group to Fort Wayne. Mr D’s and O’Malia’s were in the Indianapolis area with Marsh purchasing many of the O’Malia’s stores. I’m sure there are more in these two states and I did see that someone mentioned Big Bear over in OH. Then there has been Fresh Encounters that has purchased groups in OH. Love the video as a 35 year grocery veteran.
@laurafranich4807
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Michigan and I remember shopping at A&P, IGA and Eberhards
@20thcentlimited
2 жыл бұрын
@@laurafranich4807 Also in Michigan, Wrigleys, Packers and Big Bear.
@BuzzLOLOL
2 жыл бұрын
Yep and former Food Town from Toledo, Ohio/southern Michigan area... 33 Food Town Supermarkets and 17 The Pharm drugstores in the chain plus Seaway Distributing to supply them... was sold off to Spartans Foods... which closed them after a year... although 3 independent Food Towns popped back up...
@benjimartinnc
2 жыл бұрын
My mama loved shopping at A&P when its location in Thomasville, NC was open, and it was shut down along with all of the other A&P stores here in North Carolina.
@rachelc.5463
2 жыл бұрын
@Benji Martin...My parents always shopped at A&P back in 1960s first at Princeton, West Virginia then after we moved to Northern Virginia at Fairfax then Herndon.
@chaseman94
2 жыл бұрын
I hope you do a part 2 of this .
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for Watching 😃. It’s always a possibility for one to happen.
@marcboulware6242
2 жыл бұрын
@@undergroundretail If you do try to include "Community Cash" and, to a lesser degree, "Hannaford's". Oh wait, the latter is still around.
@robertphillips6296
2 жыл бұрын
I remember Piggly Wiggly, A&P (The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company), Shop & Go, Good Deal, Giant Food Market, Grand Union, Food Lion, Colonial Market, Skaggs, Jewels Markets, Express Mart, Kroger, Albertsons, Food World, Fairways, Gooding’s Supermarkets, Table Supply, Pantry Pride, Express Foods and Marcos Markets.
@SarahRenz59
2 жыл бұрын
Throughout my childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, my hometown had a Jewel, National, A&P, and Eagle grocery store at one time or another. Jewel-Osco is the only survivor, along with a Sunset Foods (local IL chain) that came to town about 15 years ago. I liked the cool architecture of the Kohl's grocery stores, though they closed not too long after I discovered them.
@LatitudeSky
2 жыл бұрын
Shopped at a Family Dollar this week, in what is a very old strip of stores. You can tell it used to be a grocery store 60 or 70 years ago, and the lot across the road has the foundation footprint of what must have been a huge shopping center. Just a flat lot now. And sure enough, I noticed today the street is still called Colonial Drive. Big Star was a big deal when I was a kid. We had a friend who called it Biggie Star. Miss Winn-Dixie. They had some amazing house brand products. And I really liked their no-frills Saverite sub-brand stores. It was ahead of its time.
@OleGeezerCirca1941
2 жыл бұрын
In Michigan: 1928 + Borman Food Stores, renamed Food Fair, renamed Farmer Jack's, sold to A&P, sold to Kroger. Big Bear Market-Royal Oak Michigan 1950's +.
@itsjustme7487
2 жыл бұрын
WOW! I had forgotten that!
@lloydkline1518
2 жыл бұрын
❤️ farmer jack potatoes salid & barbeque chicken
@Kinte.Rashayah
4 ай бұрын
Oh this is what happened to Bi-Lo's in Charlotte NC. Yes! This bout the time Publix started sprouting up everywhere. America! This is what our evening local news should be reporting & informing us. *Thanks for sharing Underground Retail!*
@undergroundretail
4 ай бұрын
No Problem! Thanks for Watching!
@districtline
Жыл бұрын
Sizanne Somers' husband, Alam Hamel, used to do the Alpha Beta ads on the 80's. His opening, "HI! I'M ALAN HAMEL!! was so loud it could almost shake the windows 😂. Nice stores, but I've always been a Ralph's gal myself.
@undergroundretail
Жыл бұрын
Julie, you are winning 🏆
@lockedin60
2 жыл бұрын
When my parents moved from a rural area of Guilford County NC into the City of Greensboro Lawndale Shopping center had a Big Star Store and then I think it changed it's name to Colonial. There was also an A&P Store at Golden Gate Shopping Center that as I child we would shop. Sadly all those chains have long since closed.
