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In 1984, Fred Meyer acquired Grand Central of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Grand Central stores in Utah and Idaho were converted to Fred Meyer stores, although most did not receive full supermarket departments until the mid-1990s. Packaged food aisles at the Fred Meyer location at Interstate Avenue and Lombard Street in Portland (Store #701-00150).
Other Kroger Marketplace stores in Texas are in Little Elm, Texas; Fort Worth's Alliance Town Center; Mansfield; [168] Wylie, Texas; [170] and Baytown, Texas. The first Kroger Marketplace in Arkansas opened in August 2010 on Chenal Parkway in Little Rock, Arkansas. Locations also opened in 2012 in Conway, Arkansas and 2014 in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
In 2017, Shun Fat sold the Monterey Park and Rowland Heights locations to Great Wall Supermarket. In June 2019, the popular Asian supermarket opened its first Oregon branch in Southeast Portland's Jade District on 82nd Avenue and Foster Road, formerly a Fred Meyer store. This marked Shun Fat's fifteenth location and first in the Northwest. [4]
The two grocery giants combine for over 30 stores in the Boise area, and with news Friday that Albertsons Companies Inc. is set to merge with Kroger, the company that owns Fred Meyer, we asked ...
In March 1984, Portland, Oregon-based retailer Fred Meyer announced the purchase of Grand Central for US$11 per share, a transactional value of nearly US$25 million. [2] At the time, Grand Central operated 31 stores and employed about 2,900 people in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
In 1997, after the Fred Meyer–Smith's merger, Fred Meyer updated and revitalized the Smitty's concept (naming the stores Smitty’s Marketplace) and in January 1999, all Smitty's stores were renamed Fred Meyer Marketplace, ending the Smitty’s name. During this time, management of Smitty’s changed from Smith's Food and Drug to Fred Meyer.
Earlier, Fred Meyer had closed a full-service store located in Orem that failed to meet expectations. On November 12, 2008, a new Smith's Marketplace store was opened in Lehi, Utah. The store is 170,000 square feet (16,000 m 2). In 2008, Smith's also remodeled the former Fred Meyer store located at 500 East and 500 South in Salt Lake City.
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