And I still remember when I moved to Florida after getting out of the Army and discovered Publix. Still my favorite supermarket chain.
@GaryPoole - IGA and Stop & Shop
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Acme. Or as we called it, "ack-a-me."
@GaryPoole Yep A&P was in NY too. I was so busy in MI I don't even remember where I shopped.
@GaryPoole A&P in NJ
Bashas and Smitty's in AZ
Albertsons and Smith's in UT
Giant Eagle in PA
Food Lion, Bi-Lo, Harris Teeter, Walmart, and Piggly Wiggly in NC
@GaryPoole Also Farmer Jack's
@GaryPoole Al's Discount Supermarket in Michigan City, IN
@GaryPoole She's not really from Michigan if she didn't answer Meijer. Farmer Jack may also be acceptable. But definitely Meijer.
@DrRamey She's a Detroit girl through and through. Her dad was a professor at Wayne State.
@CinnamonGirlE @GaryPoole Grand Union, now there's an old school one.
@MidnightRider @GaryPoole
Never heard of it?
@CinnamonGirlE @GaryPoole Bet you won't forget Wegmans anytime soon, a little birdy told me you have the knowledge.
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Yes, Wegmans, on the other hand, is awesome. Nothing like that where I live.
@CinnamonGirlE @GaryPoole Yeah "Weglands" is stupid good. They have an awesome one in Fredericksburg VA where my cousin lives.
Mostly mom and pop shops, but the first "supermarket" was Food Circus.
We were a fairly large city in NY's capital district, but we were very anti-bigbox in the 60's.
@GaryPoole Loblaws
@GaryPoole Haha Publix: "you can pay more but you simply can't get less", I good for deli sandwiches which I don't eat anymore. Mine was the "hometown group" growing up. My still friend's family was half owners. He can't hear shit anymore from slicing chops on the bandsaw in the 70's. Like us at the gas station: "hearing protection? What are you some kind of sissy"?😂
A&P or National
At the A&P, we got S&H green stamps
@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole Loved those! Only seventeen more books for a swim mask and snorkel, sweeeeet!
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Mom always saved these. Loved looking at the book and wishing what to get with them.
The Sears catalog had better stuff, but the S&H catalog had *free* stuff.
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Exactly. I miss the Sears Wish book. Amazon sent something slightly similar this year. I tried to explain to my grands what the wish book used to be for us. I may as well have been trying to explain living on the moon. 😂
@CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal Still the greatest part of growing up in the '70s.
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And there were a lot of wonderful things about growing up in the 70's. This was fantastic.
My aunt used to give us her old Sears book. We'd cut out pics of furniture and spit-glue them to the sides of cardboard boxes to make houses. Then we'd cut out clothes & draw paper dolls to wear them and live in the house
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Sis and I did similarly. After Christmas was over and we would wear it ragged until the next year. Miss those days.
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Also Spiegel catalog. Just seeing all the fashion trends was exciting for Midwest girl.
@LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole
My grandma always got this catalog. Yes, loved it too.
@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole Never saw even one but it was frequently mentioned on old school "let's make a deal".
@MidnightRider @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole . I still remember "Chicago Illinois, 60609."
@TR_forester6291 @MidnightRider @LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole
That is crazy. I didn't remember, but it popped into my memory when you said it. Crazy how it was still there.
@TR_forester6291 @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole After you typed it I remembered like Cinny, good one! I remember LSMFT Lucky Strike means fine tobacco, now it's Jardiance instead of nicotine, we've come so far.
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Yes, my mother & aunts were all *very* serious about Spiegel's. Sears was "maybe" - Spiegel was "now we're getting serious"
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Yep. I circled many an item as must-have.
We had no money, so anything we could get for free was fantastic. We'd pore over that catalog - the S&H Ideabook - like it was our ticket to the middle class. 🤣
Pour. Not pore. Pour. SMH
@GaryPoole @BrazenlyLiberal and the puce ones? I have the book, but not the stamps.
Those are the ones in the pic Gary posted. S&H Green Stamps was their official name. They were *everywhere* or at least seemed to be. In Chicago, we got one stamp for every 10 cents spent.
@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole oh I remember them. I was talking about the puce stamps in The Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog, by Walt Kelly. I thought it was hilarious.
Aha. I don't remember those. I used to read Pogo every day, too. My memory isn't what it used to ... what was that again? 😃
@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole it sounds like you mean everyday in the newspaper. His newspaper columns were collected into books. In addition, there were some themed books that I don't think came from newspapers at all, and the Puce Stamp Catalog was one of those. Also, fantagraphics.com has been reissuing the newspaper strips in large hardback books that are very well done.
Interesting! My husband must have had one of those books because he says he recalls Puce Stamps.
@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole the old bx are hard to come by now.
@GaryPoole: Within walking distance of our house were Winn-Dixie and Harris-Teeter/Big-M.
Bi-Lo was across town, which wasn't more than a five-minute drive if you made all the lights, ten to twelve if you hit all three red.
My wife, who's from Michigan, said it was either A&P or Wrigley's for her.