Skaggs got swallowed up into Albertsons in 1991 (there was a strange year or so where all the former Skaggs stores in Dallas were branded Jewel-Osco) which turned Albertsons into a big player in DFW through the 1990s and 2000s. We also had Winn-Dixie (who had acquired Buddies to enter the Dallas market), Skaggs Alpha Beta, and Albertsons, although none of those three had the same expansive footprint as the three listed above. The 1980s “greenhouse” stores were always nice inside, but there were some pretty hair-raising older Kroger stores around town, too. – Kroger: much like today, these were hit or miss depending on the part of the town and how much the store manager cared. In my hometown (Carrollton) one of our Safeways became a Kroger, one became an AutoZone, and one sat empty for about eight years before becoming a gym. – Safeway: seemed like they were on every corner in the 1980s, until one day they weren’t! They left the market in (I believe) 1987, and most of their locations were either picked up by competitors or turned to other uses. Cannot possibly a Tom Thumb store in those neighborhoods today! Accordingly, it’s interesting to look on this map and see they had once stores in South Oak Cliff, West Dallas and Pleasant Grove. When Tom Thumb closed a store, it usually meant the neighborhood was starting to turn south. – Tom Thumb: then regarded as the “nicest” chain, with stores located mostly in affluent areas. When I was growing up in the 1980s, our big chains were: Thanks for putting this together! This is really comprehensive (just a shame it doesn’t also include some of the close-in suburbs, like Richardson, Irving, Carrollton, Garland – although I know they weren’t listed in city directories.) I was born in 1981, so I missed the days of A&P in Dallas – but I remember Safeway very well. Tom Thumb seems to have operated as a co-op or franchise from the late 1930s to about 1960, but there also were company-owned stores starting in 1948 (if not earlier) with the purchase of Toro Supermarkets.7-11, Cabells, Mister M, Quickie, Pedigo’s, U-Tote-Em, Schepps). I have not included chains that were essentially convenience or “dairy” stores (e.g.A&P operated A-Mart discount stores at the same time. Kroger also seems to have tested a discount format named Bi Lo around 1970.Kroger acquired the Wyatt stores in 1958, but did not rebrand them until sometime between 19.The later Piggly Wiggly stores belonged to an unrelated franchisee. Safeway and Piggly Wiggly were co-owned in the 1930s.I have gone with what was listed in the city directories and have made them as consistent as possible. There seems to be very little logic as to how the directional indicators are applied to Dallas streets.Shopping center addresses have been mapped to their street addresses as much as possible.Dallas is quite fascinating if for no other reason than the fact that it is one of the few places where A&P, Kroger, and Safeway all competed pretty aggressively in the 1960s and 1970s.View and download a copy of this location spreadsheet via Google Sheets. It is generated through a live Google Spreadsheet so it reflects the latest information I have. This is a list of all known chain grocery addresses in Dallas between 19, compiled from city directories, telephone books, and other sources.
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