as a child , where did your family do their shopping?

This thread reminded me of all the times my dad took me to Woolworth's and we ate in their eatery. I thought I was big stuff when they brought me my Salisbury Steak with the Parsley garnish. Dang, the memories. :)

Was this at a Harvest House cafeteria that was attached to a large Woolworth's?
 
Up until the late 60s the only local supermarket was a tiny Acme. It was small even by 1960s standards. It was probably built in the 1940s. In 1970 they moved into a larger space in a new shopping center. Then in a few more years Shop Rite and Pathmark opened. In town there were a few small general stores and some that specialized in meat, fish, bakery, produce, etc.

We had milk, eggs, and bread delivered to the house for years.
 
Grocery. Jewel, Cub Foods, my fav as a kid for it's name Piggly Wiggly.
Clothing. JCpenny, Sears and thrift shops.
 


I remember Jewel!
We get our milk delivered to a cold box on our porch. Didn’t as a child, but we think it’s so cool that we have this service now.
I ate at a Woolworth’s lunch counter as late as summer of 1992. In Cooperstown, NY.
 
Am I really the first to mention Pantry Pride?

Clothes came from Sears/Penneys. And I distinctly remember putting winter coats on layaway at Gaylords. We rarely went to Wilmington Dry Goods, but a trip to the Tri-State Mall was a big deal! I remember learning what sales tax was just over the state line at the Granite Run Mall in PA when the man tried to charge me 28 cents for a pack of Bubble Yum. I informed him that a pack of Bubble Yum was only 25 cents. He informed me what sales tax was for the first time in my young Delawarean life!

And once a year we would take the train to Philadelphia so I could get an Easter dress at Wanamaker’s. Dang, I sound like I’m from an old movie!
I loved the Wanamaker's Center City store. We would take the Patco Speedline into town from NJ a couple times a year. My Dad worked in Center City so we'd meet him at the Wanamaker Eagle & go eat lunch or dinner in town before going back home.
 


Safeway
Dart Drug, which became a Drug Fair and then a Peoples Drug
Kmart
Montgomery Ward
JCPenney
Sears
Hecht’s
BEST
Hancock Fabrics
and, of course.... Toys “R” Us!
 
We lived in a very small town in Iowa. For groceries, we shopped at a Mom and Pop store. Clothes came from Montgomery Wards or Sears catalog. Everything else came from Woolworths. The town had one movie theater, one nice restaurant, a Dairy Queen and an A&W. That's about it.
 
Hey RedAngie I see your from Delaware,same here. Did your mom drag you to Wilmington Dry Goods as a kid?

No. I didn't move to Delaware until 1985 after college. I grew up first in Philly and then Cherry Hill, NJ. However, I heard of Wilmington Dry Goods back then. In the early 80s a store called just "Dry Goods" opened in Cherry Hill, but I don't know if it was associated with WDG. It only lasted a few years before turning into a K-Mart.

I remember going to WDG at the Tri-State Mall a few times before it went out of business. I think a Burlington Coat Factory replaced it. Now I understand that mall is just about completely abandoned.

Am I really the first to mention Pantry Pride?

Clothes came from Sears/Penneys. And I distinctly remember putting winter coats on layaway at Gaylords. We rarely went to Wilmington Dry Goods, but a trip to the Tri-State Mall was a big deal! I remember learning what sales tax was just over the state line at the Granite Run Mall in PA when the man tried to charge me 28 cents for a pack of Bubble Yum. I informed him that a pack of Bubble Yum was only 25 cents. He informed me what sales tax was for the first time in my young Delawarean life!

And once a year we would take the train to Philadelphia so I could get an Easter dress at Wanamaker’s. Dang, I sound like I’m from an old movie!


I remember Pantry Pride, but no location was convenient to me. However, it's very possible I might have run in to pick up a few things at one somewhere along the line. I also remember Penn Fruit and Food Fair that others mentioned.

I was amazed in the latter part of the 1970s when I discovered that Delaware DIDN'T have sales tax. It's hardly the reason I moved there, but it was a nice fringe benefit. ::yes::


I loved the Wanamaker's Center City store. We would take the Patco Speedline into town from NJ a couple times a year. My Dad worked in Center City so we'd meet him at the Wanamaker Eagle & go eat lunch or dinner in town before going back home.

Going to Wanamaker's was a real treat when I was a kid. We usually went twice a year, once during the summer and again near Christmas to see the Grand Court light show. When we lived in Philly my mother and I would take a bus to the Frankford El and take that into Center City. As a teen in Cherry Hill we'd drive to the Ashland speedline station and take that.

During most visits there we'd eat lunch in the elegant Crystal Room on the 9th floor. And they had a monorail in the toy department.
 
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as a child , where did your family do their shopping?
Grocery shopping? At the Commissary on base (military family).
 
Supermarket: Purity Supreme
General: North Shore Shopping Center
School clothes: Rich's, Bradlees, R.H. Stearn, Zayre's, Caldor... If it's been out of business for more than a decade, we shopped there
My mother was a grocery checker, so her store! It was called Purity
Nah, Stop & Shop was the expensive store, and we didn't get a What's until way after I was a kid.
Stop and Shop or Shaws
 
Milgram and Kroger for groceries.

Kresge, Kmart and Venture for other stuff.
 
We lived almost across the street from a shopping plaza. Stop & Shop was in that plaza, and it's the only place my Mom ever bought groceries.
 
Vons
Thrifty Drug Store (best ice cream ever)
Pick n Save
Mervyns
Montgomery Ward
Payless Shoes
Toys"R"Us
Sam Goody/Warehouse/Virgin
 
Grew up in a small town in Ohio and the grocery store was Pangles.

Clothes were bought at Sears and Woolworth/Woolco. My uncle was Sporting Goods manager at Woolworth so that was a treat to go there.

For shoes, we would take a ride into the big city, Piqua (LOL) once a year at back-to-school time to go to the Buster Brown's shoe store.
 
Chatam (now there's a blast from the past) which later became an A&P. Then Kroger. My parents still shop at the same Kroger in my hometown.
 
I’m from a suburb of Vancouver B.C. and we have a chain called save on foods. Before it was called save on foods, it was called overwaitea - which has been around since 1915.

My grandmother bought her groceries there. My mother bought her groceries there. I buy my groceries there :rotfl:it’s actually pretty funny because the store is in the exact same spot it always has been, it’s just been renovated several times. And it’s always busy, always. Because that’s just where everyone goes, even though there are many other grocery stores in town.
 

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