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Syracuse (Eastwood) - Burnet Ave near NY 635; original Tops stores left Onondaga County in 1986; later P&C until 2004 and now Bill Rapp Nissan
Syracuse (south side) - 4141 S Salina St (US 11, Valley Plaza; previously P&C and A&P)
Mattydale - US 11; later P&C until 1994 and is now Big Lots
New Hartford (CR 24, Kellogg Mall in Washington Mills and NY 5A) - now Hannaford
Utica (east side) - now Hannaford
Whitehall - Grand Union became Tops in 2001, then closed; now Dollar General
Oneida - NY 5; now Price Chopper
Geneva - NY 14A, Pyramid Plaza; later Cherribundi and RealEats, now vacant
Oswego - NY 104; now Price Chopper
Warrensburg, Bolton Landing et al (mainly Adirondack Park) - were GU at first, then Tops, then back to GU and Tops once again (see earlier GU post for more details)
Fulton - now Price Chopper; with Tops later in former Strupplers Big M/Shurfine down NY 48, now River View Pediatrics
Hamilton - NY 12A; was Grand Union, then Tops, then back to GU but is now Hacketts
Cleveland, OH area - were briefly in Cuyahoga County; Erie, PA have the closest ones to them now
Buffalo area - Tops' backyard; given the nature of the business, many have come and gone over the decades. The current count is over 140 yet they count almost 400 total as they include all past locations for tax purposes, as one of the smaller stores ultimately absorbed into Tops told me when they still existed (another blog called Buffalo Stories has some original Tops, HyTop Pharmacy and B-Kwik stores from the '60s and '70s).
North Syracuse - US 11 in village; later Salvation Army, now an estate agent
Henrietta - NY 252/Jefferson Road, now At Home (moved around the corner)
Lyons - NY 31, now vacant
Warrensburg - US 9, now Grand Union again
Sherrill - NY 5, now Grand Union
Rome - NY 46 & 49, now Grand Union, previously P&C for several years
Cortland (1) - NY 281 & 222, now Grand Union
Cortland (2) - NY 222, now vacant; closed by 1994 when new store opened around the corner
Watertown (Pamelia) - US 11, now Piggly Wiggly
Watertown (Seaway/south) - US 11, now Grand Union
Rutland - US 4 & 7, now Grand Union again
Cooperstown - NY 28, now Grand Union
Peru - US 9, now Grand Union again
Saranac Lake (1) - NY 3, now Grand Union yet again
Saranac Lake (2) - now closed
Owego - NY 17C, now Grand Union
Norwich - NY 990L, now Grand Union
Wilson Farms, B-Kwik and Sugarcreek Stores were a division of Tops until they spun off into a separate company and were sold to 7 Eleven (I discussed them before and some Wilson Farms became other things). Tops returned to Syracuse in 2010 when they purchased the lions share of Penn Traffic after their third and final administration (bankruptcy!).
Wilson Farms, B-Kwik and Sugarcreek Stores were a division of Tops until they spun off into a separate company and were sold to 7 Eleven (I discussed them before and some Wilson Farms became other things). Tops returned to Syracuse in 2010 when they purchased the lions share of Penn Traffic after their third and final administration (bankruptcy!).
The old Henrietta one is now an At Home. The old Geneva location is now a warehouse for Cheribundi while the new one closed in November 2018.
ReplyDeletePort Henry and Ticonderoga, NY both had Tops stores in the early 00s. Both were former Grand Unions that became Tops in 2001. The Ticonderoga store closed on 2005. One corner of the former store is occupied by an Aaron’s but the rest of the building sits empty.
ReplyDeleteThe Port Henry store closed in 2006 and sat empty for about a year. It was bought by the small Vermont chain Mac’s Market and reopened under that banner in 2007. Mac’s closed in 2019, and the property was immediately purchased by Stewart’s, who tore down the old building and put up a new gas station/convenience store on the same spot in 2020.