grocery chain
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Star Market
Star Market was a New England supermarket chain based in Greater Boston, founded by Armenian immigrant Sarkis Mugar in 1918. Over its nearly century-long history, the company became known for self-service innovation and regional prominence before passing through multiple corporate ownerships—Jewel Tea, American Stores, Sainsbury’s, and Albertsons—and ultimately landing under SuperValu ownership in 2006. By…
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Shaw’s
Shaw’s traces its lineage to two separate retail ventures founded in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1862, George C. Shaw opened a small teashop in Portland, Maine, which later evolved into a grocery operation. Independently, Maynard A. Davis established a group of downtown grocery stores in Brockton and New Bedford, Massachusetts, known as…
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Bottom Dollar Food
Bottom Dollar Food is a grocery chain owned by Food Lion LLC that sells primarily pre-packaged food items at a discounted price. History The first Bottom Dollar Food model was opened by Food Lion LLC in High Point, N.C., on Sept. 21, 2005, with the intent of catering to the needs of discount grocery shoppers…
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Aldi Foods
Aldi , short for Albrecht Discount, is an international discount supermarket chain based in Germany. History In 1946, brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht took over a small store in a suburb of Essen, Germany, their mother had opened in 1913. Soon after they opened another retail outlet nearby and by 1950 owned 13 stores in the…
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Delhaize Group
Delhaize Group operates in seven countries across three continents as a food retailer. Its primary business is managing the operations of food supermarkets. History Founded in 1867 by Jules and Auguste Delhaize in Charleroi, Belgium, the Delhaize Group was originally a wholesale supplier to retail grocery stores. The company expanded into the supermarket trade in…
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Food Lion
Food Lion LLC A wholly owned subsidiary of Delhaize America, Food Lion LLC is a discount supermarket chain. History Food Lion LLC was created in 1983, when Delhaize America, a division of Delhaize Group, renamed Food Town Stores Inc. – the southeastern grocery chain it had purchased in 1976. Food Lion, based in North Carolina,…
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Harveys Supermarkets
Harveys Supermarkets is a grocery chain with stores in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina that focuses on small-town values and sustainable, local products. History John Harvey created J.H. Harvey Co. LLC in 1950 in Nashville, Ga. and rapidly expanded the company into a chain of grocery stores, growing from 22 stores in 1981 to 70…
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Eagle Country Market
Eagle Food Centers is presently a chain of 40 independent supermarkets that are owned and operated by the employees, under the banner of The Downtown Eagle Corporation. They currently operate in Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois. The company was based out of Milan, Illinois, which is near the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. The…