Groceteria

Newspaper ad showing A&P locations around Binghamton NY in 1965.

Putting Binghamton on hold for a bit because reasons but please enjoy these lovely A&P photos.

I never know whether to love it or hate it when I finally manage to make something work correctly but I have no idea whatsover just how the hell I did it.

Loblaws grand opening ad

Next stop: Binghamton NY. It's looking more interesting than I expected, though I can't go any further back than 1950.

Sigh. It's just another one of those apocalyptic signs we're facing on a daily basis. You used to be able to confidently walk into any diner or cafeteria and assume you could get a full turkey dinner at any time.

I blame COVID.

Thanks. My annnual low-key observance of Canadian Thanksgiving (even though I'm not Canadian) has just become one of my weird little traditions over the years. And I get grumpy when diners won't let me have my way...

At least I got pie. There's that…

Yeah, I know this is the very definition of a first world problem. I don't care. It's one of my little eccentricities.

The damned sandwich

I was already disappointed Because I got screwed out of my annual Thanksgiving trip to Canada due to work stuff. Now I find that my standby diner no longer does turkey dinner as a daily thing, so I had to settle for a crummy open-face sandwich here on the wrong side of the border. Sigh.

Wishing my Canadian friends a happy Thanksgiving!

Slidell LA supermarket map, 1964-2003

A quick and not terribly exciting one for your Sunday night: Slidell LA chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1964-2003. www.groceteria.com/place/us-lou...

Customers and service / Clients et service à la clientèle "Life is for service." – Fred Rogers See also: Help with your research ----- « Vivre, c’est servir. » – Fred Rogers Voir aussi : Aide à la recherche

New Flickr album from Library and Archives Canada spotlighting retail customer service. flickr.com/photos/28853...

Food lion "extra low prices" pencil

I have decided to appropriate this surprisingly old pencil I found in a conference room at work.

Today, Saul Zabar passed away. For more than 70 years, he was the principal owner of the legendary Zabar’s market in #NYC. This #NYTMCollection image captures the Zabar’s storefront in 1957, twenty-three years into its time in business and seven years into Saul Zabar’s tenure.

The right message for the right week.

Probably didn't help that I was watching a lot of histories of ITV franchises last night. Because I do things like that...

YouTube video by HistoryOnToast British Supermarkets that VANISHED From High Streets

Going through one of those phases where my recommendations from YouTube are becoming very British again. youtu.be/1zAka-TjgWw?...

Many packages of assorted Impossible brand fake meat

Impossibly good deals at the Kroger up in Martinsville today (sorry…)

Interior view of a grocery store in 1942, showing a display of various brands of coffee.

Market interior https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/109546

Nu Rite Way Food Center, 1970 The Nu Rite Way Food Center is located on 3965 N Mississippi Avenue. Portland City Archives, AP-71950 Click here to view the image on Efiles.

Originally a Pay'n Takit/Safeway for those of you who care about such things. vintageportland.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/n...

A productive week, which shows that I've been a giant pile of stress all week, and this is what has kept me sane.

I don't understand how people without hobbies (obsessions?) cope...

North King County WA supermarket map

Last of the Seattle/King County suburbs for a while: Shoreline, Bothell, and Lake Forest Park, 1970-1983. www.groceteria.com/place/us-was...

Sears Fall and Winter 1975 catalog

I've always been a fall and winter sort...

Temperature 55F

The long misery of spring and summer is almost over and the temperature is trending in the right direction at last.

The Art of Bob's Burgers (TM) Amazon.com: The Art of Bob's Burgers (TM): 9780789344328: Bouchard, Loren: Books

And now there's this. The Art of Bob's Burgers (TM) www.amazon.com/dp/078934432...

Interior view of the bakery department of Hattem's Market at 4277 So. Western Ave., on December 17, 1927, at its opening.

Hattem's Market interior https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/109433

Limited data, so short timeframes on all these. I hope to expand when I can.

Bellevue/Kirkland WA supermarket map

NEW: The Seattle suburbs continue with Bellevue and Kirkland (including Mercer Island and Redmond), 1966-1980. www.groceteria.com/place/us-was...

This one is now updated to include Burien. www.groceteria.com/place/us-was...

I've always been a cheap date...