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Originally Posted by ae118
Kresge/KMart were the same thing. The store was rebranded KMart in the 70s.
I can’t make out the writing on the map - where was the Safeway?
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The one in Chinook was branded as a Kresge store until it closed, although, inside it was pretty much interchangeable with a K-Mart.
Until looking at these maps, I had forgotten that Safeway had two different locations in Chinook. It was originally one of the anchors of the expansion that was done in the mid-80s, on the east side (I think it was roughly where Shoppers is today). That location didn't last long because when Woodward's started having financial troubles, one of the first things they did was sell off their grocery operations to Safeway, so Safeway moved into the old Woodward's Food Floor at the south end of Chinook (around where Old Navy is now). The Safeway by Sears was then split into a drugstore and Consumers Distributing, which is mostly what I remember being there.