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| Today's post highlights Shelby County, TN, retail. |
Thanks to an anonymous commenter on the End-of-Year Kroger Statuses post where I told you guys the Hickory Hill Kroger would be closing, we can now see inside the store! S/he directed me to the website of Grafe Auctions, which is tasked with selling everything left regardless of price. They have pictures of everything up for sale at this link (you can also access the online bid room from there, if you're interested - the auction is Thursday, March 3rd at 10:30AM - but if you want anything it'd probably be best to be able to go to the store in person). All of the photos below are from the store's auction page linked previously. I only chose specific pics, mostly décor focused toward the end of the post, mixed in with some other behind-the-scenes stuff I thought was cool. There's plenty of others to see there though, plus more can be found by searching their website for other Kroger auctions! Enjoy! :)
UPDATE - Courtesy of B-More Retail on Flickr, here is a link to additional pictures (that look to be from before the store's closure!) on Grafe Auctions' Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/grafeauction/posts/10153903140564259
Thanks again to that commenter for pointing this out, and Grafe Auctions for taking such great pictures! This is what's going on in Hickory Hill... until next time, have fun exploring the retail world wherever you are!
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That would be a neat auction to go to. I doubt there wouldn't be a rush for any of the signage, as most of the people who go to supermarket auctions look for the shelving, refrigeration units, prep equipment, and things like that.
ReplyDeleteI never knew that website existed. I browsed through it hoping to find some Albertsons from my area, but I couldn't find any. However, I did manage to find pictures of a Wavy Pastel Publix and a Winn-Dixie with a really weird interior that I've never seen before, so that was really neat! I might have to do a blog post like this myself sometime soon.
I agree that there wouldn't be a rush. Of course, I'd have no way to transport or store much of the signage even if I was able to go! :P
DeleteVery cool, looking forward to seeing that! I'm glad the commenter pointed this site out. It also had the American Way Kroger in Memphis that closed last year, but no décor that I could see at a quick glance for that one. I'm now wondering if an auction will happen at the Hernando store before they demolish it.
An auction at the Hernando store might depend on how much equipment is sent from the old store to the new one. Kroger might want to hang onto some of the newer equipment that they can easily transfer to the new store in the weeks before it opens rather then buying it all over again. But it's Kroger, so who knows. Since it's the first Marketplace store in the area, maybe they'll splurge and buy everything new to make an impression.
DeleteAnd I got my posts for those two stores I found written. One will be two weeks from today, and the other will be a month from today. I would have posted one today had I not had something else already going up today. I wasn't expecting to be doing a post a week right now, but it's looking that way for me all the way through March!
I imagine they're going to splurge and get everything completely new. They did that in Germantown at the Farmington store, and the Exeter store had plenty of newer, classier stuff than Hernando currently does!
DeleteWow! I'm just surprised I had the time to throw this one up. For once I had no homework over a weekend!
Wow, I'm impressed you could do so much with this! �� I actually kind of figured you guys were already following these sort of websites, since there's a lot of retail stuff that comes up there. You might want to follow this page to find these in the future... ProxiBid is what I usually use to find these things, particularly through the aforementioned Grafe Auctions, SAM Auctions, which has had a bunch of stuff from the collapse of Fresh & Easy and Haggen, and also Walmart stuff. This site seems like it would be a good resource too... if it's interface wasn't so awful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for those links! And I can't speak for AFB, but nope, I had no clue about any of this :P I have seen some post-closure pictures of equipment in a store, but never realized they were from a broader auction website.
DeleteI remember Daniel found some auction photos of the Jonesboro neon store, but I'm unsure what website they were on.
ReplyDeleteSo are they going to let you take the drywall and all with some of the wall decor, and was the frozen foods sign already spoken for!?
One more thing, kind of off subject but Kroger related: did someone send me a message last week (through Google Maps!?) about the Germantown Kroger having WiFi? If so, the answer is yes, and apologies but I don't even know how to answer a Google Maps message (if there even is such a thing!)
The Jonesboro ,AR store from 1996 was on Grafe Auctions.
DeleteI remember looking at a website for an ethnic supermarket in Charlotte (Super G Mart) and seeing a Kroger millennium sign there.
Sometimes supermarkets will keep the equipment if it's in good condition.
I dunno, haha! Why, do you have an eye on the frozen foods sign? ;)
DeleteI know nothing about that... or that Google Maps messaging was a thing! 8|