Groceteria

Nature is healing.

1940 grocery map of Worcester

In 1940, Worcester, Mass. is served by 32 Community Stores, 27 First National Stores, 17 A&Ps, 5 Pay'n Takit Stores (not part of the Safeway-owned chain), 4 Red & White Stores, and 3 Clover Farm stores.

More to come...

Big new scanner

My new work toy (it cost more than my last car).

Just took out the trash and "wind is making it feel colder" is the understatement of the week. But at least we don't have snow.

Loblaws, downtown North Bay ON.

Loblaws, Northgate, North Bay ON.

Dominion, Nipissing Plaza, North Bay ON.

A&P, downtown North Bay ON.

NEW: North Bay ON chain geocery/supermarket locations, 1924-2026. www.groceteria.com/place/ontari...

You'd think after all these years, "grocery" would be a word I could type without issues...

Loblaws, downtown North Bay ON.

Loblaws, Northgate, North Bay ON.

Dominion, Nipissing Plaza, North Bay ON.

A&P, downtown North Bay ON.

NEW: North Bay ON chain geocery/supermarket locations, 1924-2026. www.groceteria.com/place/ontari...

I have very diverse tastes in music, but "bro-country" pinches that same nerve as "smooth jazz" and "adult alternative."

I like my favorite local diner a lot more now that they seem to have gotten rid of whoever kept changing the Muzak over to the bro-country channel.

Thinking about the a&w burger family

They're still much more of a cohesive family unit in Canada.

"Seek sex fiend in Los Angeles swank suburb"

Just me or does this sound more like a personal ad than a news headline?

I think some of the older stores were still operating as some variation of Setzer's Food Fair or Food Fair-Setzer's at this point (1962), four years after Food Fair acquired the Setzer's Super Stores chain. This was probably the first new-build Food Fair in the Daytona area.

Food Fair grand opening ad from 1962

NEW: Daytona Beach chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1924-2026. www.groceteria.com/place/florid...

I don't even want to think about how poorly DVD-RWs have held up.

If you have important or irreplaceable things stored on glorified coasters like these, I strongly recommend transferring them to something more stable if you still can.

Seriously, this is a big preservation concern. I'm doing a project at work now salvaging photos from computer-burned CDs. Probably 15% of them won't open at all, and the ones that do work have a significant number of corrupted files.

DVD-R from CompUSA

There will soon come a time when 2006 will no longer exist because the entire year was stored on crappy computer-burned CDs and DVDs.

Triple S Groceteria ad from 1941.

Coming (maybe) tomorrow, a wintertime look at Daytona Beach.

Why RFK Jr thinks keto diets cure schizophrenia

Because he's an idiot?

Chicken jambalaya, okra and tomatoes, and black beans. It's a little too early for Mardi Gras so we'll call it Dimanche Gras. Or just dinner…

While you're at it, can you come up with some consumer protections for @actblueorg.bsky.social text spammers like yourself?

Aldi in waiting, Chapel Hill NC.

Blanche Taylor Moore - Wikipedia

For the record, Blanche Taylor Moore is not really dead. She'll be 93 on Tuesday and is the oldest woman (maybe the oldest person) on North Carolina's Death Row. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche...

A&P, Burlington NC.

Big Star, later Colonial. Burlington NC.

Also in downtown Burlington, an A&P and a Big Star/Colonial side by side.

Kroger, downtown Burlington NC. I always refer to this one as the "Blanche Taylor Moore Memorial Kroger" because I'm pretty sure it's one of the ones she worked at before going to jail for some very serious murdering. I like it because there aren't a lot of this prototype still this intact.

Heart

On this festive day, please know that I will always Heart you.

Brightwood Inn, Whitsett N C.

Elvis ate here.

Any new work initiatives launched today will be codenamed JASON.

All in all, this is a completely unremarkable store.