The Independent Edition

Quik N Save Owner: Yogendra Shah Opened:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  3234 Cromwell Dr, Norfolk, VA Photographed:  January 2020 I'm not too much of a fan of convenience stores, but this roughly 2300 square foot store caught my eye mostly because of the sign on its roof. You can't see it too well unless you zoom in and really focus, but there's actually (above the Convenience Store sign) a series of individual letters spelling out MARKETS. I can't find anything on what this was previously, and because of the building's size and apparent age I doubt "markets" referred to a full grocery store, but instead I bet it was a chain convenience store. It's not the oldest or most exciting relic out there, but I thought it was worth snapping a picture of nonetheless. Tomorrow, we're heading about two and a half miles southeast for a look at two supermarkets and one former supermarket in the Janaf area!

 Look at that, we're moving on to our next mid-Atlantic group tomorrow! And yes, there's a slightly different banner design here prompted definitely by my desire to update the blog's look to keep it trendy and modern, and definitely not prompted by the fact that an unfortunate incident involving an external hard drive lost about a year and a half worth of stuff that I had saved. Anyway. We are moving on to the greater Norfolk area, and this part of Virginia is referred to as Hampton Roads. Virginia Beach and Newport News are some of the other cities in this area, although we won't be visiting Newport News sadly. As I mentioned yesterday, this is not the most exciting group of stores simply because I was only in the Norfolk area for a family reunion, which is not the most conducive to photographing large quantities of supermarkets. But I was able to get some, so we'll be spending about two weeks in the Norfolk area. Come back tomorrow to jump right into a store tour ...