When this supermarket on Fort Wayne's south side was opened in 1956, it was advertised as the largest grocery store in the country. Originally called Eavey's, it was bought by the Fort Wayne based Scott's Foods chain in the late 1960s.

In 2007, Kroger bought out Scott's, whose stores were located throughout northeast Indiana, including several Fort Wayne locations. Kroger closed the Decatur Road store, with its famous giant cornucopia sign, in January of 2009.

The store's abrupt closing upset a lot of Fort Wayne residents, who feared that the well known landmark would be demolished. As of 2012, the empty store and its iconic sign still stand, but there are no plans for it to be used for anything new in the foreseeable future. The store opened in a prosperous middle class area that has become an impoverished, high crime neighborhood in the intervening decades.

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Update: The iconic cornucopia sign was disassembled and removed on August 17, 2023. News reports say that the building is going to become a church, after sitting empty for 24 years.

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