I see the liquor license for Thrifty at 31091 Mission came from 1976. I wonder if the store started as something else. It also seems to have a normal tile floor instead of the nicer flooring Thrifty often had. It was sort of like a mini Thrifty, but not small enough to be a Thrifty Jr. The remaining San Mateo Thrifty Jr. is about half this size.norcalriteaidclerk wrote: ↑August 15th, 2022, 4:34 pm
Speaking of the Puget Sound,a prior version of this listing actually listed a closed store at 28200 Pacific Highway South in Kent for sale(the property was owned outright and not leased).I wonder if this was originally Payless or Pay-n-Save.
Back to the Golden State,it appears that Hayward/31091 Mission was relatively undersized for an old Thrifty(just 11,000 square feet,5K smaller than even 5712 Folsom in its original configuration).Then again,its parent center(Fairway Park)was built in the mid-to-late 1950's.
Kent is about 23k square feet. Seems too small for Payless. Maybe the Tacoma Payless did smaller stores than the CA Payless and this store goes way back in years?
Very difficult but if you find the closed store (not pharmacy) listing on Google Maps you can see into the store. It seems to have a strange striped wall interior, with odd font wall signs. Osco had an interior like this but this doesn't look like the Osco version to me.
Payless Northwest did at one time buy some Osco Stores in WA in 1987 (separate from the 1992 ID/CO/UT deal), but I am not sure where those were. I wonder if this was one of those.
There is a much better positioned Bartell nearby. This isn't the greatest neighborhood, the Fred Meyer nearby is one of the lousiest Fred Meyers I've seen.