Despite being marked as "5000 Antoine", this is the Kroger in better days. (Houston Post, 07/28/1992).
Originally, 5153 Antoine Drive was home to Kroger (a "Superstore" model, store 160) from 1975 to around the mid-2000s (Fallas Paredes, which used the 5151 Antoine address, leased part of the store in February 2007, so it was closed by then). By April 2008 this was divided between Fallas Paredes and 99 Cent Only Stores (with a "Watermill Express" water kiosk in the parking lot). By 2015, this was now a vacancy on the south end of the store, YouFit Health Clubs, and King Dollar on the north end. This arrangement would be kept until 2020, and by 2022 the entire building was vacant again before Value Village opened a store in the former King Dollar later that year. March 2023 brought the opening of a Gordon Food Service Store (which makes sense--the trucks just have to travel south from their distribution center).
I visited this particular store in November 2025. While it didn't have cookies or rotisserie chicken, this location did have a popcorn shop, so I bought some black cherry flavor that mostly tasted like colored sugar, but still good anyway. (Would've preferred something like Dr Pepper, which is what the glaze reminded me of, had similar experiences).
It looks delicious but I can't fit that in my freezer.
Note: This is an ongoing effort to dismantle Antoine Drive in Houston (Houston, Texas), which still has eight other entries as of this writing.
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