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I love the decidedly "western" directions on this sign. I also find it interesting that they spec out the 5 sizes of coal for sale.
September 8, 2023.
A November 2011 photo of College Town Shopping Center in Glassboro, NJ. The original portion, on the left of this scene, was built in 1965. The Kmart was Grant City until 1976 and became Kmart later that year. This section was built in the early 1970s. In the distance is Acme Market, since closed and now LA Fitness. This was originally Penn Fruit Supermarket with a neighboring co-owned Gaudio's Garden Center. It originally had the same facade as Grant City/Kmart, but was modified by Acme. At the very far end was a W.T. Grant variety store which was replaced by the Grant City. This was later Grossman's Lumber and now Pep Boys Auto.
I've just completed a commissioned build of some retail park units using the Kingsway Models RPU kit. Using two kits has produced two half relief units and one full depth unit.
Each unit has two store fronts.
The two kits provide two car park areas which are joined together here.
Once upon a time, this is what retailing looked like. Traffic in malls had been declining for years. And then a pandemic hit, which completely emptied stores and malls–for a time. Several large retailers declared bankruptcy. Consumers eventually emerged but many had developed new shopping habits. Even afterward, visits further eroded at these stores.
"No matter what, consumers need to feel the product," said the retailers at the time. "They hunger for the social experience of shopping together. They need to try on outfits, eat together," said the executives. "We're here to stay."
In the end, the large traditional investments of big-box retailers ended up trapping them.
Day 73/365
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From July, a ban on plastic shopping bags will apply in Queensland. Better late than never. We're ready!
According to both batterymillx’s in-progress Target Store List and this CNN article, the Poplar/240 Target opened in March 2009, which makes it the newest Target store of any of the Memphis-area locations. (Olive Branch is the next newest, having opened in July 2008.) My photos of the store come from a visit on January 4, 2018. This stour was unplanned, and thus isn’t too terribly substantive; if I’m remembering things correctly, we were simply killing some time here, after arriving at the shopping center so I could take some pics of the vacant Staples store nearby. But sometimes the best stours are unplanned, so I hope you’ll enjoy this one!
Target // 5959 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38119
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
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WEEK 13 – Mansfield, OH, Target (IV)
(cont.) Another reason is simply because its placement struck me as odd! Seeing a department sign hanging above an actionway was a first for me in a Target; most of them, inlcuding the what-I-understand-to-be-fairly-rare Books & Computer Software sign also visible in this pic, are usually above the section they're advertising. The conclusion that I've come up with is that this store once had a matching pharmacy sign also hanging in the actionway, and it was removed with the CVS conversion.
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
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The Randall Park Mall was opened in 1976 and was briefly the largest shopping center in the world, topping in at 2 million square feet. JCPenney, Horne's, Sears, May Company, and Higbee's were the original anchor stores. Sadly, the mall had a decline which led to its closure in 2009. Burlington Coat Factory (former Horne's), the final anchor store, closed in January 2015. The Power Sport institute and a furniture liquidation center are the only remaining businesses here. Much of the vacant space of the mall is undergoing demolition as of mid 2015.
Randall Park Mall - North Randall, Ohio
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1023 N Gettysburg Ave, Dayton, OH
Built in 1989 as Pizza Hut. It was still a Pizza Hut in September 2007, but closed by July 2011
SET 1 – Carthage Walmart
I’m not always the fastest at uploading fresh retail developments, but I wanted to go ahead and jump on this store for two reasons. One, I do find it a particularly nice design; and two, so many others have been uploading the décor, I figured I might as well jump in also! You can find many examples through many familiar folks’ photostreams, but in relation to this specific image, I’ll reference two folks in particular – [https://www.flickr.com/photos/alpha8472/] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/199217062@N06/]. That’s because, in the comments at SoCal’s photo here, I lamented that while these murals do look cool, it’s a shame they lost the hyper-local elements previously featured in Airport décor remodels, now looking very generalized. Case in point, shortly thereafter Dave uploaded a pic of a mural in Martinez, CA – one that is exactly identical to this one here in Carthage, MS! The conversation continues in the comments at this pic, where I posited that perhaps they just have generic murals for “types” of locations – e.g. city, country, suburbs, etc. What do y’all think? Have you seen any other examples that would support or refute all this?
