Aisle Be Seeing You
Grocery stores today all feel strangely familiar: the same produce section, the same self-checkouts and the same quick milk run that somehow costs $87.
In the 70s, America was packed with national and regional chains that were huge in their day. Today, remembering five of them may be harder than finding someone willing to open another checkout lane.
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Alpha Beta
If you grew up in California or the Southwest, Alpha Beta probably felt as normal as breathing. The chain was a major presence throughout the 70s, and its name had that wonderfully strange supermarket quality that made perfect sense at the time and considerably less now…