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The Saars Marketplace in Renton was indeed formerly a Lucky store that also had a Skagg's Drug Center next door. The Skagg's later did become a Osco and then Paylesss Drugs. But before Saar's, when Lucky's Seattle Division was sold to Associated Grocers, this location became a Thriftway. After being...

Wesbild, the owners of Westwood Village in West Seattle and Burien Town Plaza have sold these properties. Westwood was sold to Bentall Kennedy and Burien Town Plaza was sold to Merlone Geier. Here is the news release from Wesbild: http://www.wesbild.com/about/news/2011/04/wesbild-sells-westwood-vill...

I am not sure when it is going to open, but WinCo is going to be opening in Tacoma Place Shopping Center at S 72nd Street and I-5. When this shopping center was built, it acutally had the only Food 4 Less store that I had ever seen in Washington State. Eventually Food 4 Less closed and it became a f...

I am wondering if some Targets might be prohibited to add produce and meat because of their lease? One example I can think of could be where Target is in a shopping center with an existing grocer in the same center. The Target at Westwood Village in West Seattle comes to mind. It is one of the first...

There are two QFC's in the Seattle metro area with fuel. One is Enumclaw and the other is in North Lynnwood.

Thank you Brian for noting that the Seafood City space is a former Mervyn's. I should also note that this will mark the return of a pharmacy since the closure of Pay 'n Save at Southcenter.

In July, Westfield Southcenter in Tukwila will be opening a new Seafood City Marketplace. This marks the return of a supermarket since the closure of Gary's Market in the old Lucky Supermarket location in the late 1980's. This will be a Filipino oriented Asian market with mainstream selections as we...

I have been in the Arctic Circle in Magna when visiting a friend. We used to have it in Seattle years ago. Love that fry sauce!!!

The decor that was shown at the beginning of this thread has been used in a couple of QFC remodels. One is at the Wallingford store in Seattle, formerly Food Giant. The other is the North Seattle QFC on NE 145th that was a former Olson's.

It is kind of a shame that Kroger didn't buy biggs. I have never been in Cincinnati but I am assuming that biggs is kind of similar to Fred Meyer. So the biggs stores with general merchandise could have been Kroger-biggs and the biggs that were just supermarkets could have been just Kroger. I know t...