@markbarbee3454
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if that A&P at Golden Gate became a Harris Teeter? I worked for HT for years and we had a location at Golden Gate Shopping center. It was a very small HT, and did very little sales but it turned enough of a profit to stay open for many years.
@lockedin60
2 жыл бұрын
@@markbarbee3454 I honestly can't recall. There was also a Winn-Dixie in Golden Gate too. So I think back then unlike today mother would buy certain things at A&P and certain things at Winn-Dixie. I am not a good shopper and I don't have enough energy to drive around town like dear old mom 50+ years ago, Plus we were only paying $.29 a gallon for gas not like it is today. I think that shopping center was coinvent enough to shop there when we lived out in the rural Guilford County. Once we moved to Efland Drive there was a whole host of Shopping Centers and we rarely shopped the stores at Golden Gate. I think mainly if we were over at my Grandparents place we would shop there. My grandparents lived on Cypress Street near Cone Mills Revolution Plant. But you are correct that store was not very big.
@dw3897
2 жыл бұрын
In Ohio there was Pick-n-Pay, which was bought out by Ahold (sp?) and became Finest then rebranded as Edwards. My bother-in-law started as a packer with Pick-n-Pay in the late '60's and finally became the art director before they finally closed. Another brand was Fisher Foods which changed names several times finally becoming Giant Eagle.
@btipton6899
2 жыл бұрын
Alber's and Big Bear...
@UserName-ts3sp
2 жыл бұрын
big bear was the big one in columbus
@oldsrocket8841
2 жыл бұрын
Do you remember Valu King?
@pete5668
2 жыл бұрын
I shop at giant eagle. Expensive, but I know the store so it's quicker.
@waynefontaine5533
2 жыл бұрын
Alpha-Beta is the grocery store I grew up goin to with my Mom here in San Jose, Calif in the 1980's...She really liked that store and was disappointed when it shut down.....
@marthah4992
2 жыл бұрын
As a child I remember going to Pantry Pride and Food Fair with my mom. Also, I vaguely remember a Big Value store. From Baltimore County, MD
@rayfridley6649
2 жыл бұрын
Food Fair had several supermarkets in the Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. areas. Their biggest promotion was their giving S&H green stamps to their customers. About 1960, their name was changed to Grand Union. Grand Union lasted for about 10 years before disappearing. After that, I don't know,
@rachelc.5463
2 жыл бұрын
@Ray Fridley...I remember there being a Grand Union in Manassas, Virginia.
@BuzzLOLOL
2 жыл бұрын
Around here my Mom preferred Top Value stamps... we got card table and folding chairs, etc. for them...
@Dh-rp7gg
2 жыл бұрын
I worked at an A&P in the early to mid 90's. They were nice stores.
@dianewilson5516
2 жыл бұрын
My grandmother's maiden name was Kohl, but she wasn't related to those people. I remember Alpha Beta, there was one at Shaw and West here in Fresno California. I shopped there several times in the early '70's
@johnvisconti3010
2 жыл бұрын
Yes A & P , I remember going there until we moved from the neighborhood near that store. I was only 5 years old when we moved but I definitely remember going to A & P every Saturday, my whole life I liked grocery shopping. Good Memories...
@jamesdolan5236
2 жыл бұрын
I remember a commercial about Alpha-Beta, that had a jingle that went, "tell a friend about Alpha Beta" which was virtually identical to the jingle used by another chain called "Kash and Karry".
@slackingpacking
2 жыл бұрын
Another one to mention is Big Bear Grocery Store based out of Columbus. It went defunct in 2003. I filmed 2 remaining abandoned locations.
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
That's a great suggestion! I forgot all about them. Do you have a link to video of those abandoned locations?
@@undergroundretail No problem! Don’t be afraid to ask if you want to use any my videos!
@boballmendinger3799
2 жыл бұрын
I live down the road from the one that was at Hamilton and Refugee roads. Miss it.
@METALMAN4Wii
2 жыл бұрын
Farmer Jack owned by A&P was big in Michigan until 2003 when they all shutdown.
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
That’s a great suggestion! I just read about them. They can possibly be in a Part 2.
@METALMAN4Wii
2 жыл бұрын
@@undergroundretail The Real they went under was what I heard is if the customer found something expired. they could get the a still good of the same product for free and there was no limit so people were filling their carts. I only did it once got some honey ham lunch meat felt kinda bad but hey their policy.
