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re: Schwegmann's - greatest grocery store ever
Posted on 8/11/13 at 6:42 pm to doublecutter
Posted on 8/11/13 at 6:42 pm to doublecutter
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She would point one out and the butcher would grab it and my grandmaw would feel the breasts and if it met her criteria, they would butcher the chicken right on the spot.
Come the phuck on....are we being serious up in here or just trying to make up shite?
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Posted on 8/11/13 at 7:43 pm to JasonL79
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The seafood market was near the front, you picked out what you wanted and they would filet the fish while you shopped, then you picked it up when you headed to the cashiers
It's too bad I was too young to shop there. It's sad no one does this anymore. Most of the seafood I see in grocery stores are frozen thawed out or aren't that fresh.
Won't most places filet a whole fish if you ask? I know that Whole Foods does . . . as does, of course, Big Fisherman on Magazine in N.O.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 7:48 pm to VOR
Schwegmann's was ahead of their time. Shopped there while in grad school at UNO in the late 80s.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 7:54 pm to Tigressa del Norte
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Schwegmann's was ahead of their time.
In terms of centralizing various services, it probably was. On the other hand, it's hard for me to wrap my head around that concept for some reason.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 9:56 pm to VOR
Kid's Week FTW
Posted on 8/11/13 at 10:09 pm to S
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HEB
Great stories about Schegmann's. Only went in the one in NO east once so can't comment on them.
But for today, the HEB at HW99 and S. Fry Rd. in Katy sets the standard.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 10:13 pm to AlwysATgr
Anyone remember the little Schwegmann's inside of the Children's Museum in New Orleans?
Posted on 8/11/13 at 10:17 pm to RedFoxx
Yes! Place was golden on field trips in elementary.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 10:20 pm to Sherman Klump
It became a Winn-Dixie after Schwegmann's went away and is a Rouses's now I think.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 10:47 pm to RedFoxx
This thread has brought back a ton of memories. I shopped at the store on airline with my mom through my whole childhood. That was a huge and awesome grocery.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 10:50 pm to Tiger Attorney
Zuppardos still has the old time feel
Posted on 8/11/13 at 11:00 pm to Lester Earl
Once school was out,mom would take me to Schwegmann's on vets to get a new dip net from the sporting goods department. 
Posted on 8/11/13 at 11:44 pm to JasonL79
Making groceries Schwegmann's style.
We went to the one on Airline and the one on Power when I was a kid. I also have fond memories of Canal Villere. Unfortunately, choice is not an attractive business idea for grocery stores anymore, now all you get is cheap limited cookie cutter stores, unless you go to ridiculously priced places like Whole Foods.
We went to the one on Airline and the one on Power when I was a kid. I also have fond memories of Canal Villere. Unfortunately, choice is not an attractive business idea for grocery stores anymore, now all you get is cheap limited cookie cutter stores, unless you go to ridiculously priced places like Whole Foods.
Posted on 8/11/13 at 11:58 pm to andouille
Loved this store as a kid 
Posted on 8/12/13 at 3:18 am to andouille
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chocolate covered ants, canned lion meat, fried grasshoppers
Posted on 8/12/13 at 9:58 pm to andouille
I grew up down the street from the David Drive and Airline location, I can remember going to see my aunt at the bank and then going upstairs for a haircut at the barber...
Forgot all about that.
Forgot all about that.
Posted on 8/12/13 at 10:40 pm to CITWTT
And a sportingg goods section. W duck decoys
Posted on 8/12/13 at 10:46 pm to Tiger Attorney
Remember when the vietnamese replaced all the other workers?
Posted on 8/14/13 at 1:33 pm to choupiquesushi
The one on Power was near my school, so Mom and I would go to that one to do our grocery shopping. Dad would always rib us because we'd come home with a half-eaten loaf of french bread because we couldn't help munching on it as we shopped.
I remember the one on Vets (which is now where Lowe's is, no?) was MASSIVE - it sold everything, I think even TVs and lawnmowers.
The other one they built further down Vets near Kenner always seemed so small, in comparison.
Speaking of how bad it got for Schwegmann's near the end, I was working for Sav-A-Center at the time and we started putting together pallets of items that Schweg's was buying from us because suppliers wouldn't sell to them anymore.
I remember the one on Vets (which is now where Lowe's is, no?) was MASSIVE - it sold everything, I think even TVs and lawnmowers.
The other one they built further down Vets near Kenner always seemed so small, in comparison.
Speaking of how bad it got for Schwegmann's near the end, I was working for Sav-A-Center at the time and we started putting together pallets of items that Schweg's was buying from us because suppliers wouldn't sell to them anymore.
This post was edited on 8/14/13 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 8/19/13 at 2:07 pm to mightynine
I'm a bit late on this thread. The one on Old Gentilly Rd. in New Orleans was HUGE. I went there in the '50s and '60s. It had a big sign across the front that was something like "The World's Largest Supermarket." Nothing else like it in the early '50s. Everyone then walked to the corner grocery stores, which was something like 1,000 sq. ft., or less. The Gentilly Schwegmanns was 155,000 sq. ft.!
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