From the Archives: Tops #722 and #724

In today's double-post, we look two Grand Union turned Tops stores not located in the Adirondacks that have rarely been mentioned since they were photographed.

Images of Tops #722 (Stamford, NY) were taken on March 29, 2019 and images of Tops #724 (Coxsackie, NY) were taken on the 1st of March and 12th of September, 2018.

Like #723, this one has the hut-style facade with metal siding. This store as Grand Union had green shingled siding. However, there is one little problem...

In front of the pylon sign is an Ames-branded United Steel & Wire shopping cart from 1999. Apparently these belong to the Core Values Thrift Store across the street, which ironically uses 1990s Grand Union shopping carts. The 2021 Google Street View also shows an Ames cart (possibly this one) in the same place as pictured above.

Cart Tax: This store also happens to have grey Instore carts. What is the story behind these? The full-sized carts prominently don Hannaford logos on their (original) seat flaps, and the express carts have square inserts over top the round handles. The strangest part is Hannaford stores have used the same model of cart(s) for the better end of seven years as replacements for their Precision Wire carts, so how did Tops get these?

In typical Grand Union fashion, the lighted canopy has replaced with a drop ceiling and generic grid lighting.

Now, onto the next store...

This store is an endcap to Hope Plaza.

Cart Tax: Standard 2015-era black shopping carts. Full size one is an Instore; express one unknown.