Gray Reid's presence at CARSON MALL was short-lived. The store was shuttered in 1969. A Disco discount department store operated in the space between 1969 and 1975, when J.C. Penney moved in. With the closing of the Safeway supermarket in the early 1980s, a plural Penney's was set up. On the mall's periphery, a Carl's Junior fast food restaurant opened in January 1984.