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Wow! How about Harold's?
Posted on 09/30/2018 6:53:10 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The longtime family-owned Chicago grocery chain Treasure Island Foods informed employees last week that it will permanently shut down its six remaining locations next month.
“Unfortunately, given the current industry conditions, it has been impossible for us to continue to operate without losing money.”
A helpful note to the hungry horde, Taxes are too damn high in DuPage, look elsewhere.
Too many five finger discounts?
One of the few places you could get gourmet food in Chicago in the 70’s and 80’s. Stop and Shop was the other.
Chicago started to die when the old Daley machine stopped managing it, now it's on life support.
As for the much touted DuPage County, it's a RINO haven, you can keep it.
My impression is that this was always a small chain.
I know in much of North Carolina back in the early 90s shoplifters got support from police and judges.
“One of the few places you could get gourmet food in Chicago in the 70’s and 80’s. Stop and Shop was the other.”
Definitely. Sad to see them go, but that market is saturated now with Whole Foods, other specialty shops, and even the local Jewel stores stock so much more than anyone did back in those days.
It’s now a very tough market. Hope the owners stocked away enough to keep them well
55 years keeping a business going is a very good run.
Like many things, restaurants can go out of style for that city. The best customers get older, die, move out of the area or change their customs. I’ll bet you anything that some of these people will go on to open their own smaller businesses.
Once you know how to make a retail business work, it’s hard to walk away from it completely, unless we’re talking about
up in age people ready to retire from that routine completely. Don’t be surprised if you hear of several business wanting to use that name “Treasure Island” for their own place, with maybe some little change in the spelling or presentation.
More likely skyrocketing taxes, labor rates, insurance costs...
Yeah, it was a small chain, but in very good neighborhoods and you paid for that.
Chicago started to die when the old Daley machine stopped managing it, now it’s on life support.
True until Jr. X ed Meigs Field, sold the Skyway, the parking meters...
As for the much touted DuPage County, it’s a RINO haven, you can keep it.
Sadly once a bastion of conservatives, now diluted by an enemy within.
Late on a quiet night, you can hear a distant humming sound.
The sounds of the Crook County machine sucking money out of the suburbs.
Did the employees dress like Pirates ?
Too many five finger purchases?
I should have made it clearer, IMO Jr. was not part of the old Daley machine. You would have thought he would have learned a thing or two from daddy besides how to steal money. You've got to provide some service or you'll kill the Goose.
After thinking it over, I’ve decided who needs Treasure Island, when you have Moo & Oink?
Moo & Oink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A genuine blast from the past.
50 pounds for $9.95.
We accept food stamps.
I have not read the Sun-times in a long time, to check current ads, I looked them up...
Sadly Moo&Oink are gone.
Wow! How about Harold's?
For many years I worked at 58th and Cottage.
I doubt there was a way out to the western suburbs, that doesn’t pass a Harold’s, Chicken Shack.
Rode in an adventurous carpool, many interesting stops, I do not recall stopping at Harold’s.
We did pick up some nice watermelons.
Ribs too!
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