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J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, [a] is a British supermarket and the second-largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane , London, the company was the largest UK retailer of groceries for most of the 20th century.
United States historic place Loop Retail Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district State Street in 1907 Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Illinois Show map of the United States Location Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°53′N 87°38′W / 41.883°N 87.633°W / 41.883; -87.633 Area 26 acres (11 ha) Built 1871 Architect ...
Sainsbury's, British business centred on supermarket chain, founded by the Sainsbury family; See also. Harry Arthur Saintsbury (1869–1939), English actor;
Mammouth – The first Mammouth store opened in 1969 near Troyes, and the last store closed in Lacroix-Saint-Ouen on 3 October 2009 after a 10-year delay to close the last store, as it was considered too small for an Auchan hypermarket, but too large for an ATAC supermarket. [45] Rallye – first store opened in Brest in 1968; last closed in 2002
Sainsbury's later took full control of the stores alone in 1989, rebranding them as Sainsbury's SavaCentre, until 2005 when the stores were integrated into the Sainsbury's supermarket brand. The hypermarket stores ranged in size from 66,000 sq ft (6,100 m 2 ) to 117,000 sq ft (10,900 m 2 ) and the discount supermarkets ranged in size from ...
In everyday American English usage, however, "grocery store" is often casually used as a synonym for "supermarket". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The supermarket retail format first appeared around 1930 in the United States as the culmination of almost two decades of retail innovations, and began to spread to other countries after extensive worldwide publicity ...
Since Sainsbury's acquired Argos, more and more standalone stores have been moved into a nearby Sainsbury's store. On 25 September 2019, Sainsbury's announced that over 50 Argos stores would be closing or relocating in order to cut costs. Stores also began to feature digital computers as well as printed catalogues to save costs.
Jacksons Stores Ltd, named after the founder William Jackson, was a British chain of 114 convenience shops in Yorkshire and the North Midlands that was founded in 1891 by the Hull-based William Jackson & Sons Ltd and sold to Sainsbury's in 2004, an acquisition which doubled that company's share of the convenience shop market. [1]