In this edition of FLASH BACK, we go back to August 5, 2017 to a store that uses not one but two retail spaces that shared a facade.
This store was originally a Price Chopper on the right and Fay's Drug to the left. Price Chopper would move to Mohawk Commons in March 2002 and would be replaced with PriceRite in October of that year while Fay's would become Eckerd in 1997. In 2006, Eckerd closed their Crosstown Plaza store while PriceRite would move down the plaza into the Crosstown Expo (the left half of the former Caldor/Ames). Ocean State Job Lot would open after December 4, 2006 but before March 10, 2007, and would expand into the Eckerd space shortly after. At the time this picture was taken, the shopping center was receiving a major remodel, so the exterior is grey but the Price Chopper facade was still intact, however it would soon be replaced with a dull, boxy facade with odd sizes of fake woodgrain strips.
The front of the store is lined with black tile grid, an artifact from the store's days as Price Chopper. Most likely this was home to the produce area.
Housewares, pet food, electronics and hardware are in the drugstore space. The section where hardware and garden supplies are was part of the pharmacy area.
Rugs line the front of the drugstore space.
Like most OSJL stores, this store was subjected to a lighting upgrade. Here are pictures from March 2019 showing the new LED lighting:
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