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While searching for historical photos of San Francisco, I stumbled across Groceteria.net (which I overlooked when it was a Yahoo Pick of the Week last year). The site chronicles supermarket history and architecture and is chock full of old photos of store interiors and exteriors. Do you miss the old supermarket fonts and logos from your childhood? Revisit the ol’ A&P;, go into depth on the history of Safeway, find out what happened to old market buildings. I discovered that the Michael’s I go to in Sunnyvale used to be a Safeway, which explains the arched window treatment. There’s also supermarket news and a listing of who owns who in the consolidating market of markets. I don’t think any of my childhood supermarkets are still in existence, unless you count Stew Leonard’s, which isn’t really a supermarket as much as a food market Disneyland. But I can still remember back to when I could dangle my legs out of the shopping cart seat and watch the aisles go by.

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