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Tom Thumb (grocery store) Tom Thumb is a chain of supermarkets in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It operates under the name Tom Thumb for traditional grocery stores and Flagship Tom Thumb for higher end stores in affluent areas. [citation needed] It makes up part of the Southern division of Albertsons.
The Tom Thumb logo was changed to one similar to Randalls, but the Tom Thumb name was retained. Already in Austin with the Tom Thumb name, Randalls added its own name to the market in January 1994 when the company bought 12 AppleTree Markets stores (ironically a grocer formed with former Safeway locations as a result of Safeway leaving Texas in ...
Store expansion slowed, although new stores were opened in strategic locations. By the mid-1990s, the company had managed to survive the stiff challenges from other chains. Food Lion began closing stores in 1994 and exited Texas in 1997. In 1996, Minyard was the third-largest grocery chain in Dallas-Fort Worth, behind Tom Thumb and Albertsons.
A Tom Thumb grocery store will close permanently in February, but parent company Albertsons says it remains committed to the North Texas market.
Albertsons Companies, Inc. [1] [2] is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho . With 2,253 stores as of the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 and 270,000 employees as of fiscal year 2019, [3] [8] [6] the company is the second-largest supermarket chain in North America after Kroger.
Simon David. Until its closing in 2010, Simon David was the oldest gourmet and specialty foods store in Dallas, Texas. Simon David was a long-time specialty retail brand and division of Tom Thumb Supermarkets. Tom Thumb became a division of Randalls in 1992, which itself became a 112-store division of Safeway Inc. in 1999.
What grocery stores in Texas are open on Thanksgiving Day? ... Tom Thumb-Open from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Central Market-Open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
While Safeway had stores in Alaska, in 1999 they bought Carrs-Safeway, with the same year bringing the purchase of Houston-based Randall's Food Markets, which also had stores in Austin, Texas. Randalls also had stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area through Randalls' other brand, Tom Thumb , along with gourmet grocery store Simon David .