Rose's
Maxway
Hannaford
Pic n Pay
Revco
The Pantry (according to wiki, Kangaroos = The Pantry)
Clarks Sporting Goods

*I'm well aware that some, if not all, of these stores still exist.

[Edited on January 14, 2008 at 11:11 PM. Reason : FLAME ON]

[Edited on January 14, 2008 at 11:17 PM. Reason : .]

1/14/2008 11:11:20 PM

Waccamaw Pottery
Sav-A-Center
King's

1/14/2008 11:17:29 PM

waccamaw had an outlet at sawgrass mills in ft. lauderdale, fl when i was growing up!

1/15/2008 12:40:44 AM

There's still a Rose's in J-ville. It's ghetto as shit, I'm surprised it's still in biz.

1/15/2008 1:16:27 AM

last I checked there was a Roses in Martinsville, Va.

1/15/2008 8:08:01 AM

i thought Revco = CVS

1/15/2008 8:15:18 AM

Brendles

1/15/2008 8:51:56 AM

Structure

1/15/2008 8:58:26 AM

I saw a Rose's in Durham last week. Couldn't believe it.

1/15/2008 9:37:07 AM

Quote :

"Structure"

1/15/2008 10:09:27 AM

Quote :

"The Pantry (according to wiki, Kangaroos = The Pantry)"

there are still some pantrys at home

1/15/2008 11:18:04 AM

Clarks Sporting Goods

lol, this was my first real job. They still exist, but not the retail side. They just do large scale equipment orders for highschools, etc.

1/15/2008 11:26:15 AM

Service Merchandise

1/15/2008 12:47:47 PM

Brody's

1/15/2008 12:52:29 PM

Best Products
Big Star
Zayre's
Bradlees'
Hechinger's
Home Quarters
Ivey's
Thalhimer's
Phar-Mor
Bi-Lo

If Winn-Dixie still exists, I don't think there are any more around here...

[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM. Reason : Chek!]

1/15/2008 12:54:05 PM

Piggly Wiggly

1/15/2008 1:34:42 PM

Lechmere
J Riggins



[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 2:42 PM. Reason : ]

1/15/2008 2:40:47 PM

Sky City

1/15/2008 2:55:56 PM

Quote :

"Piggly Wiggly"

There certainly aren't any left around here, but I think they're still "Big on the Pig" in some rural areas south of here.

Interesting fact: The building on Hillsborough that now houses Red Hot & Blue (the old Darryl's location) contained a Piggly Wiggly years and years ago.

1/15/2008 3:12:33 PM

There was one in Creedmoor 10 years ago but it got bought out by IGA and is now a southern states.

1/15/2008 3:19:48 PM

Bi Lo still exists

1/15/2008 3:27:24 PM

and it looks like clark's just celebrated a GRAND RE-OPENING

http://clarksportinggoods.com/store/

[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM. Reason : they look like my first job (the catering to team/schools part, we also did weightroom equi ]

[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM. Reason : and football]

1/15/2008 3:28:39 PM

yeah, it may have just been official... but they have had a small corner of the trophy house for over a year now. It's still not a full sporting goods retail store like they used to be. Just couldn't compete with Dick's/Sports Authority

1/15/2008 3:30:50 PM

The store I worked at couldn't either, and hadn't tried since the 80's. They had found their niche and made a killing off of it. Every team in the region went there.

It was a damn fun hs/first job, too. You talked sports all day, played with equipment, and made fun of customers.

1/15/2008 3:38:06 PM

piggly wiggly definitely still exists in rocky mount
winn dixie left here a good while back

1/15/2008 3:53:19 PM

pigglies are all over the coast

1/15/2008 4:00:36 PM

I remember when Montgomery Ward was big. I thought of it as being almost as big as Sears when I was growing up. I don't even know where I could find one now.

1/15/2008 4:23:30 PM

I was just about to post Montgomery Ward. The mention of Service Merchandise made me think of it eventually, since my Dad was an assistant manager at the Greensboro Service Merchandise back in the day. It was across from Carolina Circle Mall, which had...a Montgomery Ward.

Speaking of old school retail, Carolina Circle Mall as a whole fits the category. Gone and bulldozed years ago. I remember going there when I was little; they used to have an ice skating rink in the middle of the place.

1/15/2008 4:29:34 PM

monkey ward! i think probably the last one around here was torn down with the rest of tarrytown mall in RM.

1/15/2008 4:38:55 PM

that store has some sexy lines

(really)

1/15/2008 4:42:01 PM

^^ I always wanted to sneak out there and grab those letters off Tarrytown after it flooded. I figured I could at least spell out "GET RAD" in giant letters on the roof of my house.

