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Niemann Foods, Inc. (NFI) is a company headquartered in Quincy, Illinois, United States, that owns and operates over 100 supermarkets, pharmacies, convenience, pet and hardware stores mostly under the County Market, County Market Express, Harvest Market, Cenex One-Stop, Haymakers, ACE Hardware, Pet Supplies Plus, and Save-A-Lot banners in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri.
Three Springfield, Illinois, stores independently owned by Niemann Foods (two of which are former Jewel-Osco stores acquired from the Cerberus-led group) had a franchise to use the Cub Foods name as part of the stores' branding. These stores also carried selected Cub Foods-branded products under the same agreement.
Wegmans is a privately owned company, founded in 1916 by brothers John and Walter Wegman as the Rochester Fruit and Vegetable Company. [15] Originally starting as a produce cart, the first store opened in 1917 at 72 West Main St. in Rochester, New York. [16]
There are many large grocery retailers who operate under many different brands. The supermarket companies in the United States are organized in this article, but to see a worldwide list, see List of supermarket chains .
Osco Drug traces its history back to 1915 by S.M. Skaggs in American Falls, Idaho as a cash and carry store. His son Lorenzo L. Skaggs, who had been involved in the predecessor to Safeway, founded the Pay-Less chain in 1937 in Rochester, Minnesota. In 1942, these chains merged with others and formed the Owners Service Company, shortened to Osco.
Schnuck Markets, Inc., doing business as Schnucks (), is a supermarket chain. Based in the St. Louis area, the company was founded in 1939 with the opening of a 1,000-square-foot (93 m 2) store in north St. Louis and currently operates over 100 stores [5] in four states throughout the Midwest (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin).
In 2002, the company changed its corporate name to Grocery Outlet, Inc. [13] Grocery Outlet purchased 16 Yes!Less grocery stores in Texas and another in Shreveport, Louisiana, from Dallas, Texas-based Fleming Cos. in January 2003. [17] All 17 stores were closed by May 2004. [18] The company promoted MacGregor Read and Eric Lindberg to co-CEO in ...
Randalls Food Markets was founded by Robert Randall Onstead, R. C. Barclay, Norman N. Frewin and T.A. Morgan in Houston, Texas, on July 4, 1966, with the purchase of two existing grocery stores. [ citation needed ] The first Randalls opened in 1966. [ 8 ]