GTB Area Retail Blog

A&P Food Market #41-107/Publix #721 4305 State Bridge Road, Alpharetta, GA - Alpharetta Commons Opened on May 22, 1997 as A&P Food Market #41-107 and is 69,000 square feet in size. Later sold to Publix and reopened as store 721 on September 2, 1999 after 2 years as an A&P. The primary entrance is under that large arch and Publix sign. Photos are courtesy of Google Maps unless otherwise noted. After entering through the main entrance, you are greeted with produce and floral, plus the deli/bakery departments. This store completed its most recent remodel in December 2011 into a prototype version of the Sienna interior used by Publix. This part of the store reminds me of a Kash N' Karry, similar to an image found  here . I'm not sure of what interior was used by this store during the A&P days, but I will say "Fresh 1.0". Looking towards the grocery part of the store from floral, we can see that this store has not 12 or 16, but 20 total aisles! This is one ...

  Now that I know how to use Paint (dot) net, I am restarting store recreations! Albertsons #4374 opened in 1989 to replace an older Publix supermarket that opened in 1956. Publix returned to Britton Plaza in 2009 after 49 Albertsons stores were sold to Publix. Publix #1307 lasted until March 2015, when that store was closed for a complete rebuild.

Publix opened their first Georgia location (store #412) on November 20, 1991. That store lasted for 14 years until closing in 2005. Being a 70,000 square foot location, this is a larger-format early 1990s Publix supermarket. The normal stores would have been in the 45,000 to 50,000 square-foot range. Another grand opening photo of the same store, which must have been taken at 7 or 8 in the morning. I think that when store 412 opened, the interior would have looked like this, with pastel colors and frames. Enough about the first Georgia Publix, let's move on to a currently-operating store! Publix #536 2451 Cumberland Parkway SE, Atlanta, GA. This Publix opened in 1996, and is a 65,000 square-foot early 1990s Publix supermarket. Another similar Publix store can be found in  this AFB blog post . The next 5 pictures are from this store's second and most recent remodel in 2011/2012. The deli and bakery was undergoing a massive renovation as a result of this remodel. You will see the...