Southeast
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Trader Joe’s
Trader Joe’s was founded in 1967 by Joe Coulombe in Pasadena, California, though the company began in 1958 as a chain of Pronto Market convenience stores in the Greater Los Angeles area, originally a subsidiary of Rexall. The company operates a curated assortment of specialty foods and groceries, emphasizing private-label products, value pricing, and a…
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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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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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Albertsons
Albertsons Market is a North American grocery company based in Boise, Idaho, with more than 240 supermarkets throughout the United States. History In 1939, Joe Albertson and partners L.S. Skaggs and Tom Cuthbert opened their first one-stop shopping market, which they named Albertson’s Food Center, in Boise, Idaho. By 1945, Joe Albertson incorporated the store…
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Kash n’ Karry
Kash n’ Karry was a Florida-based convenience grocery store that has since been absorbed by Sweetbay Supermarket. History In 1914, Italian immigrant Salvatore Greco began selling fruits and vegetables in the streets of Tampa, Fla. In 1922, he and his wife, Giuseppina, opened a storefront at their home and developed it so that, in 1947,…
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Sweetbay
Sweetbay Supermarket is a grocery store aimed to please both the bargain shopper and the upscale customer. History Opening its doors in Seminole, Fla. in November 2004, Sweetbay Supermarket was formerly known as Kash n’ Karry. Through a series of acquisitions and failed efforts to save the Kash n’ Karry stores, the chain was reorganized…