@SchuylerT.Colfax
2 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing 'Farmer Jack Savings Time' on WJR in Detroit.
@chrislaymon284
2 жыл бұрын
forgot to mention the bilos bought by food city in tn and va and one other state i believe
@ValerieDee123
2 жыл бұрын
It's not the same! I miss Bi-Lo Food City is horrid. I'm in Tennessee
@cindythecatwoman1601
2 жыл бұрын
I remember A&P and Bi/Lo Grocery stores both where my grandparents lived. It's sad their gone now.
@moniquefiorecna
2 жыл бұрын
When I was little we would always go to alpha beta for groceries up to 93 when moved to a new city that didn't have it. I really remember every time we went there my grandmother would let me get a bag of candy from bulk candy box. They had the most amazing candy and I would mix all the candy in my bag. I miss stores having that
@tonebonebgky2
2 жыл бұрын
I look for any store nowadays that literally has any label but Walmart, I hate Walmart and will move heaven and earth to avoid it if at all possible.
@michaelwiener477
2 жыл бұрын
Wally World
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
😂
@michaelrocker9000
2 жыл бұрын
PathMark in the NYC Metro area is now Stop and shop. Then there was Waldbuams Bohacks King Kullen Royal Farm all in the NYC area.
@undergroundretail
Жыл бұрын
Be sure to Check out Part 2. for some of those stores 😃 kzitem.info/news/bejne/xXym3aCAa6Zyl5w
@michaelrocker9000
Жыл бұрын
@@undergroundretail Thanks for the link. Man did the stir up some cob webs in my head. I worked for C&S wholesale around the time they took over Grand Union. C&S was their distro center. I wasn't aware that Price Chopper took over Tops. They were another C&S costumer. C&S has only become bigger since I left them in 1999.
@gingerrogers7107
2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Detroit in the 60's & 70's, there was Bi-Lo, A&P, Wrigley, Great Scott, Chatham and Farmer Jack. My mom loved Bi-Lo.
@HB-C_U_L8R
2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Chattanooga. When Red Food was changed over to Bi-Lo, the stores went right down the crapper. The stores were usually dirty and understaffed.
@doubleuplsst3149
2 жыл бұрын
We still miss our Red Food Stores!
@bostonboxman
2 жыл бұрын
Loved the 8oclock coffee A&P sold back in the day What about First National Stores I’m surprised you didn’t mention them They were also pretty big chain of stores when I was growing up
@BuzzLOLOL
2 жыл бұрын
Could have included former Food Town from Toledo, Ohio area... 33 Food Town Supermarkets and 17 The Pharm drugstores in the chain plus Seaway Distributing to supply them... was sold off to Spartans Foods... which closed them after a year... although 3 independent Food Towns popped back up...
@robertlefave1273
2 жыл бұрын
I can name several you didn’t mention: Alexander’s, Atlantic, Cerretani’s, Elm Farms, First National/Finast, Heartland, Purity Sav-Mor, Purity Supreme. Also, I remember Mars department stores, but not supermarkets
@jerrymccrae7202
2 жыл бұрын
My Mom an Grandparents shopped A ,P. My Grandparents loved the apple pie in the "see through pannel"! I ,on the other hand and being a boy, LOVED the empty box bin! Man I could've played half the day there!
@jamesroberts2115
2 жыл бұрын
The best part of this video is looking at all of those great looking 50's and 60's cars in the parking lots.
@shaunmccracken2764
2 жыл бұрын
There's two that were in Southern California not really touched on here: Lucky's and Hughes. Lucky's eventually became part of Albertsons, Hughes kind of disappeared. Then there was that Haggen fiasco when they tried to expand into California acquiring a number of Albertsons stores, then going bankrupt not long after.
@KR_Diecasts
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Growing up in Southern California I do remember Hughes.
@kaywoodie
2 жыл бұрын
Now I have thier jingle in my head, "We Are The Buyers From Hughes. We Pick Pick Pick Before We Choose!" LOL
@deanstanley2125
2 жыл бұрын
Lucky is still alive and well in the Monterey and salinas area
@georgekrpan3181
2 жыл бұрын
I live near an Albertsons that became a Haggens. Haggens was run of the mill. It's now a Smart & Final. There was also a Hughes near me which is now a TJ Maxx.
