Fry’s Food Stores is a supermarket chain based in Arizona, USA. The company is owned by The Kroger Co.
History
Fry’s Food was founded in Contra Costa County of California in 1954. The founder was Donald Fry, who was originally from Oklahoma. It was with the help of his brother Charles Fry that he opened the first store. Fry’s Food stores sold products like bakery, deli, dairy, frozen foods, general grocery, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks and liquor. While studying, Charles Fry was the high school basketball player. Before opening his first supermarket in California, he also earned a degree in Mathematics. Over the next few years, the company expanded. In the 1960s, he opened 41 new Fry’s Food stores in and around California. These were located in San Francisco, Phoenix and Arizona.
Charles Fry had three sons, John, Randy and David. John Fry was an excellent football player. In 1978, he graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Mathematics like his father. During his studies, he was also recruited to Santa Clara football team. But, he had to retire from football due to serious injuries. So, after studies, he decided to join his father’s business. In 1972, Modesto, California based Save Mart Supermarkets bought Fry’s Food for $14 million. But, Charles Fry maintained it until 1978. After that, the Fry family left the supermarket business and opened electronics stores. By the 1980s, Fry’s Food became a division of The Kroger Co.
In 1998, the Fred Meyer Company announced a merger with Kroger and this was approved by Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1999. Thus the merged company was named The Kroger Co. At that time, Smith’s Food and Drug was a subsidiary of Fred Meyer. After the merger, many stores in Arizona and Texas overlapped. Most of Smith’s Food and Drug stores changed their name to Fry’s Food and Drug Inc. Some of the Smith’s Food and Drug stores in Kingman, Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City have remained under the old brand name.
Stats
Company Headquarters: Tolleson, AZ, United States
Ownership: Private subsidiary of The Kroger Co.
Annual Revenue: $50 million
Geography: Arizona
Demography: Value shoppers.
Special Services: pharmacy, photo lab, Ticketmaster, liquor, specialty grocery
Banners
Fry’s Marketplace
Brands
Private Selection, Private Selection Organics, Naturally Preferred, Kroger Brands, Active Lifestyle, Value Brands, Comforts, Mirra cosmetics, Fresh Selections.
Important Links
Corporate Home Page
Online Shopping(N/A)
Circular and Specials
Jobs and Careers
Store Locations
Recall Information
I've always liked grocery shopping at Frys food stores their prices and their employees and their treatment to their customers and their supposedly pro-life stance of the unborn. However, I've noticed recently they have permitting Girl scouts to sell cookies at outside their stores in the Phoenix.area Also I've noticed that nationally they have allowed Planned Parenthood people to some of their sessions/meetings, which brings up a red flag and very disturbing to me. Why they would allow such pro- death group, and their killing of the unborn and their beliefs of promiscuous lifestyle at their meetings is something that cannot be understood here. Why parents of loving children would allow their children to join girl scouts and listen to this group of evil people is something I cannot believe.For that reason,I will not buy Girl scout cookies and not shop at Fry's Food stores until Girl scouts sever their association with P.P. Sorry:
The Editor; Arizona Republic Newspaper:
You might be interested to know of a censorship program which is underway at Basha’s Grocery Store in Maricopa (maybe elsewhere, for all I know). It is the policy of the store to remove advertisements of which they disapprove from the Arizona Republic Newspaper each Sunday.
The next step, I suppose will be to do a little redacting of headlines for which the store owners have the same disapproval from the Arizona Republic Newspaper.
As far as I am concerned, it is a growing form of censorship. The next step for such people will be to have the library ban certain books from the library, and well, I guess you know what will happen then.
Albert Copley, Maricopa
I want to thank you for the neat coyote shirt that was given to everyone at the play off hockeygame. I am from Montana but attended the first game at the Jobbing Area with the Coyote's vs the Chicago Blackhawks. Exciting, great game and now I have the t shirt for a reminder….Neat way to encourage the White Out.
I friend has a beautiful set of southwestern dishware she got at your store. I want to purchase a set…How do I go about doing that? Joyce