Abandoned Save A Lot / Family Dollar Natrona Heights, PA
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2019
- Former Kroger store. This store was divided into 2 smaller stores before ultimately closing altogether.
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The store was built around 1979 as a Kroger. The Kroger employees went on strike around 1982-83, and Kroger closed all their stores in the area. Then Foodland moved in around 1984. Some where it was split into to two stored in the middle 2000's. I remember shopping there with my dad for Groceries everyweek!!!
That Kroger design goes back to the 70's. There was one in my city. I recall the 70's motif of green and burnt orange walls and partially tiled floors that mimicked a turn of the century market place.
That store closed in the mid 80's when Kroger pulled out of the state. I believe it had to do with them avoiding the unions. The Foodland and Foodland distribution warehouse were largely Kroger operated. I worked for Kroger in the mid-90's and they were srill using the Foodland warehouse.
There is another Kroger in a nearby town that is in the same style store, but it was remodeled in the late/early 90's and went to a boring beige interior.
5:57 someone tagged Sal. this is why we can't have nice abandoned stores.
The Kroger store in my hometown of Danville VA closed 20+ years ago stands unoccupied and has only ever housed Kroger. It has the greenhouse design - wish you and Kayla could tour and film it.
HI WALLIE,I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS ALL WEEKEND!!!!,LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!
Kroger left Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1985. My aunt worked for them and got laid off. I was 10 years old and remember when they left town. Many were repurposed as Foodland, Shop N Save, Kuhn's. Except Cedar Ave Kroger on the North side of Pittsburgh. That became the Cedar Ave Giant Eagle. Some of them even became Phar-Mor's
That's the way the old Kroger used to look back in the late 80' early 90's with those arches like that. I remember seeing them arches as a kid...
Keep going brother your channel is growing. Don't give up this video meant a lot cause I love Family Dollar and Save A Lot
Hi Wallie, another great video, thank you! Once again you show respect about exploring property, and that is really good! It's sad to see more jobs gone! Have a wonderful evening!
5:56 when sal's youtube channel is on the door 😂
I us to work at the Save-a-lot in my town for 3 years until they closed down I loved working there
That seems interesting. We used to have a Shaw’s supermarket in an old town of Biddeford and it closed back in 2015. It got replaced as Ocean State Job Lot and Planet Fitness but it was two separate rooms. Your videos are awesome! 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video as always! Watching it now.
Another great video! Love the ending music
there's not a lot of people that do what you do...I cant stop watching the vids you do on these places...glad your doing this . good to document these buildings to remember what they were like, maybe some will reopen again and i'm sure some buildings will be torn down
In the 80s and 90s both of those stores was 1 big food store called Foodland.
Amazing find Wallie!
Great video , even though the loading dock was in bad shape but.what a cool find thanks for sharing
I’m in East Tennessee we have Kroger here, 2 within 30 minutes of my house. I hate seeing so much decline! In our tiny town we have a few abandoned places, not very many just the Rite Aid and a couple other places. Love your videos
Nice catch!
7:13 funny how big lots uses old shopping carts from other stores. My home town they used Target's old carts (which looks exactly like this one) and slap a Big Lots sticker on it.
I wonder who will end up with all of the old KMart carts.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 Would be funny if they gave it to Walmart, they can cover the K put Wal. 😄
This plaza looks like it has seen better days. Too bad people have the need to ruin things. These people don't care about nice things. They like doing bad things. Another great find.
This is Heights Plaza and it still has a few businesses, but the owners are letting it go to shit. When I was a kid every space was occupied. Dunham’s was the best store. Everything went downhill faster after the fire in 2013
Awesome video
Great video Wallie.. You’re like Ace Ventura Pet Detective, except for you, it’s “Wallie , Abandoned Kroger Dectctive”.. 😉. We have lots of Kroger stores in the Atlanta GA area. A few are still old style from the 80’s.
Another great find. It looks like a Kroger in Houston which is still in business and sadly looks tired and old inside. It's that same cookie cutter style, though I like it prefered to the sterile cookie cutter style of Wally World Today.
