GEMCO Membership Department Store

Gemco Department Store going out of business sale commercial from the 80s. Gemco was part of the Lucky's Grocery store chain.

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• gemco
• lucky
• grocery
• supermarket
• department
• store

[peteo100]

Target is Gemco, owned by the same company, they declared bankruptcy as Gemco and opened up under the Target name.

[ctmikect]

@peteo100 Gemco was owned by Lucky's Supermarkets. They closed the Gemco stores to stage off a hostile takeover. Many locations were bought by Target and other companies. Lucky's also divested of other stores they had during this time. 

[annidez]

My then-teenaged brother made an artful but fake Gemco card with the name Pontius Pilate on it. Nobody ever noticed. Gemco, Alpha Beta, Zodys and Whitefront are all stores I remember from my LA area childhood.

[SurfingTrucker]

Ha! I worked at a Gemco in the Chino area and they had me do the stupid announcement that played in the store about it being a Going Out of Business Sale. Nothing like working and hearing your own voice overhead all friggin day.

[cmmolthr]

@swfan007 There was also one out in La Mesa (the La Mesa Springs Center, University/La Mesa Blvd/Allison area) it is what is now Vons and one up in Kearny Mesa on Balboa, just west of Convoy) that later became Lucky Advantage, then Lucky-Savon, then Albertsons-Savon, and now it's empty.

[PJCoan]

I remember the Gemco in Santa Ana on Seventeenth and Grand- it was always crowded- always. When it closed, it became a Target. Anyone remember the Fedmart in Garden Grove? They had the BEST jelly donuts in the world. We kids would swear to God to be good while our parents shopped there just so we'd get a hot, fresh jelly donut. Now, it's a Toys"R"Us. Progress.

[FreakCitySF]

Looking to borrow a Gemco card, message me if you have one that I can borrow!

[DetroitLove4U]

Gemco should still be around these days. I remember Smith's Food King Mart endeavored in the mid-90's to take the stage in California where Gemco left roughly a decade earlier but I never understood why they pulled out altogether?

[slombardo101]

My under standing is when Gemco folded

Target bought most of the Gemco/Memco

owned properties as a Entry to the West cost. Some of the leased properties were just let go.