Taking Tops out of the Baseball Game

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

    To finish off the Tops to Grand Union locations, we now tour one last location that I have in my archives in Cooperstown. This location was also a P&C Foods and it appears little was done to update this location. The only evidence of Tops making a change, outside of the obvious logo swap, was adding the Tops slogan of 'Your neighborhood store with more.' The decor appears to be a rare surviving P&C decor at a Tops. Given that we are near Cooperstown, this location relies quite heavily on using a unique spin by using baseball related decorations. I'm not sure if that was an addition Tops made or if it was original to P&C. You'll notice teams from all over the country can be spotted. Hopefully Grand Union will continue to use it. 

The proximity of the dollar stop to HBA and the lower ceiling suggests there could have been a pharmacy here at one point.

Former Kmart #7342

 

    To start our series of Kmart tours in 2022, we will first visit the unique former Watertown, NY Kmart. This location was indeed one-of-a-kind as it sported a really unique exterior design with a tower in the parking lot. Sadly, this unique architecture was removed last year when replacement tenant Runnings took over the space. 

    When Kmart did operate here, it had a Little Caesars right up until liquidation. A pharmacy was also in operation, though it had cut back hours. By all accounts, it appears this location that this location was opened in the 1990s. I managed to capture views of this location both during normal operation and its liquidation sale in 2017. We will start with photos of normal operation.

The liquidation sale: