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C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a national wholesale grocery supply company in the United States, based in Keene, New Hampshire. In 2021 it was the eighth-largest privately held company in the United States , as listed by Forbes . [ 3 ]
Piggly Wiggly is an American supermarket chain operating in the American Southern and Midwestern regions run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. [1] Its first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee , and is notable as the first true self-service grocery store , and the originator of various familiar supermarket ...
C&S Wholesale Grocers has subleased portions of the warehouse space to other parties (Rooms To Go is a tenant) since 2008. The warehouse was over 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m 2 ). of space and with the declining volume of groceries shipped from the facility each year, less space was needed to maintain the remaining business.
The company's main facility has over 747,752 square feet (69,468.4 m 2) of space. A 211,611-square-foot (19,659.3 m 2) cooler and freezer is across the street from the main warehouse. Grocers Supply has four satellite warehouses, all in Houston. [5] In 2014, Grocers Supply was acquired by C&S Wholesale Grocers. [6]
Grand Union's Chapter 7 filing had a large effect on its supplier C&S Wholesale Grocers, a New England–based wholesale food distributor of which Grand Union was its largest customer. [12] C&S also was one of Grand Union's largest creditors, and made a stalking horse offer to take control of the company in early 2001 that was approved.
Richard B. "Rick" Cohen (born 1952) is an American businessman and billionaire. He is the majority owner, chairman, and chief executive officer of Symbotic, an artificial intelligence-enabled robotics and warehouse automation company & owner of C&S Wholesale Grocers (C&S), a wholesale grocery supply company, with both based in Massachusetts.
Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independently owned supermarkets and grocery stores. [1] It serves more than 4,000 locations in 36 states in the Midwest , the Southeast , and the Southwest , and from 8 full-line wholesale divisions.
In 2014, Target adopted Symbotic’s technology rather than building a new distribution center in Woodland, California. [ 3 ] In 2017, Symbotic began working with Walmart at their distribution center in Brooksville, Florida , where the company’s automated technology was deployed to sort, store, retrieve and pack freight onto pallets. [ 4 ]