Two more SW Washington Albertsons locations to close

[storewanderer]

I think the current closure in Tacoma is a new (rebuilt) store that is only about 10 years old? I agree conditions were terrible, but it was a pretty new store...

Here in Reno we have mostly 1992-1997 build stores. The 1992 store got a low budget remodel by Albertsons around 2003 (new tile and refrigeration in fresh departments, new floor in produce/bakery/deli areas, moved floral up front, and redid the walls) but the other locations never got any capital since the stores were shuffled from Intermountain to NorCal Division around 2005 and neither division spent money when the time would have been right. Then Save Mart took over in 2008 and repainted the walls but did nothing else and to this day has done nothing else. The stores look terrible. They all need remodeling. Oddly, that one store from 1992 that got the low budget remodel by Albertsons looks noticeably better than the other 1992-1997 stores; it is cleaner, the floor is in better shape, and the fresh departments are in better shape.

[Super S]

Can we all look back on Albertson's Pacific Northwest-area dominance, in its prime, the 1980s? I also mean to ask you this in terms of any pictures you may have of these stores then.

Albertson's operated these stores in January 1987 in the Portland (OR) area of the Pacific Northwest:

SUPER STORES
17120 SE Powell Blvd. (opened 1981; closed 2008)
2950 NE Hogan Dr. (at Stark St.), Gresham (opened 1983; closed 2008)
8155 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard (Greenway Center) (opened 1983)
6055 SW 185th Ave. (at Farmington Rd.), Aloha (opened 1984)
12102 SE Division St. (opened 1986; closed January 2012)

OTHER STORES
1350 NE 122nd Ave. (opened 1959; closed 2006)
4405 NE Cully Blvd. (opened 1959)
5415 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. (Raleigh Hills) (opened 1960)
2605 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (Cedar Hills) (opened 1960)
909 N Killingsworth St. (opened 1960; sold 1989)
250 SE 10th St. (Hillsboro) (opened 1964)
610 NE 122nd Ave. (at Glisan St.) (opened 1964; moved to 451 NE 122nd Ave. in August 1987)
3232 SE Harrison St. (Milwaukie) (opened 1964; moved to Milwaukie Marketplace, 10830 SE Oak St. in 1989)
16199 SW Boones Ferry Rd. (Lake Grove) (opened 1965)
940 SE 39th Ave. (at Belmont St.) (opened 1966; sold 1989)
4715 SE 39th Ave. (at Holgate Blvd.) (opened 1966; sold 1989)
12060 SW Main St. (Tigard) (opened 1976)
15810 SE McLoughlin Blvd. (Oak Grove) (opened 1977; closed January 2004)
2323 SE 82nd Ave. (at Division St.) (opened 1978; moved to 4140 SE 82nd Ave. 1997, closed 2005)
1809 Molalla Ave., Oregon City (Southridge Center) (opened 1980; moved to Berryhill Shopping Center, 19007 S Beavercreek Rd. 1990)

Based on the amount of stores closed or sold to other companies, Albertson's really needs to get tough here, competitively, in the Portland/Vancouver area.

Anyway, the Super Stores (sized 35,000 sq. ft. or more) were a big deal: they stocked many other goods beyond food, such as housewares, small appliances and home electronics. They seemed to follow Safeway's own "superstore" concept that that chain pioneered around 1976.

~Ben

The store at 12060 SW Main St. in Tigard is currently a Value Village thrift store. I have no idea when Albertsons closed this location, but can say Value Village has been there for quite some time. That store shares the strip mall with a Rite Aid, which had a well-preserved, unremodeled PayLess interior until recently.

And the store that moved to 451 NE 122nd? Not sure if the original building was demolished, but that address appears to be the edge of the parking lot for the current Safeway store, where the current KFC sits. I want to say that Safeway went up in the mid-late 1990s (along with the Target which is now closed) but I do not remember what building was there previously. I thought the Safeway was a new build for them.

[Super S]

Here is an update on the Fourth Plain location, which has a current picture, and talks about the effect on the strip mall it is in:

http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jan/ ... ain-plaza/

Seems like this could be a good location for Grocery Outlet, mentioned in that article, but if memory serves me correctly they built a new building from the ground up, and were once located on a portion of the land where the Fourth Plain Plaza now sits. The same building was later occupied by Bird Boys, which was the original tenant in the plaza in what is now the ReTails Thrift Store, which also operated for a time as a True value Hardware store and Habitat For Humanity ReStore.

That Albertsons never seemed to do really well, but a lower priced grocery store might work there.