Butera Market, also known as Butera Finer Foods, is a family-owned chain of supermarkets. These supermarkets offer complete services and are located in various areas of Northern Illinois. The company takes pride in being able to provide its customers with friendly service, good quality products at reasonable prices.
History
Butera Finer Foods was founded by Paul Butera Sr. and his brother Joe Butera in 1968. The stores mainly focused on providing its shoppers with farm fresh produce, local as well as international food and deli items at very affordable prices.
In the early part of the 1990s, the company underwent a major change in ownership. From being a wholly family-owned business at the start, Butera Finer Foods became a company that is now owned by its employees.
Since its foundation in 1968, around 25 supermarkets under Butera Finer Foods have been established in the state of Illinois. Additionally, it was also able to purchase three stores, also in Illinois, from the bankrupt company Eagle Food Centers. For more than 35 years now, Butera Market has been, and is continuing to be, a leader in the state of Illinois’ low priced supermarkets. Despite competitors such as Dominick’s Supermarkets, Jewel-Osco and the ALDI Group, the company was still able to attract a solid base of loyal patrons.
Currently, the company is being run by the twin Butera brothers Joseph and Paul Jr., with Paul Jr. being the CEO. From 25 Butera Market stores that were previously owned by the family, only 10 stores are now being handled by the Butera brothers. The rest of the stores were sold as franchises. Butera Markets can now be found in Harwood Heights, Norridge, Roselle, Lindenhurst, St. Charles, Naperville, South Elgin, and Algonquin. These stores also come with additional services to make the costumers’ shopping experience as convenient and hassle-free as possible. These additional services that can be found in the supermarkets include a Charter One bank branch, ATMs, a Lottery ticket booth, a Western Union branch and dry cleaners.
Stats
Headquarters: Elgin, Illinois
Company type: Private
No. of Stores: 10 family-owned stores
Annual revenue: undisclosed
No. of Employees: 500
Geography: Illinois
Demography: value shoppers, price shoppers
Special Services: full-service supermarket (includes a bakery, meat/seafood shop, farm fresh produce, imported and domestic delicacies, dairy department, grocery department); Charter One Bank Branch, Automated Teller Machines, Cleaners, Lottery Tickets sold or redeemed, Western Union money orders
Banners
Butera Market
Butera Finer Foods
Brands
Velveeta
Verdura
Frutta
Certified Angus Beef
Important Links
Corporate Home Page
Online Shopping N/A
Circular and Specials
Jobs and Careers N/A
Store Locations
This company only hires rude ignorant employee. Vito at the Palatine store ignorant and rude. Try hiring someone who is college educated
Might help.
He’s ignorant and rude !
I’ll NEVER RETURN.
I’m going to spread the word as well.
I was at the South Elgin store butera grabbed a half gallon of buttermilk with a reduced sticker on it went to the deli somebody walked to my car grab my half gallon of buttermilk out of it accuse me of trying to steal and put stickers I’m half gallons of buttermilk totally totally ridiculous
If Butera is a family owned store, then the Frankfort store is the redheaded stepchild of their family! They are not courteous managers and show total lack of professionalism in dealing with my complaint.
I sent a written complaint directly to the store manager and evidently he was too busy to deal with my complaint. A store service desk employee called me back and said that I had read the sign wrong and I should have taken a different brand, NOT the store brand. It was my fault?????? I didn’t think so. I can read. I think she could have, at some time, just said “sorry”. My complaint was over 2 bottles of apple juice that I was charged an extra $2. Yes, $2!!! They needed it that bad?
I will go out of my way to never shop at that store again.
First time shopping here after visiting my sister in Lake in the Hills. Bought som rib eye steaks that looked great. I cooked them to medium rare – perfect! These were the toughest steaks I have ever tried to eat! $16.08 down the drain….won’t be back.
I have absolutly no idea what “ground beef” I have been eating all these years from jewel or heinens or costco but I went to butera for Lithuanian pickles a friend recommended. So I bought ground beef and more.
Holy crap! 73/27 for burgers. They were so juicy and crumbled like burgers used to do back in the 80’s
As long as they keep this up I will drive the extra 12 miles every time I grocery shop. Next visit I will check out the deli counter.
I live right by the S.Elgin Butera, and have always liked the store, but now, I am very upset. You stopped carrying a product that only your store carries….KEMPS FROZEN YOGURT in the MINT CHIP flavor. I have a serious, rare connective tissue disorder, and it has made my stomach a big mess. This frozen yogurt in Mint has been the ONLY thing that helps…..no medications, other food or teas, or anything. Now, you have taken it away, and you can’t tell me it didn’t sell….it was always being re-ordered, because it SOLD…BIG. PLEASE, I beg you….. help me??? Bring this back in???? I need it.