Common unofficial retailer combinations in your area

[roadman65]

Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.

In the Midwest it's Hardees.

[kphoger]

Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.

In the Midwest it's Hardees.

I see Subway and Love's paired together a lot more.

[roadman65]

Loves Truck Stop and Arbys are usually together.

In the Midwest it's Hardees.

I see Subway and Love's paired together a lot more.

Whatever Happened to Hess and Blimpie?  Or better yet Hess and Godfathers Pizza?

I know Hess got rebranded as Speedway and I am not sure about the two food stores in there.  However, Speedway does sell Dunkin Coffee.

[kphoger]

Whatever Happened to Hess and Blimpie?  Or better yet Hess and Godfathers Pizza?

I know Hess got rebranded as Speedway and I am not sure about the two food stores in there.  However, Speedway does sell Dunkin Coffee.

Pertinent post from another thread:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12478.msg2364721#msg2364721

[roadman65]

Whatever Happened to Hess and Blimpie?  Or better yet Hess and Godfathers Pizza?

I know Hess got rebranded as Speedway and I am not sure about the two food stores in there.  However, Speedway does sell Dunkin Coffee.

Pertinent post from another thread:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=12478.msg2364721#msg2364721

It does not cover Godfathers Pizza.

Anyway there is always Google if it directs to the right links.

Edit:  Yes they are still around but very few.  It linked me to their website and location finder.  I thought they went belly up. 

[Bruce]

A reminder: this thread was supposed to be for unofficial retail combinations that happen by coincidence, rather than contracted pairings (like the travel center ones being described)...

[kphoger]

A reminder: this thread was supposed to be for unofficial retail combinations that happen by coincidence, rather than contracted pairings (like the travel center ones being described)...

Wasn't that edited into the OP five days later?  And didn't the thread title not have the word 'unofficial' until that time either?

At the time I first started reading this thread (and thus first read the topic and OP), it said nothing about that.

[Road Hog]

I've noticed that many Esso gas stations (Esso is Canadian Exxon) have Tim Hortons in them.

I remember (going back several decades) when stations were branded as "Esso" in most of the US and as "Enco" in a few other parts of the US before they were re-branded as "Exxon" (around 1973 I think).
So, rather than "Esso is Canadian Exxon", you might say "Exxon is USA Esso"

Not picking on you, just showing a fun factoid.

They are still branded as Esso in Europe as well. I guess if one is old enough they could remember when it was still Humble Oil too.

[Brandon]

At one time, many Chicagoland malls would be anchored by the following pairs:

Montgomery Ward & Wieboldt's - Carson Pirie Scott would often join them (Yorktown, Lincoln Mall, Orland Park Place, Jefferson Square, Startford Square (with Field's oddly enough), Randhurst).
Sears & Marshall Field's (Park Forest Plaza, River Oaks, Orland Square, Louis Joliet Mall, Fox Valley, Oakbrook Center, Hawthorn, Spring Hill Mall, Woodfield).
But never really mixed between the two pairs (Old Orchard and Stratford Square notwithstanding).

One would also find often Walgreens in the same center with Dominick's as Dominick's, at the time, lacked a pharmacy, unlike the official pairing of Jewel and Osco (aka Jewel-Osco).

[ibthebigd]

Furniture Stores like to be near each other.

SM-G950U