Culver City Chain Grocery Supermarket Locations, 1931-1963 This is a list of all chain grocery locations my research has uncovered in Culver City (including some adjacent parts of Los Angeles) between 1931 and 1963, compiled from city directories, telephone books, and other sources There may be some omissions due to incomplete or missing data, etc and I welcome suggestions and corrections Please read about my methodology for more information about
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Lucky Stores History – Groceteria. com Lucky began in San Mateo county, just south of San Francisco as Peninsula Stores, with Charles Crouch (a former district manager for the Clarence Saunders Stores) at the helm Expansion to the East Bay in 1935, resulted in what investor Charles Crouch called his “lucky stores”, and the name was first used at the Berkeley store on Shattuck Avenue in 1935 The stores advertised themselves as
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Alpha-Beta – Groceteria. com Alpha Beta began as a merchandising concept rather than as a store name Albert and Hugh Gerrard had been operating food stores in Southern California since 1900 and had been early adopters of a self-service system in 1914 Their Triangle Grocerteria (at 329 West Second Street, Pasadena) began arranging groceries alphabetically in 1915, the beginning of the “Alpha Beta system” The Alpha
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A Quick History of the Supermarket - Groceteria. com The beginnings Chain grocery retailing was a phenomenon that took off around the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States, with the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (1859) and other small, regional players Grocery stores of this era tended to be small (generally less than a thousand square feet) and also focused on only one aspect of food retailing Grocers (and most of
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Augusta Chain Grocery Supermarket Locations, 1925-2024 - Groceteria. com Augusta Historical Chain Locations (Groceteria com)This is a list of all chain grocery locations my research has uncovered in the Augusta area between 1925 and 2024, compiled from city directories, telephone books, and other sources There may be some omissions due to incomplete or missing data, etc and I welcome suggestions and corrections Please read about my methodology for more