Albertsons and Jim's at Oak Hill (Austin, Texas)

The empty Albertsons captured next to a former Shoney's. Own work, April 2010. (From a cell phone camera.)
I originally wrote about this in Safeway and Albertsons in Texas Blog. It is not just completely outdated, it's also wrong in several areas. I did later put more accurate information up on Carbon-izer.com but let's correct the record.

First, let's discuss Jim's at 7101 State Highway 71 West. It was not a former Shoney's as the original link suggests, that information was derived from an article where Jim's had picked up a few Shoney's restaurants in the late 1990s (Temple, San Marcos, Waco) but not Austin, because this was always Jim's.

I've never been to Jim's but it seems that Austin Chronicle was not kind to it, even in 1982 ("Don't let the smiling cowboy fool you"), the year this Jim's opened at 7101 West Highway 71.

The former Albertsons was born a Tom Thumb-Page to be exact, a few years earlier, in 1980. In 1989 it was sold to Albertsons with several other stores (curiously, the better and larger of the Austin Tom Thumb stores; while keeping older ex-Rylander stores) and after a quick reset, reopened as an Albertsons (Albertsons #4006...not its original store number), but in 2007 the store closed permanently as part of the chain's exit from Austin. This one didn't reopen as H-E-B because of their store across the street (which itself it has since closed).

By 2011, the building was divided between Planet Fitness, a vacancy, and Goodwill. Goodwill later expanded into the middle section of the former store, and by the late 2010s, Planet Fitness was gone. The store was then sub-divided further between Emler Swim School, Won's White Tiger Taekwondo, and NAPA Auto & Truck Parts.