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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.
The first store opened in 1975 with 4,200 square feet of space. [5] Bonaminio continued to expand the store, adding products at customer request and enlarging and re-arranging the store. In 1988, after visiting specialty markets in Chicago, he decided to make the store an international market as well as introduce the jungle theme. Today, Jungle ...
Grocery stores in the Southern Orchards include Little's IGA (supermarkets). [13] In 1999, the Free Store on Parsons Avenue opened, which accepts donations and distributes clothes and household items to the area’s poor. By the end of this year, 150,000 people will have walked through its doors since it opened. [14]
3. Whole Foods Market. Popularity: 61% Fame: 95%. Whole Foods made organic and free-range mainstream, so it’s no surprise it ranks as the third most popular grocery chain in the country.For ...
Ai Hoa Supermarket – formerly a Chinese-Vietnamese-American chain in southern California; now operates one store in South El Monte [2] Asian Food Center (New Jersey) Arirang Market - Korean chain from Southern California; ASSI Plaza, Korean-American multinational supermarket chain (Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania) CAM Asian Market (Ohio)
The grocery store chain, which originated in Memphis, Tennessee, now has more than 500 locations in 18 states—even beyond the South. In addition to carrying standard produce, ...
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
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 ...