Street View from 2018. The old Safeway "Food" and "Drug" signs were removed by 2022.
Outside of Houston, Dallas, and their immediate suburbs, Kroger supermarkets become quite rare in Texas, especially heading into the East Texas/Davy Crockett Forest area. So it was a bit of a surprise to come across a Kroger in Henderson, Texas. It didn't look like a Kroger initially; my suspicions it was a Dallas Division Safeway that was sold to Kroger in 1987 were gradually confirmed. I later found out the Safeway opened in 1980, relocating from an older 1960s store at 102 Richardson Drive which in turn relocated from an even
older store at 212 Van Buren.
I took a few pictures (I didn't actually buy anything initially, though I did end up buying a new and overpriced USB/Thunderbolt cable here (still overpriced) as mine in my car decided to stop working.)
The Safeway "roundel", as
Houston Historic Retail would call it, was filled in with a Kroger logo (the good one that was retired a few years ago).
