I'm so desperate to go to Albertsons

Anonus · 2016-11-23 04:13:46

but it is gone now :<

or rather, it's been renovated and rebranded "Safeway"

Klinotaxis · 2016-11-23 04:15:59

It's ok, it sucked.

Anonus · 2016-11-23 04:28:45

no it didn't

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 04:31:31

there is an abandoned, mold-infested building in the center of town that was about two years ago a PathMark grocery store.

now it just sits there, a symbol for all that is wrong with Carbon County and all that is wrong with America.

Sorry, seemed relevant to the thread.

Imipolex G · 2016-11-23 04:34:32

oh man, retail decay

Anonus · 2016-11-23 04:36:06

i guess nobody else here has fond childhood memories of the Albertsons chain

Anonus · 2016-11-23 04:36:16

but yeah why is the PathMark decaying?

Salix Babylonika · 2016-11-23 04:37:08

Mold problem they didn't have the money to fix, no one's bought the building yet and the problem's only gotten worse over time, so it just sits there.

The parking lot is a popular skating hangout. Because of course it is.

Klinotaxis · 2016-11-23 04:39:32

Yes it did. It did suck.

Anonus · 2016-11-23 04:42:22

Jane said:
Mold problem they didn't have the money to fix, no one's bought the building yet and the problem's only gotten worse over time, so it just sits there.

aww :(

Jane said:
The parking lot is a popular skating hangout. Because of course it is.

Life after death!

Klinotaxis said:
Yes it did. It did suck.

what sucked about Albertsons?

LOAD Cherry · 2016-11-23 05:16:14

I've been to Albertson's. It was the same thing as Jewel-Osco in the midwest.

Anonus · 2016-11-23 05:21:47

well they do own Jewel-Osco

Anonus · 2016-11-23 05:22:14

anyway all the Albertsons around here either closed or were converted to Safeways once Cerberus Capital Management bought Safeway

Anonus · 2016-11-23 05:25:38

it was part of muh childhood

eriophora zia · 2016-11-23 05:27:35

I grew up with both Safeway and Albertson's. I honestly prefer Safeway... Safeway tended to have better prices, equivalent products, and you get gas rewards. Win-win.

Anonus · 2016-11-23 05:31:14

I grew up with both

This is the Safeway that used to be near me in 2014

Across the street from it is a Walmart Neighborhood Market that used to be an Albertsons

Tre · 2016-11-23 05:34:50

I loved me some Albertsons, I associated it with my grandma because she had it down in Florida.

Same thing with Publix, though now that we have them nearby it's starting to lose that luster a bit.

Anonus · 2016-11-23 05:36:25

Albertsons buddies ^_^

There are apparently only three left in Florida :<

Tre · 2016-11-23 05:43:01

Anonus said:
Cerberus Capital Management

do you ever look at the name of a company and go "damn, how evil did they try to sound?"

Imipolex G · 2016-11-23 05:44:45

because three heads are better than one

Anonus · 2016-11-23 05:44:48

They also drove the last nail into Chrysler's coffin, before it went bankrupt and ended up being snapped up by Fiat

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 05:46:21

Tre said:
I loved me some Albertsons, I associated it with my grandma because she had it down in Florida.

Same thing with Publix, though now that we have them nearby it's starting to lose that luster a bit.

The staff at the Publix near where we lived in Florida were lovely folks. I think TNS worked at one at one point, or does, and has said good things about them overall.

Anonus · 2016-11-23 05:48:26

Centie went to Publix in Georgia in 2011

I may or may not have been in the vicinity of one when I visited Florida in 2005

thenamelesssamurai · 2016-11-23 06:05:22

Sredni Vashtar said:

Tre said:
I loved me some Albertsons, I associated it with my grandma because she had it down in Florida.

Same thing with Publix, though now that we have them nearby it's starting to lose that luster a bit.
The staff at the Publix near where we lived in Florida were lovely folks. I think TNS worked at one at one point, or does, and has said good things about them overall.

Still do.

Bee · 2016-11-23 06:07:13

AFAIK there's still one in my hometown.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-11-23 06:07:47

I thought so but I did not want to be presumptuous. >->;

Calica · 2016-11-23 09:33:15

I went to an Albertsons once when I first came to LA

glennmagusharvey · 2016-11-23 15:44:35

Anonus said:
i guess nobody else here has fond childhood memories of the Albertsons chain

$1 for a 5-day rental of any NES game

some of the cartridges didn't work (including Mega Man 6), disappointingly, but those that did included Mega Man 4, Mega Man 5, Paperboy 2, Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Lost in wackyland, Mario's Time Machine, Mario Is Missing!, and various others

glennmagusharvey · 2016-11-23 15:48:24

these days the local supermarkets and similar stores are:
* Publix
* Winn-Dixie
* Sedano's
* Bravo
* Foodtown (non-chain? Asian groceries)
* PK Oriental Mart (there are several of these with the same name but I don't think it's actually a chain)
* Target
* Walmart

I'm so desperate to go to Albertsons

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