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Here's a look at Memphis-area grocery stores' holiday hours. Kroger locations will be closed on Christmas and open normal hours on New Year's Day, ALDI (all locations): Open 9 a.m.-4 p.m ...
Here's a look at how grocery stores around Memphis are handling the holiday this year. Unless otherwise noted, each will be open regular hours on Wednesday and Friday, Nov. 27 and 29.
Seessel's was founded in 1858, [1] when Henry Seessel opened a meat stand in downtown Memphis. The first Seessel's Supermarket opened on Union Avenue in 1941. In 1997, brothers Art and Jerry Seessel, the fifth generation of the family to operate the business, sold the supermarket to Alabama-based Bruno's Supermarkets.
In Tucson, Alpha Beta-branded stores changed to ABCO-branded stores around 1989. Some Alpha Beta stores carried more than the customary supermarket merchandise. For example, in 1980, a Cupertino, California , Alpha Beta store sold Bohsei color TVs for under $200 (~$740.00 in 2023), Atari 400 and 800 computers, and other goods.
Piggly Wiggly was the first self-service grocery store. [5] It was founded by Clarence Saunders on September 6, 1916 [6] (although it did not open until five days later due to delays in construction), [7] at 79 Jefferson Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. [2]
The first Easy-Way store was opened in downtown Memphis in 1932 by Pate Carter. [1] [5] In December 2003, the downtown store was damaged in a fire that destroyed an adjacent grocery store, but it had no structural damage, and reopened less than one month after the fire. [6] Produce-only stores were first added in the early 1970s. [5]
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Fred's primarily competed against national, deep-discount chains Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree, and against independently owned stores. Most locations were in towns with populations of 15,000 or less. The company has had two distribution centers: one in Memphis, another in Dublin, Georgia.