Isn't Save a Lot in financial trouble>+> Always sad to see a supermarket closed because we all need food from beer to bacon.
Family Dollar has three stores in my city always busy but looking a little disorganzed. If you are paitent you can find a few bargains amid the mess.
Always a highlight of my week to see a video from you Wallie. Guessing this will be your best year yet
There is Big Lots in Butler (Alameda Plaza) that was a 70’s Kroger building just like that one. You can see many remnants of it inside still. Also the Clearview Mall Giant Eagle is a “greenhouse Kroger” as you call them. Just like the one in McCandless Twp. Fun fact: both of these locations were briefly occupied by a grocery store named Food Arena in the mid 80’s after Kroger abandoned them and before their current occupants moved in.
NGL, I love the Clearview Mall Giant Eagle. Hate shopping there, but I love the sign.
Nice hearing your Pittsburgh accent! I left Pittsburgh years ago and miss it sometimes. I didn't hear any Pittsburgheese unfortunatly but you have the intonation and rhythm of that area. Nice work! I grew up near a Kroger where the Waterworks is. That Kroger closed in the 70's. There was an Isaly's which was great. Are there any Isaly's still?
1 in Youngstown just for demoed
The Kroger store in the Waterworks became a Giant Eagle and when Giant Eagle got a new store in the Waterworks the Giant Eagle Became a Phar-Mor.
Great video
Cool find👍👍
Thanks wallie
I want to go Krogering 😥. Kroger left Pittsburgh area in 1985 and Northeast Ohio in 1986. Kroger left Pittsburgh and NEO due union issues. This classic Kroger design was 70s into early 80s before the greenhouse design came out.
Yes, non union supermarkets were opening and Kroger prices were higher because they paid union wages. Kroger couldn't compete and the union refused to take concessions. Buh bye!
Another ex Kroger superstore. There used to be a Winn Dixie near. Me. After they pulled out in 2004 they subdivided it into a sav a lot and furniture store which both recently closed.
Omg ! I know the area ! I can't believe you got in
This is my hometown and I had no idea it was a Kroger! I remember save a lot and family dollar though. That plaza used to be really nice believe it or not. It’s sad
It wasn’t it was a shop n save then it was a save a lot/family dollar. Also at 5:06 I’m in the video smokin a cig
They left Pittsburgh in 1983 they sold all of them to Giant Eagle. Yes Wallie that is a late 70's early 80's Kroger store and on the other side would have been a SUPER X Pharmacy at the time. Kroger sold SUPER X to REVCO Pharmacy and then REVCO went bankrupt in 1997 became CVS. That would have been a SUPER X and the SUPER X had its own entrance catty corner to the Kroger and you could access the SUPER X from inside Kroger where the wall was put up. When SUPER X would close at 7:00 PM they had a gate like you would find in a mall when the store would close. SUPER X and Hook's Drugs were owned both by The Kroger Company Kroger sold SUPER X in 1993. Here is some history on Kroger and SUPER X Pharmacy.
Very interesting. I haven’t heard of SuperX in years. I never knew Kroger owned them. Thanks for this interesting info!
+Andy Tichenor Kroger Company Sold all Hook's Drugs and Super X Stores in 1993 to REVCO Drug stores INC. Then all stores starting in January 1994 switched to REVCO drug and remained that way until the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Revco Drug in 1997. Once in bankruptcy CVS brought all the REVCO chains and turned them into CVS by 2000. Here is some history on how CVS got bigger. This was also why you see so many CVS Pharmacy right next door to a Kroger or an abandoned Kroger.
Gotcha, thank you for the information. Really interesting ,to me anyway..
FN COOL FIND BRO!!!!!
Wallie fyi Kroger made a non compete deal with Giant Eagle. They would no longer compete in the Pittsburgh retail regions in exchange for Grant Eagle staying out West Virginia. They agreed to close all their WV locations except Morgantown and Kroger accepted and closed all in your area.
way too much abandonment GOOD JOB WALLIE B!
