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In June 1967, Vons completed the sale of Shopping Bag Food Stores to E.F. MacDonald. This company later bought 31 A&P supermarkets in Los Angeles, converting them to Shopping Bag. In 1972, MacDonald sold the supermarket chain to Fisher Foods, which rebranded the stores as Fazio's Shopping Bag. In 1978, all stores were sold to Albertsons. [1]
The store competed downtown with smaller, local Long Beach department stores like Marti and Wise Cos. as well as Sears and Ward's, all of which opened large new stores downtown in 1928-9. [8] In the early 1950s Lakewood Center would provide competition with May Company California and Los Altos Center , with The Broadway for the suburban shopper.
Fifth Street Store: Walker's (Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego), main store in downtown Los Angeles was also known as the Fifth Street Store since it was located at the corner of Fifth and Broadway, main store was founded in 1905 as Steele, Faris, Walker Co., later became Muse, Faris, Walker Co., and then finally Walker Inc. in 1924; opened ...
Fedco had several locations in Southern California including: Van Nuys (Los Angeles), 14920 Raymer Street, store #1, replaced by Target (1956-1999) [7] La Cienega (Los Angeles), 3535 South La Cienega Boulevard, store #2, replaced by Target (1961-1999) [8] San Bernardino, 570 South Mt. Vernon Avenue, store #3 replaced by El Super (1968-1999) [9]
In 1997, Consolidated Stores Corporation bought out the remaining MacFrugals stores for $995 million (~$1.75 billion in 2023) in stock. [1] In 2002, Big Lots (formerly Consolidated Stores) converted them into the Big Lots brand. [2] in 2020, Pic ‘N’ Save was revived as a bargain store, as of 2023, it has two locations in United States
White Front was a chain of discount department stores in California and the western United States from 1959 through the mid-1970s. The stores were noted for the architecture of their store fronts which was an enormous, sweeping archway with the store name spelled in individual letters fanned across the top.
Unimart was a discount retailer in the Greater Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas in the 1960s. Its locations variously became Two Guys, Gemco, and FedMart.Unimart was owned by Food Giant Inc. until it merged in 1967 with Vornado, the owner of Two Guys, which quickly converted Unimart stores to Two Guys.
Hartfield-Zodys was an American retail corporation begun in 1960. It operated the Hartfield chain of women's ready-to-wear apparel in the Los Angeles area, and starting in 1960, the Zodys chain of discount retail stores (1960–1986), which operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan.