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storewanderer wrote: ↑March 31st, 2023, 12:45 am First closure out of Save Mart in a while.

This store was awful. Former Alpha Beta. No bakery or deli. Very outdated. I am shocked a store like this lasted this long in this area. It hardly had any business. ASC Lucky spent almost no money on this (it did not get the mid 90's remodel most ASC Lucky units received). Albertsons spent zero on this. Save Mart did the conversion repaint.

The one strange thing about this store was at some point, the space next to the store (not sure what it started as) got a Sav-On pharmacy. This space was separate from the store (despite they shared a wall) and it had Sav-On decor inside. However under Albertsons it was considered like an in-store pharmacy (receipt said Albertsons, etc.). It was open limited hours and it housed drug/HBA/cards so if you wanted those items outside the short hours of that space you were out of luck as none of that stuff was housed inside the main store. I'm not sure how this was handled after Save Mart closed the pharmacy operation.

pseudo3d wrote: ↑March 31st, 2023, 8:20 pm

storewanderer wrote: ↑March 31st, 2023, 12:45 am First closure out of Save Mart in a while.

This store was awful. Former Alpha Beta. No bakery or deli. Very outdated. I am shocked a store like this lasted this long in this area. It hardly had any business. ASC Lucky spent almost no money on this (it did not get the mid 90's remodel most ASC Lucky units received). Albertsons spent zero on this. Save Mart did the conversion repaint.

The one strange thing about this store was at some point, the space next to the store (not sure what it started as) got a Sav-On pharmacy. This space was separate from the store (despite they shared a wall) and it had Sav-On decor inside. However under Albertsons it was considered like an in-store pharmacy (receipt said Albertsons, etc.). It was open limited hours and it housed drug/HBA/cards so if you wanted those items outside the short hours of that space you were out of luck as none of that stuff was housed inside the main store. I'm not sure how this was handled after Save Mart closed the pharmacy operation.

I've seen some historic references to "Lucky Sav-On" but I'm guessing that they were side-by-side combos and not true combo stores. I know that Jewel-Osco was not initially a true combined store until later, though some combined stores were fully integrated (Skaggs Albertsons, Tom Thumb-Page, etc.)

rwsandiego wrote: ↑April 1st, 2023, 11:08 am
There were a couple Lucky SavOns in San Diego County. One looked like a Jewel Osco that had a Lucky interior (Can't recall whether it was in Oceanside, Carlsbad, or Vista).

dcpeachy wrote: ↑April 3rd, 2023, 4:41 pm Albuquerque and Santa Fe had Lucky-SavOn stores that were conversions of Jewel-Osco stores when they decided to rebrand the stores briefly prior to the buyout, at which time most of them became Albertsons-SavOn Pharmacy. From what I can see, some of the stores have the look of an integrated store, while others looked more like the Montana Buttrey-Osco stores, which were physically in the same building, but had separate operations.

jamcool wrote: ↑April 3rd, 2023, 11:46 pm

dcpeachy wrote: ↑April 3rd, 2023, 4:41 pm Albuquerque and Santa Fe had Lucky-SavOn stores that were conversions of Jewel-Osco stores when they decided to rebrand the stores briefly prior to the buyout, at which time most of them became Albertsons-SavOn Pharmacy. From what I can see, some of the stores have the look of an integrated store, while others looked more like the Montana Buttrey-Osco stores, which were physically in the same building, but had separate operations.

Those NM stores began as Skaggs Alpha Beta stores