Could also spell "RAW DOG" if you're into that sort of thing.

[Edited on January 15, 2008 at 5:20 PM. Reason : s]

1/15/2008 5:19:26 PM

Service Merchandise

1/15/2008 5:26:20 PM

Brendles (i think thats splled right)

Best (i remember going into best there was like a jewelery room when you first went in, then there was another room through two big doors with everything else, and toys! haha)

1/15/2008 5:41:13 PM

oh shit, TG&Y, last one I know of closed about 15 years ago

1/15/2008 5:49:27 PM

Wait, wasn't there a department store called "Nickels" in the early 80's? I googled it and didn't find anything, but I'm almost sure there was.

1/15/2008 6:14:49 PM

Quote :

"Interesting fact: The building on Hillsborough that now houses Red Hot & Blue (the old Darryl's location) contained a Piggly Wiggly years and years ago."

Interesting fact: The now restaurant/store at 5 points, "NOFO's At the Pig," used to be a Piggly Wiggly

and there's plenty of Piggly Wiggly's in Eastern NC

1/15/2008 6:30:52 PM

kerr drug (still a handful left)

1/15/2008 10:11:01 PM

Phar-Mor had awesome school supplies. I would always beg my mom to take me there when i "needed" pencils and shit.

1/16/2008 12:24:32 AM

Quote :

"Wait, wasn't there a department store called "Nickels" in the early 80's? I googled it and didn't find anything, but I'm almost sure there was."

uh, don't you mean "Penny's?"

1/16/2008 10:43:41 AM

^ Pennys = JC Penneys. I thought about that before posting, but I'm still pretty sure there was a store called "Nickels."

1/16/2008 12:30:11 PM

alright, reaching back into my 80's childhood here...

ones that haven't already been mentioned:

Tape World
Ames
Food Town
Waccamaw Pottery
Drug Palace
Home Quarters
Drug Emporium
McCrory
Woolworth
Heilig-Meyers
Family Mart


i can't think of anymore right now, but i know there's more.

1/16/2008 1:01:08 PM

Quote :

"McCrory"

Aw shit, how could I forget them? At Four Seasons mall, right? (I guess there were others, too...)

I think Food Town got bought out by Harris Teeter, just like Big Star did. (or was that Food World...)

A few more I thought of:
Rhodes Furniture (just recently expired)
Woolco
Plej's
PACE

1/16/2008 1:18:47 PM

Piece Goods

1/16/2008 2:00:28 PM

^^^At least a third of those have already been mentioned.



man Service Merchandise and Brendle's were the two i was coming in here to post when i reat the thread title. I used to love going to either of those.

McCrory's omg. I haven't thought about that store in a long time. There used to be one in the Carolina Mall in Concord. That is where I got all my X-Men cards when i was young

There used to be a toystore on Independence Blvd in Charlotte a long time ago that i used to go into a lot. I can't remember what it was called (my mind wants to say kangaroo toys or something but i know thats not right). Does anyone recall it?

[Edited on January 16, 2008 at 2:23 PM. Reason : add]

1/16/2008 2:18:56 PM

I thought Phar-Mor was awesome too. I loved getting dropped off in the shopping center and purchasing cool pens and hair stuff with my allowance....

1/16/2008 2:19:54 PM

Quote :

"man Service Merchandise and Brendle's were the two i was coming in here to post when i reat the thread title. I used to love going to either of those."

Those two, along with Best Products, were the three big players in the "catalog store" genre, which is now completely extinct itself. Remember how, for the big items, once you knew what you wanted from checking out the displays, you'd hand them a ticket and a bit later your merchandise would come out from the warehouse on a conveyor belt behind the registers? We did a LOT of our shopping at Best and Service Merchandise when I was little.

[Edited on January 16, 2008 at 3:24 PM. Reason : f]

1/16/2008 3:22:32 PM

Best was the heat, also Toys R Us used to be like that too.

1/16/2008 4:05:04 PM

The Intimate Bookshop

1/16/2008 7:11:20 PM

^Fucking shit I don't know how I forgot that.

I worked there.

Greensboro location, Four Seasons Mall, basement level, from late '95 until it closed in summer '97.

And no, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, it wasn't an "adult" bookstore.

[Edited on January 16, 2008 at 9:51 PM. Reason : ]

1/16/2008 9:50:44 PM

O-me-ga! Gotta go to omega to get the newest umbros!

1/16/2008 10:13:58 PM