"The Real Superstore"

[CarolinaPig]

I remember going with my mom for BIG shopping trips. My brother and I would fight over who put the cart back, i.e. keep the quarter. I remember very little about it except that it was HUGE, I loved the cakes they had in the bakery and the generic brands that came in plain,bright yellow boxes with the contents in lowercase black block letters like "cat food" or "beer".

Funny, I was thinking about The Real Superstore a few weeks ago and came across this blog entry about it. Abandoned Baton Rouge: The real Superstore : No prices every day

[Innotech]

Its a canadian company and the stores still exist up there. They completely pulled out of the US market.

[topaz47]

I found this post on the Baton Rouge City-Data page and had to comment. I was one of the first employees at the Super Store in Baton Rouge when it first opened around the early to mid 80's. I think every person and family in Baton Rouge shopped there when it first opened as it was unique in appearance and had just about everything you could imagine. For the first few months, all registers had unending lines of customers waiting to be checked out. I really think it was a phenomenon at the time. There were several different departments (kitchen wares, bakery, florist, beauty, seafood and hot deli). I worked as a cashier and customer service and most of us were all transplant employees from the old National Food Stores that closed. I recall working 70 hours a week during the first month of its grand opening. I eventually left the grocery business and went to work as an admin assistant for an insurance company (Union National Life) on old Goodwood that went out of business. I believe the Superstore was sold off, but what great memories in its beginnings.

[Nic0]

I worked at the Lafayette location in 1986. It was great at that time!
Lots of cool merchandise. They introduced generic packaging: plain white package with plain black lettering.
The fresh bread from the bakery would never make it home-it was too delicious.
It appears in the movie "The Host", based on Stephenie Meyer's (Twilight author) book.
What a shock it was to see the store in the movie! Talk about a flashback.

[Big L]

Is the building still there? I recall seeing it when I started college in B.R. in 1994. It was closed then and I couldn't understand why it was still there. Fast forward to 2016 and I still don't understand why it is still there.

[annie_himself]

I couldn't have been closed in 94. I was born in 91 and remember going there, I know I was older than 3.

But yes, still there, homeless people live there.