Anyone remember Gemco?
Gemco was located where Target in Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill are currently located.
Gemco was a chain of membership department stores that was owned by San Leandro-based Lucky Stores. They ended up closing in 1986.
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Interesting was their alot of thievery those days
Great store – had real sporting goods as well as everything else – nothing really replaces it
I was a KID, but liked I Gemco, before that it was White Front….One in Pleasant Hill Too, I think, where CarMax is now…When I heard ‘Target’ (who dat?) was taking over, I thought, with a name like that they will never survive. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha…..Silly Girl.
Whatever happened to the city of Gemco had
that giant sign you could see from the freeway?
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Ignacio.r, … Retail theft was very low back then.
What we are experiencing these days is a creation of democrat governance.
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My dad worked at Gemco, Redwood city then Walnut creek then Pleasant hill before Lucky stores sold to Target.
The days when the cost of living was more real. Just multiply by 3 to see how much it has inflated. And don’t forget those are sales prices advertised.
The average income was close to 5 or 6 bucks an hour in 1975.
I worked at Gemco in WC and also White Front in PH in outside automotive in the 70s.
Loved them both and loved the customers back then unlike the smucks today coming into stores and stealing and dressed like doomsday just happened.