Today, it's the home of Texas Thrift but I'd like to take time to talk about what was previously written on Carbon-izer a while ago. Located on 2200 E. Veterans Memorial Blvd. (formerly US-190 Business), Safeway #751 opened in 1977 and was converted to 1989 to AppleTree before closing in early 1994. It was part of the group of AppleTree stores that Randalls Food Markets purchased the previous year and after a few weeks of cleanup and repainting, reopened as Randalls (489). By the end of January 1997, the store was shuttered, and Hastings opened within months (Hastings didn't even use all the space, the unused portion went to Family Dollar). This continued until Hastings closed around 2017.
The story of Randalls here is notable because it was the ONLY Randalls store in the entire Waco-Temple-Killeen area and a good hour away from Austin. It wasn't like Lufkin or College Station where a showy but ultimately unsustainable store was built, it was simply a bad acquisition in a lousy space.
Due to its history as Hastings, I doubt any part of Randalls is recognizable inside today.
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