Not Fooling Anybody: Gordmans in Johnstown, NY

As Stage Stores converts all brands under their ownership to the off-price Gordmans label, we will see conversions that still resemble their former selves.

All pictures taken February 21, 2020.

This one is located in the Johnstown Mall in Johnstown, NY. Believed to be White-Modell, this was converted to Peebles around the late 1990s. A Peebles labelscar is very distinct due to the Gordmans logo being smaller.

As these are quick conversion, very little is changed other than decor and computer/inventory systems.

Another thing that has changed is Gordmans uses real shopping carts, instead of the "department store carts", which are basically strollers with a pouch for merchandise. Gordmans actually kept the Peebles ones, fully untouched. One oddity is these carts come with a cupholder, which is off-putting since this doesn't seem to be the type of "department store" to even sell soda or water as a convenience item.

Well, at least these aren't 2019 units, ha ha.

More Work than Normal: Tops of Warrensburg, NY

In our second installment of Grand Union turned Tops stores, we take a look at a slightly renovated conversion. All pictures taken February 21, 2018.

Nice try Tops, but that gable is not fooling anyone. This store appears to have received the most work of all of them.

Impressively modern produce area. Renovations here give it a sense of identity from the rest of the store.

Dairy. Green tile suggests some renovation in the 1990s.

So Tiny! Tops of Chestertown, NY

For the time being, I will be going through the archives and posting some supermarket locations covered over the past couple of years.

What we will be seeing here is a cute little Tops store in Chestertown, NY. All pictures taken on February 21, 2018.

Look at that roofline! It spans the entire width of the building. One of many Adirondack Grand Union stores to become Tops in 2001, Grand Union Family Markets in 2006, and back to Tops in 2013.

3 checkouts! All of which contain their original Grand Union light covers. UPDATE: These light covers have since been replaced with the white triangular ones.

In these smaller stores, the first aisle combines produce on the wall and condiments on the other side of the aisle.

Meat and Deli in the back.

Crowded frozen foods and beer aisle.

Some of these stores kept their rusty Unarco shopping carts from their first run as Tops. Unlike the other ones that did, these are smaller, and dated 2-03.