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Kash n' Karry #1837/Sweetbay Supermarket #1837/Navigator Academy 1101 E Bloomingdale Ave, Valrico, FL. Originally opened in 1997 as Kash n' Karry #1837 and converted to Sweetbay Supermarket in 2005. Later closed on February 28, 2009 due to underperformance. After 10 years of vacancy, a charter school called Navigator Academy opened in mid-2019. What used to be the main entrance into Sweetbay Supermarket. It appears that vandals must have broke in to the store, so you are seeing lots of plywood. This Kash n' Karry/Sweetbay also had a liquor store at the left side of the building. And here is the same store back when Kash n' Karry was in business. This store had two entrances, one at the middle of the store and another to the right of customer service. A labelscar saying "Sweetbay Pharmacy" is visible above. To the right is a store closing notice from 2009, directing shoppers to go to Winn-Dixie #2499,  Winn-Dixie #2475 , or they could have just went up t...

Food Lion #722 944 Hillsboro Blvd, Manchester, TN Opened in 1989 as a typical late 1980's/early 1990's Food Lion grocery store. The exterior was repainted into a tan/purple combination when I took these pictures in July 2018. These Food Lion stores have a similar entrance/exit setup to a 1980's model Publix. Due to the use of spotlights in produce, this section feels darker than the rest of the store. Food Lion's from this era were usually about 35,000 square feet in size. Here is aisle 9. Notice the use of dual-sided aisle signage? This is because that one side is used for promotions and advertising, while the other is for the number itself. This store has a total of 6 checkouts (5 regular, 1 express) Thank you for shopping at Food Lion! In the background, you can see an older early to mid-1990's Rite Aid store that closed around 2007 to relocate to the Eckerd building down the street. And here is the Eckerd building, which became a Rite Aid in 2007 and closed in 2...

Winn-Dixie #678 9822 US 301, Riverview, FL. - River Bay Plaza This Winn-Dixie opened in 1984 as a pre-Marketplace style building. In 1995, this store was given a major interior and exterior remodel to bring this store into the Marketplace 2.0 layout. This store lost it's pharmacy in November 2016, and store 678 permanently closed in July 2017. Part of this building is currently home to a Planet Fitness, which opened in December 2019. The Winn-Dixie space remains vacant. 6/10/2023 UPDATE: Bravo Supermarkets (a Hispanic oriented grocery store) will soon open in the former Winn-Dixie space after being vacant for 6 years. The next set of photos were taken in September 2017, 2 months after the store closed. This is a typical Marketplace entrance layout, with one or two entrance doors off to the sides, and two exit doors in the center. A store closing notice that was put into effect in May 2017. Store 2475 (6929 US 301) is 2 miles to the north at the Lake St. Charles Plaza. Store 676 (1...