Eckerd Lives On At Rite Aid

Over the past few years, I've done my best to capture the various decors used at Rite Aid stores. So when I saw a couple of pics from fellow blogger NY Capital Region Retail about a Rite Aid still using a decor package from Eckerd, I knew I had to visit in person. This location is in Auburn, NY along Grant Avenue and it was quite fun to see for me in person.

An older photo of the location I had to dig out from my photostream vault. I was thinking I already had an exterior picture, so I didn't bother taking a new one.

Slap on the Rite Aid logo and call it a day.

While I know some may say it is lazy on Rite Aid's part for doing little work to change the store from an acquisition, I'm a fan of preserving history in a subtle way like this. 

Former Kmart #3425

 NOTE: This post comes from outside of the blog's coverage area.

After viewing a few Charleston Kmart area stores, I feel its time we look a little west and work our way back. This month's Kmart tour happens to be of the Barboursville location which also served the city of Huntington, WV. The only thing worth noting about the Barboursville Kmart is that this location was among the few that repurposed the former auto center space into a garden center. I actually have a bit of a story to tell with this location I haven't spoken of before, but we will get into that later.

Although I was never confronted about it, apparently somebody had complained to an employee about me taking pictures of this store. I only became aware of this thanks in part to my mother who happened to overhear the conversation occur while checking out a few items at the register. She had waited for me in the front of the store and given me a heads up. In an interesting turn of events, I had already taken all the pictures I wanted and was leaving anyways, so even if I had been talked too it wouldn't of mattered. It did appear that someone was about to try to talk to us, but we were going out the door so nothing was said.