LOVE IT! While renovated, that drop ceiling and layout feels like walking into the final "Food King" in Salt Lake City's Sugar House neighborhood before tear down and rebuild in the early 2000s.
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What about the Chubbuck, ID Smiths?
Isn't that an older one?
Twin Falls seems a bit larger.
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I wish I could get a hold of this blogger so he could do some forensic work on Fox Supermarkets and Food Fair Inc in the area (which was S. Cali and Nevada).storewanderer wrote: ↑February 17th, 2022, 10:28 pm I think they used the Food King name in Utah too.
This is an interesting thread post. It also theorizes something none of us have before: those CA Smiths needed to go, to allow for the mergers between Fred Meyer, Ralphs, and Smiths...
https://urbanarchaelogistics.blogspot.com/2016/
Also Palm Springs: https://urbanarchaelogistics.blogspot.com/2017/07/
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It seems like there was a churning of supermarket chains in SoCal in the 60s and 70s- new chains coming in, then leaving after a few years. Acme bought Alpha Beta, Kroger bought Market Basket, Albertsons entered and expanded, you had A&P pull out, yet operators like Food Fair, Smith’s and Fazio’s came in, briefly.
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Yep!jamcool wrote: ↑February 18th, 2022, 9:35 am It seems like there was a churning of supermarket chains in SoCal in the 60s and 70s- new chains coming in, then leaving after a few years. Acme bought Alpha Beta, Kroger bought Market Basket, Albertsons entered and expanded, you had A&P pull out, yet operators like Food Fair, Smith’s and Fazio’s came in, briefly.
Food Fair controlled Fox Markets (they had a cute cartoon fox as their logo) starting in the early 60s? Then they bought them outright. For a while they were called Fox's Food Fair and then just Food Fair.