(c) 2026 Retail Retell
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Despite all the "coming soon" signs plastered on the front sporting the new logo and color scheme prior to opening, what little interior signage there was (and there was very, very little of it!) for opening weekend itself was of the red and yellow style. The associates all working in the store (including both "managers" Retail Retell and I have discussed seeing in the past) all were wearing the red "bird logo" t-shirts as well. I'm guessing at this point the new logo and such won't be officially unveiled until early 2017.
UPDATE: the Tuesday Morning website has finally switched over to the new logo, which is kind of cool, since everyone agrees that logo is nice and refreshingly retro-feeling. Sadly however, that also means the unique bird logo has now been retired as well, or will soon be making it's exit :(
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Tuesday Morning, 2000-01 built, Airways Rd. near Goodman Rd., Southaven MS
4480 Indian Ripple Rd, Dayton, OH. This store opened on November 17, 1977, and is the next-to-the-last Kmart in the Dayton area. The store's closure was formally announced on April 6, 2017, with liquidation starting April 27th. The store will close for good in July.
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Cleaning suuplies, looking toward the greeting card and party department
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Opening April 14th, 2018, we will see 2 Fashion Shows on April 21st and one finale show on April 28th. Miss the Fashion Shows? Don't worry! The retail space will remain open until May 5th. 2018
Kmart #7294
1501 N. US 1, Vero Beach, FL - Indian River Plaza
Opened 1979. In the last year, the 'Big' part of the front sign was taken down, leaving just the old Kmart logo by itself.
And a look down the right side of the building.
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WEEK 47 – Cordova Super Target Final Day, Set III
Another shot looking over towards the left-side wall. Although the dividing rack blocks our view of it, the spot in the back left corner of the store where the blue neon turns into the red neon would be within our scene here. Besides that, though, not much else of interest or that we haven’t already seen. I kinda seem to have gone overboard with photographing this central portion of the salesfloor where apparel used to live. Hey, in my defense – I’d never been to a Target closing before, and it’s definitely highly unusual to see one like this!
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
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Gaudio's Garden and Craft Center in Marlton NJ, taken shortly after it opened in June 1987. It was built over the former Marlton Acme Market site. Later it was Frank's Nursery and Crafts.
Scanned from negative.
Next, a shot of a backroom cart while it was sitting out on the salesfloor, on the cleaning supplies aisle it looks like. As a customer I don’t get to see one of these very often, so I wanted to take the opportunity to capture it while I could. Of note here is the logo used for “Key Retailing,” and how the K and Y match what the K and G do in the Kroger logo proper. We saw the same logo on a similar cart back at the S Perkins Kroger FFE auction.
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
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WEEK 23 – OB WM Post-Remodel, Set I
To the right of the logo, we find the store’s official “Grand Re-opening” banner, which evidently had remained in place for at least five days at this point. Doesn’t surprise me – this would have been just after Memorial Day weekend, so I can definitely see why Walmart would want to keep the hype going! On the banner itself, note the clever use of the little “sparklets” from the spark logo as the “pop” beside the word “New,” the cutty parts of the scissors (if you have a better name for those things, feel free to share XD ), and the ties on the ribbon.
Walmart Supercenter // 7950 Craft-Goodman Road, Olive Branch, MS 38654
(c) 2019 Retail Retell
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A now long-gone shot of a garishly lit K-B Toys at the Emerald Square Mall in North Attleboro, MA. The facade hearkens back to the 80's from when the chain was more well known as Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby.
Store ID: 5
Address: 300 West 7th Street
ex-Kmart, now home to Runnings for the past several years.
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WEEK 35 – Lexington BAM, Revisited
It’s Saturday, September 1st – do you know where your favorite flickrer* is? Well, as guessed – in record time, I might add! – on Tuesday, AFB sure does! We are spending the day across the map in Lexington, South Carolina, specifically at the town’s Books-a-Million store. Lexington is no stranger to my photostream, with both this BAM and the nearby Publix having been featured before (albeit quite some time ago, now!). This revisit to the Books-a-Million kicks off another chronicle of stores from Lexington… you see, instead of a destination vacation, for this summer’s road trip we chose to visit our relatives in South Carolina, at my behest. Now, my behest was NOT because of all the retail I would wind up seeing and photographing… BUT that’s a definite bonus! So be sure to look out for no fewer than seven (!) more stours from this summer trip in the future… :)
* – Favorite flickrer who lives in Hernando, of course. What did you think I was implying? :P
Books-A-Million // 918 N Lake Drive, Lexington, SC 29072
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
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