Smitty’s Marketplace Arizona

January 23rd, 2010 | by admin |

Smitty’s commercial advertising stores conversion to Marketplace format. The stores then were renamed to Fred Meyer Marketplace, and then to Fry’s Marketplace.

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  1. 17 Responses to “Smitty’s Marketplace Arizona”

  2. By interspectrum on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Ahhh, Gemco. …
    Ahhh, Gemco. Arizona’s original Wal-Mart. So many things put on layaway! If I remember right, we layawayed an Atari 2600 from there.

  3. By serranol08 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    I remember the …
    I remember the first Smitty’s store on 16th Street and Buckeye Rd. Then it became Southwest supermarkets.

  4. By elpablo69 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Last week, I …
    Last week, I returned to “my” old Smitty’s after 16 years. Big disappointment. Fry’s Marketplace is similar, but just not as good. No Restaurant, pizza kitchen, snack bar, barber shop, beauty salon, full service jewelry counter, optical department, clothing/shoes, firearms/ammo, photo lab, video rentals. Tiny electronics dept. Just really nothing like I remember, and nowhere near as cool of a store.

  5. By elpablo69 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Store #7 Baseline/ …
    Store #7 Baseline/McClintock–Tempe.

  6. By ctmikect on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    The original …
    The original Smitty’s concept I remember when I was younger was more like your supercenter type of store, where they did it all, resturaunt, department and grocery. I think they even had a hair salon if remember right. They were just like the original Gemco stores.

  7. By 3fan4eva on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Wow even thou I was …
    Wow even thou I was 7 when they closed…I do remember the snack bar….which one did you live by?

    And for ctmikect,
    Ok I remember there was a Smitty’s right by my house and which was in the old Plaza West at 35th ave & Bethany. And then there was a Smitty’s Marketplace at 19th & Glendale which is now a Frys. So was the difference?

  8. By moccalou on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Oooh, that’s very …
    Oooh, that’s very informative. Thanks! ^^

  9. By ctmikect on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Smitty’s stores …
    Smitty’s stores were an Arizona chain back in I think late 70’s into 90’s. Then they were eventually bought by Kroeger, combined with Smith’s for a short time (both did same sales), then renamed Smitty’s to Fred Meyer, and then renamed them to Fry’s Marketplace. The original Smitty’s were the original big box type of stores with resturaunts, department store along with groceries.

  10. By moccalou on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Weird. We never …
    Weird. We never had Smitty’s in Utah but we still had the same Fred Meyer jingle before they changed it to Smith’s Marketplace. (I know Arizona’s is now Fry’s Marketplace.)

  11. By PSIMS2ROCKS2 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    What happened to …
    What happened to Smitty’s?

  12. By unit1619 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    I work for Fry’s, …
    I work for Fry’s, as a customer I like them and they have great prices, but as an employee not so much…

  13. By serranol08 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Smitty’s was the …
    Smitty’s was the best store around. I’m not a fan of Fry’s Marketplace.

  14. By elpablo69 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Woops! That was …
    Woops! That was supposed to be a public comment…

  15. By elpablo69 on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    Don’t forget the …
    Don’t forget the snack bar! It was seperate from the pizza kitchen, I loved ICEE’s and frozen yogurt with all the crushed candy toppings!!!

  16. By emptykaiba on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    smitty’s had the …
    smitty’s had the best pizza. period.

  17. By ghostchantxx on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    I would like the …
    I would like the Smittys ad with the ‘’supermaket,a drug store, and a whole lot more” guy.

  18. By NTVnetwork on Jan 23, 2010 | Reply

    I was sad to see it …
    I was sad to see it go! Have anymore Smitty’s ads?

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