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Doscher's IGA Owner:  Johnny Doscher III Opened:  1974-2022 Cooperative:  IGA Location:  1133 Savannah Hwy, West Ashley, Charleston, SC Photographed:  June 2022 Contributor:  Carlton Swift We are returning to Charleston, South Carolina for an update at Doscher's IGA, which we saw in a tour not too long ago. I haven't been back to Charleston since my initial visit in January 2022, but our contributor Carlton Swift who lives in the area was able to capture Doscher's during its store closure on its final days. The store is set to be demolished for a residential development. Carlton gives us some information on the store itself too: A&P opened in 1963 as a Centennial and closed in 1974. Doscher's opened the same year. The store was expanded to its current size and shape in 2003. We'll see where the building originally ended. Interestingly enough, that means the facade we see here was actually constructed in 2003 and is not an original Centennial facade. Th...

Doscher's IGA Owner: Johnny Doscher III Opened:  1974-2022 Cooperative:  IGA Location:  1133 Savannah Hwy, West Ashley, Charleston, SC Photographed:  January 2022 Today's store tour is a very interesting one! We begin with my history with the store. I received an email from a reader back in April 2020 about A&P decor, and this reader ended up sending me a few pictures of this Doscher's IGA. (Those are the first two, daytime pictures we see here. It occurs to me that I never asked if or how you'd like to be credited, so if you see this, please let me know if you'd like me to credit you by name!) I was fascinated by the fact that this store is immediately next door to a Whole Foods and has coexisted with the Whole Foods since 2018. I was also fascinated by the decor inside, which we'll see shortly. So thanks for these daytime pictures! Now onto my own pictures, and some history of the store itself. We're also touring the Whole Foods today, which you can c...