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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 operates and supports corporate grocery stores and serves independent franchisees under a chain-style model throughout the Midwest, South and Northeast. C&S owns the Piggly Wiggly grocery brand, which is independently franchised to store operators, the Grand Union supermarkets brand, as well as several private label brands, including Best Yet.
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Kroger and Albertsons are selling roughly 400 stores to Piggly Wiggly’s parent company in an attempt to win antitrust approval for the mega merger between the grocery stores.. C&S Wholesale ...
Piggly Wiggly Was a Big Store. On Sept. 6, 1916, the world's first Piggly Wiggly opened to great fanfare at 79 Jefferson Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. Saunders had launched an advertising blitz in ...
Kroger exited the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area in 1970, selling 16 stores to Quality Foods, which rebranded the stores to Piggly Wiggly. [citation needed] Kroger exited Milwaukee in 1972, selling a few stores to Jewel. Kroger would later return in 2015 upon its acquisition of Roundy's. [citation needed]
On December 21, 2020, two independent Piggly Wiggly owners, with support from C&S Wholesale Grocers, announced plans to acquire one BI-LO supermarket in South Carolina and another in Georgia from Southeastern Grocers. Both locations were previously Piggly Wiggly stores that were acquired by SEG in 2013. [53]
In January 2008, three additional Southern Family stores in Alabama were converted to Piggly Wiggly's as well. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] On April 30, 2009, as part of the Bruno's Supermarkets bankruptcy proceedings, Southern Family Markets agreed to purchase 31 Bruno's locations on a " going concern " basis in a $45.8 million deal.