I was actually talking about the mid-1980s. In Boise, in a period of only a couple years in the mid-1980s, the Skaggs stores were renamed Osco. All of the Buttrey stores in Boise and the rest of Idaho received all new signage as the Osco name basically shifted from Buttrey to the Skaggs stores. Worth noting is that I remember visiting a Buttrey in Casper, Wyoming during this time and saw that the Osco name was also gone there as well. I thought that the Osco name disappeared from the Buttrey stores altogether at that point.pseudo3d wrote:Buttery lost the Osco name because in 1990, American Stores (which owned the Osco name at the time), spun off the chain. It wasn't related to the purchase of American Stores in 1999.Super S wrote:I always found it interesting that Albertsons didn't try to resurrect the Osco name in Boise when they tried the standalone Sav-On stores. It was previously associated with Buttrey, but when the Skaggs stores became Osco, Buttrey lost the Osco name.
Noting how quickly the standalone Sav-On stores in Boise vanished, it gives the impression that Albertsons doesn't really want to be in the standalone drug store business...I don't see them taking over Rite Aid. I also don't see them combining where Rite Aid is next to Albertsons or Safeway. Although many examples exist where the stores are side by side, in recent years they have moved or simply closed many of those locations. Some strip mall owners have the final say in what they could do not to mention local zoning laws.
The Skaggs stores that became Osco eventually became PayLess, while Albertsons took over the remaining Buttrey stores in Boise. This had all happened by 1988 when I moved from Boise.
