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In July 1988, the company started its hyperstore Big Bear Plus concept in Wintersville, Ohio (140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2)), and Bridgeport, Ohio (100,000 sq ft (10,000 m 2)), the stores featured 40 percent food and 60 percent general merchandise. The concept was a combination of its Harts Stores (29 stores in 1991) and the Big Bear Grocery format.
In 1954, Big Bear Stores Co., Columbus, OH based supermarket chain purchased Harts Stores, [1] a department store that was operating at the time in the basements of two Big Bears. Harts experienced rapid growth, as Big Bear often opened grocery stores along with a Harts Department Store in an adjacent space as well as many free-standing ...
Convenient Food Mart was the nation's third-largest chain of convenience stores as of 1988. [2] The NASDAQ exchange dropped Convenient Food Mart the same year when the company failed to meet financial reporting requirements. [2] Carden & Cherry advertised Convenient Food Mart with the Ernest character in the 1980s.
Store brands saw the biggest growth in deli, pet care and produce items. Meanwhile, both store and national brand sales dipped for meat, baby care, frozen and health and beauty products.
Canned Foods Warehouse opened its first independent store in Redmond, Oregon, in 1973. [4] Following founder James Read's death in 1982, his sons Steven and Peter took over company management. [4] In 1987, the company was renamed Grocery Outlet. [6] [7] Grocery Outlet's 100th store opened in 1995. [13]
GoMart, Inc. is a convenience store chain based in Gassaway, West Virginia. The company currently operates over 100 stores in most of the state of West Virginia, and border areas of Virginia and Ohio. Most Go-Mart stations are unbranded. Go-Mart is the 53rd-largest convenience store chain in the United States. [1]
Founded as a 51% foreign-owned company in 1995, it opened its first supermarket in Varna in 1994 and became 100% Bulgarian-owned in 2003. Piccadilly was known for its near-complete dominance of the market in Varna to the extent that it prevented large international chains such as Billa from opening new stores.
CBA is a Hungarian supermarket chain with almost 5,200 stores. It operates in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. [1] There were 134 stores in Hungary in February 2018. Most CBA stores have grill bars, bakeries, butcher's and wine shops.