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storewanderer wrote: ↑July 13th, 2021, 10:30 pm]It is interesting Kmart pursued these NYC locations as they did not try any other locations like these to my knowledge.

They did have a downtown Philadelphia store for quite some time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fourstarc ... 6145315539

storewanderer wrote: ↑February 19th, 2021, 10:22 pmMaybe they are still working through supplies and once they run out of supplies they will shut down.

I stopped in my local Sears yesterday and actually bought something for four bucks. They’re still using 125th anniversary bags from three years ago, so you may have something there…

Sears, Friendly Center, Greensboro NC, this past Saturday. This is a large mid-1970s store that has offloaded about 20% of its square footage to Whole Foods. It was actually better stocked than I expected and there were 10-15 customers inside. But still, the recruitment poster seems like a cruel jok...

Harvey’s was indeed formerly owned by Delhaize. Southeastern has run it as a “value“ brand, and a good chunk of the stores are former Bi-Lo locations.

Harris Teeter is closing all stores at 9 starting tomorrow "to focus on cleaning, replenishment, and the well-being of our valued associates." It's not quite as crazy in my part of NC (yet) with outages mostly limited to bread, paper products, and disinfecting/cleaning supplies. But meat a...

Harris Teeter closing a Greensboro store by the end of March Not surprising. This former Kmart opened as a massive Kroger (the largest in the state IIRC) in 1997 and was taken over by Harris Teeter in 1999 when kroger left the market. HT reduced the footprint and has not really updated the store in...

According to groceteria.com, the current building was constructed as an Albertons in 1999, but this article states it opened as a Lucky in 2002. It was planned as a Lucky before the 1999 Albertsons/American Stores merger but it definitely opened as Albertsons. Lucky had disappeared as a banner by 2...

Despite what the original article said, there apparently was a bankruptcy filing;

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/new ... 671360002/

No bankruptcy filing.

https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail- ... t-business

IIRC Pak 'n Save came into the fold when Safeway purchased the small Brentwood chain in NorCal in 1983.