Instead of newspapers or gum, a former newsstand at the West Fourth Street station is stocked with free zines, guides to several subway stations and a limited supply of rat tail keychains: gothamist.visitlink.me/a0Mu1f
Groceteria
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Supermarket and retail history, photos, commercial archaeology, random pop culture, architecture, and urban history. Ill-mannered librarian by day. https://groceteria.com/ 🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏴☠️
The OBJ artifact returns. This apparently comes when some iOS apps use an emoji that can't be displayed on other devices, and also sometimes when you dictate (there was no emoji in this post). I only see this randomly on the Bluesky app though it used to come up when I still used Facebook as well.
In case you were terribly worried about them, the TV Guides are back in their proper positions after a shelving misfunction a little while back. I'm sure you're all very relieved. 
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A slideshow history of Sainsburys from the Sainsburys archive. youtu.be/0JJh0nrcqx0?...
Archive Talk: The History of Sainsbury's
YouTube video by Sainsbury Archive
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Another small (and not really very exciting) one: North Platte, Nebraska Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations 1925-2026. www.groceteria.com/place/us-neb...
Two Long Island supermarket chains will merge as Giunta's Meat Farms acquires the iconic King Kullen chain: libn.com/2026/07/30/g...
Giunta’s Meat Farms to acquire King Kullen Grocery chain
Giunta’s Meat Farms will acquire King Kullen Grocery Co., including 24 supermarkets and four Wild by Nature markets.
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Clearly this is the real reason I went to library school.
Minor update to the DFW section, adding a few years of Arlington and Irving to fill in some holes between Dallas and Fort Worth. www.groceteria.com/place/texas/...
Does using this as my lunch bag give me any special goth street cred?
"Prepares you to become an influencer" My brain hurts. degrees.apps.asu.edu/bachelors/ma...
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Wow. I've always been fascinated by the story of the little corner building and the fact that it's losing its Macy's connection says a lot about the current state of "the world's largest store." ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/h...
Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view
The enormous faux shopping bag that served as an advertisement for Macy’s is mostly gone, save for a patch of red facing Sixth Avenue. Scaffolding covers the ground floor retail space, and da…
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This is the one the world has been waiting for: Poughkeepsie NY Chain Grocery/Supermarket Locations, 1925-1988. www.groceteria.com/place/new-yo...
It's been a very stressful and unpleasant week already. Maybe that means I'll accomplish something brilliantly creative by the end of it.
You'd think that anyone who knows how to use the terminal (or even knows what it is) wouldn't fall for this, but apparently you'd be wrong.
MacRumors.com@macrumors.bsky.social · 2w ago'ClickLock' Malware Coerces Mac Users Into Giving Up Passwords
Dealing with DNS stuff always leaves me with a massive headache.
Last night's news still sinking in a bit. A sad whirlwind week, from the announcement of the fundraiser to the fact it met its goals and then some in a couple of days to yesterday's horrible news. But Jennifer Finch absolutely did the work. This clip is from the last time I saw them.
L7, “Pretend We’re Dead,” Slim’s, San Francisco, 9/27/17
YouTube video by Ned Raggett
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Big Star, downtown Greensboro NC. The link gets you to more lovely photos from my day job. www.digitalgreensboro.org/search?ln=en...
While looking for something else, I found some ads detailing an additional 170 or so Richelieu co-op/franchise locations in Montréal from 1960-1969 that I thought I'd ever be able to ID. www.groceteria.com/place/quebec...
Unhappy news for those of us who are of a certain age and musical inclination. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...
Dave Kendall, Former MTV Host, Dies
Matt Pinfield broke the news on social media.
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Hmmm. This has good Thursday night potential. carolinatheatre.com/event/sunset...
Sunset Boulevard - Carolina Theatre
Directed by Billy Wilder and starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden. Not Rated. Runtime: 110 minutes. A struggling screenwriter finds himself drawn into the eerie mansion of Norma Desmond, a forgo...
carolinatheatre.com
Another big expansion: Akron OK, 1925-2020. Added 180 new locations, mostly from the 1920s-1940s, that I was not able to do before because of missing data. The big holes on this one had been bugging me for a long time. www.groceteria.com/place/ohio/a...
YouTube continues to think I'm Canadian. I'm pretty much OK with that…
