Been there. Later on it became a Walmart which closed long ago.

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Caldors and Bradlees were the place to shop back in the day.

As my grandma always called it “Caldors”.

and Two Guys!

With Zayre's thrown in.

Everyone called it "Caldor's." And we were all wrong.

That newspaper looks like it was printed on paper purchased at Caldor.

I loved the Caldor's in Manchester as a kid. My parents used to take us there to buy a toy before we went on vacation each year. It was even my first job in High school at the jewelry counter.

Caldor on New Britain avenue. Bradlee on Park Street and Two Guys on Berlin Turnpike. All vanished

Aw man I remembered the Black Fridays with my parents there waking up at 3:4 am.

I still have pictures developed at caldor's wirh the caldor stamped envelope.

I wonder if places we know today will go the way of bradlees, caldor, etc.

I never realized it was singular till your comment. Even reading the post, just thinking Caldor’s. I always called them Caldor’s too!

Right across the street from each other when they were around! Fairfield 90’s when I remember them. I feel like a k-mart was close by too…

It’s wild they shared the lady and kid’s full address back then

I still call the Brookfield Federal Road location "where Caldor's used to be"

I was conceived by two Caldor employees who met on the job in the 1980s.

Twenty five years later, their store manager became my store manager at a Kmart.

Wow! I never knew there was a Caldor grand opening many years ago. So many memories! 😮🙂

My mother adds so many consonants to brand names it's almost ridiculous: "Lowell's", "Barnes & Nobles", "Best Buys"...

When kmart store manager is your endgame

They will and are

So strange how they publish your name and address back then

She from Norwich? Swear that’s a Norwich thing.

Nah, New Britain actually.

Kohls contain the ghost of Caldors in their buildings

Don't forget Ames! It was also a CT-based company, like Caldor. (Bradlees was based in Braintree, MA.)

Now that's what I call upward mobility

(Sarcastic reference to your manager's career path, not a comment on the mechanics of the conception)

That cashier could afford a 5000 sf home and college tuition on her salary.

I miss it & Bradlees

Wow !

I did too. This might be a Berenstein bears situation, I swear I can picture the sign with an s on it

Now it's Extra Space Storage

The majority of people then had their name and address right in the phone book.

A news article seems weird though. But yeah that’s true

Caldor, the king of loss-leader.

Lol! Love this!

Even wilder than that is that the lady is just Mrs. Husband’s name, not her own name. Trusted with her neighbor’s toddler but not to have her own first name in the paper.

Anyone else remember the Amazing Store in Manchester?

I sometimes think it was a figment of my imagination because no one else remembers it.

It was a close-out store that bought stuff when other stores went out of business. It was kind of like what Ocean State Job Lot was, but at least a decade before that.

When I was a kid my mom went grocery shopping at Heartland in Manchester.

I dont remember that name, but I do remember Two Guys and RR Salvage

and Woolworth,Zares, Ames