It isn't very often that the Bethel Valley Girl blog gets to announce something hot off the presses. It was announced in this morning's paper that the Port Orchard and Gig Harbor Haggens grocery stores are going to revert back to being Safeways again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is indeed big--and welcome--news. We have two Albertsons grocery stores in Port Orchard. We had one Safeway, and it and one Albertsons were there when I moved here 40 years ago. No one was happy when Albertsons bought out Safeway, but at least Albertsons kept it a Safeway. Then Bellingham-based Haggens bought up quite a few Safeways, including the ones in both Port Orchard and Gig Harbor. The transition was uncomfortable. No one liked the new high prices or the brands. The customers dwindled, and several months back came the big announcement that Haggens was going bankrupt and closing many stores, including the ones in Port Orchard and Gig Harbor. These are big stores, and it has been disconcerting to see the 'Store Closing' signs on these prominent businesses. Our pastor even worked that in to last Sunday's sermon. Well, I wonder if this news will make it in to tomorrow's sermon? At least it made it in to our blog! It was the 'end of an era,' but it's coming back, just like A&W did, just like Lighthouse did. Which gets me to thinking about Port Orchard stores and restaurants that have closed over the past 40 years. This topic deserves a blog post of its own, so stay tuned for "Gone But Not Forgotten."
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