NEW: North Bay ON chain geocery/supermarket locations, 1924-2026. www.groceteria.com/place/ontari...

I like my favorite local diner a lot more now that they seem to have gotten rid of whoever kept changing the Muzak over to the bro-country channel.

Thinking about the a&w burger family

Just me or does this sound more like a personal ad than a news headline?

NEW: Daytona Beach chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1924-2026. www.groceteria.com/place/florid...

There will soon come a time when 2006 will no longer exist because the entire year was stored on crappy computer-burned CDs and DVDs.

Coming (maybe) tomorrow, a wintertime look at Daytona Beach.

Because he's an idiot?

Chicken jambalaya, okra and tomatoes, and black beans. It's a little too early for Mardi Gras so we'll call it Dimanche Gras. Or just dinner…

Aldi in waiting, Chapel Hill NC.

Also in downtown Burlington, an A&P and a Big Star/Colonial side by side.

Kroger, downtown Burlington NC. I always refer to this one as the "Blanche Taylor Moore Memorial Kroger" because I'm pretty sure it's one of the ones she worked at before going to jail for some very serious murdering. I like it because there aren't a lot of this prototype still this intact.

On this festive day, please know that I will always Heart you.

Elvis ate here.

Any new work initiatives launched today will be codenamed JASON.

It has that new Food Lion smell, which is not appreciably different from that old Food Lion smell. Greensboro NC, open yesterday.

For those of you who care about such things, the Black Cat started out life as a Safeway. Its later years were much more historically significant, but just trying to keep it on topic here...

North Carolina, where the kabobs and pita bead come with fried squash, cabbage, and a biscuit. And the condiments are tzatziki and Texas Pete.

NEW: Fredericksburg VA chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1924-2026. www.groceteria.com/place/virgin...

I know it's all devices now but is it really too much to expect a college student to have at least some basic understanding of how to use a desktop computer too? Or am I just old and cranky? Or are both true?

Well this is sad. We worked together in college radio land many years ago. She was a sweetheart and a hell of a musician. parade.com/news/beloved...

In case you were sleeping...

It's a Canada Post facility now, apparently, but still fronted by a Co-op gas station. maps.app.goo.gl/naG6533KugDq...

NEW: Phase 1 of the DC suburbs: www.groceteria.com/place/virgin...

A vacant building on route 46 in Clifton -- built decades ago as an A&P -- is now set to become a supermarket again. www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...

Starting to do some work on the DC suburbs. Finished Falls Church and Arlington tonight and I'll probably post that tomorrow. Or not. You'll just have to wait and see!

As I get older, I become even more convinced that duct tape (particularly black duct tape) really CAN fix anything. As I get older, I also become more paranoid about people laughing at me. Therefore there will be no photo of tonight's project.

NEW: Santa Maria CA chain grocery/supermarket locations, 1938-2025. www.groceteria.com/place/califo...

Wow. You couldn't ask for a much clearer picture of which side of town has the money and influence in Greensboro. (Blue indicates streets that have been cleared.)

Looking forward to my longstanding annual tradition of watching pretty much anything other than the Grammys.

The concept of "competitive spreadsheeting" gives me the warm fuzzies on so many levels. wapo.st/4kdAAwG

Scenes inside a closing Amazon Fresh grocery store in Norridge, IL The fast-tracked closure (announced the 27th/closing the 1st), these stores underwent a closing sale speedrun, with today marked with a storewide 80% off. By the time I arrived most of the store was wiped out like this.

This is...interesting. www.nrn.com/quick-servic...

A look at some of the Amazon Fresh stores in their final days, plus more Amazon Fresh info... www.marketreportblog.com/2026/01/amaz...

Here's the latest news from my house, which is located on a quiet street near the intersection of the polar vortex and the bomb cyclone: It is still snowing. And I'm eating everything in site. That's it...

This might be interesting. canadiangrocer.com/canadian-gro...

I don't think I want to know…

Old-fashioned southern-style cafeteria snow...

It's a toasty 56F at my desk this morning as I return to the building for work.

All Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores are closing, and certain locations will become Whole Foods. Most stores close this Sunday, with California locations remaining open longer: www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-...

Apple Weather is now calling for 12-13 inches of snow here next weekend, which converts to 0.5-1.0 earth inches (or about 2 cm as measured by every other civilized nation on the planet).

NEW: Just when you thought there would never be a page on Pocatello, Idaho, here it is. Locations, 1925-2025. www.groceteria.com/place/us-ida...

I think if there's one big takeaway from this weekend, it's that when ice is present, needless injury and death often follows. You can probably read (or capitalize) that a couple of ways. Go ahead. I won't judge…

Sunday night rush hour is always so intense…

A schlocky thriller Directed by William Castle, starring Barbara Stanwyck, with music by Vic Mizzy (Green Acres, The Addams family)? What's not to love? youtu.be/K5RYClikxcc?...

youtu.be/dtqWJvg8p3E?... if we still had super fresh in Hampton you better believe I would be making regular road trips to visit it.

Gonna be a might chilly for the next few days here if the power goes out. And the Apple Weather app (which I only look at for laughs now) is still predicting 12 inches of snow even though literally everyone else is calling for pretty much nothing but ice.

Does the extra 6 make it a third worse than the Devil's Task?

I have successfully purchased the last jug of distilled (i.e. CPAP) water in town. My work here is done.

Stock levels were a little low at Aldi this evening.