We had several Red Robin Convenience Food Stores in my area of Southern New Jersey in the 1970's.

This was the beginning of the basement section of the upper car order belt at ex-A&P store 386.

This is the Hotel Cabrillo in downtown San Pedro, not too far away from the waterfront.

With the bodega and saloon, this just seems like the perfect sailor's quarters.

and other stuff to make a great salad

Strange Co-op logo - it uses the 1968 oblong shape, the 1994 COOP style of logo but has a standard typeface instead of the custom designed one (how sad am I!)

Oakham Co-op foodstore visit, 2013

Ley Supermarket food store and retail store on the 2nd floor in Puerto Vallarta Mexico Nov 2011

LEY

362 Juarez Street,

between Chile and Uraguay Streets,

in the northern part of 'El Centro' (Downtown)

Photo

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mexico

Nov 2011

Aerial View from the APEX Balloon Ride.

The market for Afro Caribbean, intercontinental foods and beauty products must be strong in Benwell as directly opposite Kenichi foodstore is another seemingly Nigerian owned store, Chima (The same misspelling of shopfront words and virtually the same product line might suggest they're owned by the same poeple?). Again, a temporary paper sign is stuck to the window in (misspelt) Polish advertising 'Slovakia-Czech Polskie' products; once again this indicates that a significant Eastern European migrant population is resident in Benwell.

This was the beginning of the basement section of the upper car order belt at ex-A&P store 386.

Outside St Johns Chapel co-op foodstore, old trolley with the 1968-1993 co-op logo

Last (!!) photo in this series. A second shot of the exterior; this one gives a better glimpse of the protruding mansard facade which was added within ten years of this store's opening.

at the opening of the new Co-op foodstore, Hill Top, West Bromwich, November 2011

Aldi USA

Serangoon Central, Singapore

Fujifilm X-E1

Leica 35mm Summicron f2.0 ASPH

The building which was formerly the Elisabethville foodstore, now a garage.

Aerial View from the APEX Above & Beyond Balloon Ride.

Attractive canal-side living on New North road, N1, the site of Michael Balcon's 1924 Gainsborough Studios which inter alia made Hitchcock films. These flats were erected in 2004 on the site of the old studios, which had utilised a former railway power station.

There is a Hackney Council brown plaque on the side of the building. Read about all the famous films made on this site here

Today's walk.

Provigo at Maisonneuve Shopping Centre / Centre d'Achats Maisonneuve.

The Old Town (Nice Vieux) offers a great choice on different foodstores. This is a very large one. Handwritten - on the yellow board to the left - "LE SANGLIER EST ARRIVE" - and you can see the sanglier (= wild boar) hanging down in the front. Lots of special offers for the christmas dinner. Venison is 13.90 Euros/kg. The cocks on the right still have the tail-feathers, what is a sign for the best qualitiy.

This cake was made to be eaten at a party of a support group for a young green parliament candidate. Many of the good things that all idealists love, are featured on the texts of the cake: demokracy, welfare, world peace, Vegetukku (a local vegan foodstore), architects, urban density, bilinguality and others.

After the war, the Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-op opened a pre-fabricated grocery and butchery shop at Sidemoor, Bromsgrove- the store was an early purpose built self-service shop and is seen here in 2004, completely closed down. The business was franchised out for a short while but that didn't work out and I think the building may now be an off-licence of some sort. Note my old car alongside.....!

St Ann's Gate, Manchester city centre.

A new superstore built at the corner of Market Street and St Ann's Gate, due to the destruction of its original store by the Manchester IRA bombing of 1996. The new building is claimed to be the largest M&S Store in the world, and has become the company's flagship store for the new millennium. Famed for its basic quality clothing, excellent foodstore and recent departure into home furnishing.

www.manchester2002-uk.com/shops/department.html

American, Mexican and German beer

Solberg Airport, Readington NJ

The home deliveries are piling up inside this small Provigo store in Montreal. This store never had parcel pickup, but they use car order / commande à l'auto bins for home delivery service.

Woman shopping in food store.

Aerial View from the APEX Above & Beyond Balloon Ride.

Kirkwood brand (same in Costco)

Ann's Bakery & Deli is located at 2158 W. Chicago Ave. in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood.

Ley Supermarket food store and retail store on the 2nd floor in Puerto Vallarta Mexico Nov 2011

LEY

362 Juarez Street,

between Chile and Uraguay Streets,

in the northern part of 'El Centro' (Downtown)

Photo

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mexico

Nov 2011

The old Gospel Oak pub recently opened as a new Co-op foodstore, 2011

Aldi USA

A Gallon of Vitamin D Milk is $3.89 at my ALDI FOODS Store!

A bygone era: Former parcel pickup / commande à l'auto window at this Montreal Provigo. A section of rollers are still in the store, which is probably where the home deliveries are stored.

A bygone era: Former parcel pickup / commande à l'auto window at this Montreal Provigo. A section of rollers are still in the store, which is probably where the home deliveries are stored.

Serangoon Central, Singapore

Fujifilm X-E1

Leica 35mm Summicron f2.0 ASPH

Aerial View from the APEX Balloon Ride.

Kris and I went to Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia for a work-related meeting. This is a photo taken through the window of an abandoned gas station we passed along the way. That's an inflatable Fruitopia bottle, and not a standard-sized glass one. You perspective is not messed up.

A bygone era: Former parcel pickup / commande à l'auto window at this Montreal Provigo. A section of rollers are still in the store, which is probably where the home deliveries are stored.