@BigB23ABCUSA
2 жыл бұрын
I worked at Bi-Lo for 10 years
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
That's awesome! Which location?
@jamesmurray8558
2 жыл бұрын
Bruno's was started as a small store.I remember the holiday song.We have the best of everything, with low,low prices to.Happy holiday start at Bruno's.
@zigman8550
2 жыл бұрын
I started working at A&P in 1983 in Michigan. In 1988 they bought a Michigan grocery chain called Farmer Jack. In 2007 they bailed out of Michigan. Almost 40 years later I now work at Kroger.
@lindanadeau1884
2 жыл бұрын
My mom and I would go to A+P. I was 5. I could smell the fresh ground coffee, that sadly I was too young to drink.
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
My Mom wouldn't let me drink it either. First time I had Coffee I was given Decaf
@palw5949
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you...A&P use to have the largest warehouse (over mile long) near horseheads NY the pickers use to use roller skates to fill orders .. now the place it use to be has 6 - 8 shopping plazas. Again thank you..
@LionsTigersBears
2 жыл бұрын
We used to shop at A&P store. They used to have the general mills food sticks and original Tang. Great store things were very affordable.
@mikezylstra7514
2 жыл бұрын
My mom went there for one thing: Eight O'clock coffee. Everything there was overpriced according to her. As another has noted, they were not into competitive pricing.
@bcgreen7479
2 жыл бұрын
There's a lot of grocery stores that no longer exist in north Texas; many of which you've mentioned, and a few more that you didn't. Such as ; A&P, Jewel t, Texas T, Piggly wiggly, Jewel Osco, minyards / Sack and Save, Safeway, Carnival, Food Lion and one other that I can't think of the name right now.
@myasisdragon37
2 жыл бұрын
King Saver might be the one you're thinking of
@bcgreen7479
2 жыл бұрын
@@myasisdragon37 No unfortunately King savior was never in the north Texas Market. But here's just a little info on King savers: King savers also known as KINGS FOOD MARKET & or Balducci's Food Lover's Market . File for bankruptcy in August of 2020 last year. ON Oct. 14, 2020 Malvern, PA, Oct. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - ACME Markets, Inc., a division of Albertsons Companies, Inc., (NYSE: ACI) announced it was the successful bidder for 27 Kings Food Market and Balducci's Food Lover's Market.
@petebock7021
2 жыл бұрын
I miss A & P.
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! Which location did you shop at?
@petebock7021
2 жыл бұрын
@@undergroundretail It was when I was a kid. But it was in Maryland.
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
@@petebock7021 That's Awesome! I don't recall being in one but seen them around some years ago.
@petebock7021
2 жыл бұрын
Is Giant Food stores still around?
@undergroundretail
2 жыл бұрын
@@petebock7021 I seen them around when I was in Maryland last year. Here is there store locator giantfood.com/store-locator/
@echt114
2 жыл бұрын
Red Owl was fairly popular in the twin cities area at one time. Only recently did I learn that they once expanded to MI, WI, IA, ND & SD and had 441 stores in the 80s.
@tywincatforever77
2 жыл бұрын
omg Red Owl was the store Mary Tyler Moore shopped at in the opening credits of the MTM Show,where she is considering the package of meat
@michaelboggus9993
2 жыл бұрын
One note that wasn't in the video is that the Bi-Lo stores in North Georgia and southeast Tennessee were purchased by Food City in 2015. So really they haven't been out of this area long enough to be forgotten
@doubleuplsst3149
2 жыл бұрын
Food City is an excellent place to shop and work. The chain continues to expand. Good prices, beautiful produce and an old-fashioned meat department where freshness is an everyday way of life.
@doubleuplsst3149
2 жыл бұрын
Red Food Stores... Chattanooga and North Georgia... Managed thru the 1970's and 1980's by Jesse Lewis, Red Food held an almost unheard 71% of the Chattanooga market share. Low prices and excellent customer service kept the cash registers ringing. I'm proud to say I spent many years employed by Red Food! Jesse Lewis would recreate the same business success for the Food City chain of supermarkets...
@michaelboggus9993
2 жыл бұрын
@@doubleuplsst3149 I'm sure they had that market share after they bought up all the local Krogers. While I was always a red food sharper since they were the closest store to the house I grew up at I thought that them trying to monopolize the Chattanooga Market was a little heavy handed. The federal government agreed.
Пікірлер: 2 М.