Looks almost to the exact letter like the design of the former Kroger that used to exist in Cambridge, OH. Which the parking lot for the Holiday Inn Express sits currently.
I'm still laughing at nate's trolling of Wallie on his latest video it was all in good fun between friends but Savage Beyond Savage everyone should definitely check it out LOL😅😅
Also the place where the Family dollar was at and all of those other places now have actual stores in them
I notice Big Lots tends to be rather notorious for using carts from other stores. The Big Lots where I live took a bunch of old Target carts, along with carts from various other big box stores and retailers.
Good video 😀
There’s an abandoned Save A Lot store in Grove City, PA that was, ironically, a Kroger back in the 70s and early 80s!
They just left the North Carolina area in August 2018.. Very sad. They changed their stores to Harris Teeter or sold them to Food Lion. The rest are just left to rust...
Very nice video, man. Are you going to go to the Shaler Township Kmart, because that one closes today.
I hope your knee is better ❤️
Use to have couple save alot by me in late 1990s and early 2000s and now they all gone now. I miss them they where cheap when low on money
PRETTY COOL COUNT 4!!!
Hope the Save A lot would be a Best Buy and the Dollar General will be a Petco.
Can I ask what do u edit your videos with?
Kroger is fully operating all over Southern Illinois we have 9 Kroger stores in Marion Illinois Mount Vernon Illinois West Frankfort Illinois Herrin Illinois Harrisburg Illinois Carbondale Illinois Anna Illinois Nashville Illinois Murphysboro Illinois and to be quite honest I prefer Krogers over Schnucks any day but there used to be a Krogers in Duquoin Illinois but it is no longer open it close down in 2013 I think but I do also know part of Arkansas and Missouri and Tennessee and Mississippi have Kroger stores and I do know that those are a few of the states that have Kroger stores but for people that did not know Kroger's owns a lot of other grocery store chains
@Weatherstar4000videorocks2019 we have alot in virginia as well
Lots of abandoned places here, damn.
By the way, there is a abandoned Toys "R" Us in Mayfield Heights Ohio that you should visit! I haven't been there in a while, and I didn't see inside while abandoned and i'd like you to check it out!
This was the same style of Krogers that was built here in New Baltimore Michigan in 1980.
I remember that Kroger on 23 Mile Road in New Baltimore. I remember the old Great Scott!Supermarket chain. The present Kroger was a Great Scott!being built, then Kroger bought the old Great Scott!Supermarket chain. That is why, Kroger is in the GREAT Scott!building.
I think Kroger pulled out of Pittsburgh in the early 80's. The big lots on McKnight use to be a Kroger. Are you going to video the west view Kmart?
Dude I shopped at that Dave alot in 2005 when I lived in Natrona down the hill
Bro two things one I been living here for 26 years the Kroger was up by the dollar bank that was a Shop n save before it was save a lot/family dollar.
Second you can take my word on that cause at 5:06 I’m in the video that’s me smokin a cigarette!!!
That was a FoodLand too. I remember lookin at the videos to rent up front.
Nes games too
@@ClaireFelidae i was soo young i dont remeber games there. But i remember steak and onion chips there i can find now.
The original Kroger's was in the other section of the old plaza about half way up the row of stores. They built this next section I think sometime in the 1970's sort of just prior to Kroger's pulling out of the Pittsburgh district but I think they ran till about 1980 as I was in high school. Looking at all this is really sad in my eyes...a real shame.
It was a food land grocery store in the 90s and early 2000s when I was a kid. Than it became a save a lot and family dollar.
There was a man that use to work there back in the day.. Manager of Natrona Heights, Harrison, died at 2:15 p.m. Saturday (April 17, 2004) in Allegheny Valley Hospital, Natrona Heights. He had been ill since February.
Born April 13, 1930, in Indiana, Pa., he moved to Harrison in 1958. Mr. Lydick was an assistant manager at Kroger's and later Foodland in Natrona Heights, for 35 years before retiring.
You were in the worst part of Natrona Heights in that alley behind all the stores is Sheldon Park. They wrote CK on the walls cause its blood territory.
