Continuing the celebration of The Market Report's 10th year!
A&P
This was a particularly exciting find at an antique store in Gloucester, MA. This tin was sold for $2.99 at A&P's 125th anniversary in 1984. Seeing this, it wasn't a hard decision to make this part of my own collection.
The tin depicts a ca. 1912 A&P store, and I love the images around the tin.
On the back, you get a look inside the store at that time.
And here's some more information from the bottom of the tin.
If you're interested in all things A&P, don't miss
Remembering A&P!
Here's a scan of a ca. 1990s or early 00s A&P Bonus Savings Club card -- with personal customer information removed from the back, of course.
And spotted at an antique store in Manchester, NH is this coffee can.
Coffee cans and spice tins are the most common supermarket storebrand items that show up in antique stores, mostly because they're durable and easily reusable. Heck, my grandmother kept her nails and screws in a Pathmark coffee can since long before I was born.
And in Concord, NH, I spotted these Ann Page (an A&P brand) tins alongside one from Red & White, which was a generic brand and it's actually still distributed, though it's not that common.
ACME
A scan of the ca. early 00s ACME SuperCard, again with the customer information removed.
Cost Cutters
Cost Cutters wasn't a supermarket, but more of a discount store, owned by Drug Fair. This coupon book lists the locations on the back, some of which were in fact previously supermarkets.
The inside has coupons for home goods, personal care items, and food. Although Cost Cutters sold food, it wasn't the main focus.
Here's some background on Cost Cutters, and a
picture of one.
Finast
This above was a fascinating find at an antique store in Concord, NH, showing the early days of the switch from First National Stores to the abbreviated Finast brand. I've never seen the brand spelled out in this way, as Fi-Na-St.
And this can, spotted at the Brimfield, MA flea markets, shows a similar Fi-Na-St branding.
A later spice tin spotted at an antique store in York, ME.
Giant Food
An antique store in Occaquan, VA brought us this can of Giant Food (MD) beer.
Grand Union
Antique stores in Concord and Manchester, NH displayed these cans of baking powder. Notice that the can to the right above is the same as the one below, which is in spectacular condition. Sadly, both were out of my price range to actually buy.
You can do one better at the Brimfield Flea Markets: one vendor had this actual Grand Union sign up for sale. I love it, and it would totally have been mine if it weren't so expensive -- and so large. Where the heck would I put it?
IGA
My trips to Manchester, NH and Concord, NH certainly yielded a lot of supermarket memorabilia. How about this incredible can of shortening? I would assume this is around 1950s, but I don't know for certain.
Stowe, VT's Shaw's General Store (no relation to the supermarket chain Shaw's) has this partial IGA sign inside. It looks like it's from the years
when there was an IGA in this building.
Kroger
This tower of Kroger spices was up for sale in a Concord, NH antique store. Listen, if you're looking for supermarket storebrand packages, Concord and Manchester are your places to go!
Royal Blue Stores
Royal Blue Stores isn't a chain (or cooperative?) that I'm familiar with, once again spotted in Concord.
This Reddit post suggests it's a cooperative that went out of business in the 1950s.
Staff
Rounding out our memorabilia post with this look at a Staff coffee can from Jericho, NY on Long Island. That brings us to the end of today's post, and come back tomorrow for a bit more memorabilia!
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