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A grocery store ( AE ), grocery shop ( BE) or simply grocery [1] is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, [2] which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, [3] and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries.
Meijer was founded as Meijer's in Greenville, Michigan, in 1934 by Hendrik Meijer, a Dutch immigrant. Meijer was a local barber who entered the grocery business during the Great Depression. His first employees included his 14-year-old son, Frederik Meijer, who later became chairman of the company.
Tesco entered the United States grocery market in 2007 through the opening of a new chain of convenience stores, named Fresh & Easy, on the West Coast (Arizona, California, and Nevada). [154] The company established its U.S. headquarters in El Segundo, California , and the first store opened in Hemet, California in November 2007, with 100 more ...
asda .com. A bust of co-founder Peter Asquith outside Asda House in Leeds. Asda Stores Limited ( / ˈæzdə / ), trading as Asda and often styled as ASDA, is a British supermarket and petrol station chain. Its headquarters are in Leeds, England. [ 9] The company was incorporated as Associated Dairies and Farm Stores in 1949.
Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs were the names of a pair of chain pharmacies that operated in the United States. Osco Drug was founded by the Skaggs family. Alpha Beta grocery store was purchased by American Stores in 1961. Skaggs Drug Centers bought American Stores in 1979 and assumed the American Stores name. Sav-on Drugs was a California-based ...
Wegmans is a privately owned company, founded in 1916 by brothers John and Walter Wegman as the Rochester Fruit and Vegetable Company. [ 13] Originally starting as a produce cart, the first store opened in 1917 at 72 West Main St in Rochester, New York. [ 14] Wegmans is headquartered in the Rochester suburb of Gates.
Acme Markets Inc. (stylized as ACME Markets) is a supermarket chain operating 161 stores throughout Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, the Hudson Valley of New York, and Pennsylvania and, as of 1998, is a subsidiary of Albertsons, and part of its presence in the Northeast. It is headquartered in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania ...
Publix. Presto! Publix Super Markets, Inc., commonly known as Publix, is an employee-owned American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. [1] Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and past employees and members of the Jenkins family. [5]