I dont remember Kroger there but in the mid 90’s it was a Foodland
Theres actually a Kroger in Wellston OH that was built sometime in the 1950s, its literally the size of a convenience store.
It has an old sign, in a dying downtown area, and it does not even have a pharmacy. Last time it was remodeled was sometime in the 1960s - early 1970s.
Omg ive been wanting to get into there since its been abandoned.
125th Kroger will be global brand sometime
We have a abandoned family dollar in min city plaza in north Tonawanda we miss family dollar
There's a lot of abandoned Krogers buildings around our area as well they left in the early 90's and it's too bad they were a good store they just got intimidated and ran out by competition.
I understand Kroger employees were unionized and other non union grocers like Foodland (now pretty much gone) and Shop n Save started competing with Kroger. Kroger asked unions to take concessions to remain competitive, union workers went on strike, and Kroger closed. There were labor issues when competitors bought shuttered Kroger stores and union workers demanded THEIR jobs back.
Does anyone know of any abandoned places in Illinois near libertyville
I would of kept that big lots sticker lol
Nice video wallie!!
I understand why Kroger left we have Kroger her in Dallas and it's expensive I've never been inside a Kroger that's actually been genuinely busy all the employees looked miserable
There is plenty of open Kroger’s down here in Alabama
There's an abandoned Kroger in Fairborn, OH that kinda looks like this one.
Jonathan Runion I remember that old Kroger.
You know you're in a bad area when the dollar store, pharmacy and liquor store go out of business lol . . .
Also surprised Kroger isn't in Pittsburg and the surrounding area. They are headquartered in Cincinnati, figured they'd have operations in that part of PA, Kroger is everywhere in Ohio.
Heights Plaza WAS a very nice middle class shopping area until a public housing project called Sheldon Park opened behind it. Crime and vandalism came --the business left.
Did you already saw the Jackson, Michigan one?
It was a foodland also
SAVE-A-LOT had management problems out here...
There are no Kroger stores in Pittsburgh? I'm in Michigan and we have them all over the place. The store you showed is a VERY old design. The current stores are much larger now.
Not in Pittsburgh PA region, but Kroger operates nearby in Morgantown WV, Wheeling WV
It was a Foodland after Kroger, it was built for Kroger
I miss save a lot they had great sales they all closed on the west coast in the early 2000s .
Still one open here in Duquesne Pa
@@johnhull6363 thats cool
We have some vacant school in blairsville that you might like to check out
SAVE-A-LOT did not sell beer🍺🍻 out here.
Come to fairborn ohio we have a old kmart and two abandoned Kroger stores
It was a foodland before save alot
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Definitely a former Kroger
do one at meadow brook in erie
There is a brand new Save A Lot/ AutoZone that opened near me it used to be an Albertsons but they split the store in half now.
I actually live around here cool lol
Is that legacy store for Kroger. Save a lot and family Dollar just always for shop at your city Wallie.
That's an old Kroger design.
Save a lot closed in 2010 family dollar closed in 2016
Wallie is there a way I could get in contact with you to maybe do a video together?Ps(I am the one you sign the restroom checklist for on the Shaler Two kmart last day
Kroger closed in 1990 or 2000
michael
Rough shape
The decline of this plaza is sad. That big lots was a sears that closed when the sears grand opened at the Pittsburgh mills. And that upmc building was a Macy’s/Lazarus/Horne’s that closed a few years after the mills opened.
@Mario kart awesome fan 2003 The mini golf is still there! Not sure how (seeing as everything around it in that part of the mall is LONG gone), but it's definitely still open.
@@TheAskTrixieChannel yah it was my childhood mall.
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NOT an old Kroger store and never was! But I know this video is old and probably no one cares. Lol.
Wallileb26 I see abandoned old country buffet trotwood ohio
Thats definitely a kroger. If your ever back in Weirton wv we have an old kroger in the old kmart plaza its a buzy beaver and dollar general now, but they have the same look
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Claire Osada no i was first
Both of you need to grow up!
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