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Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independently owned supermarkets and grocery stores. [1] It serves more than 4,000 locations in 36 states in the Midwest, the Southeast, and the Southwest, and from 8 full-line wholesale divisions.
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 ...
Village Pantry was founded as a convenience store chain division of Marsh Supermarkets, founded in Yorktown, Indiana. The first Village Pantry location opened in 1966 in Muncie, Indiana. [1] In September 2006, Sun Capital Partners purchased Marsh and its divisions, including Village Pantry, $325 million. [2]
In 2014, Garden Ridge converted all stores to the At Home brand and floorplan. [7] The rebranding project changed the use of orange color for advertising to a soft grey and blue, and added a house symbol for the "o" in At Home. [8] The rebranding cost around $20 million. [8] At Home publicly filed an S-1 on September 4, 2015, to go public. [9]
Slogans for the chain include "Just Right" and "Fresher Ways to Save". In 2015 it was the largest grocery store chain in the Kansas City metropolitan area in terms of both sales and number of stores. Its biggest competitor in both Kansas City and Des Moines is Hy-Vee. [1] [2]
The idea of the Wally's business had originated in 2017 when cousins Michael Rubenstein and Chad Wallis of rural Missouri were experiencing an unexciting drive home from Colorado and came up with the proposal for their own convenience store and gas station that would serve as a tourist attraction for travelers.
Incidentally, Home Depot opened a store on the same plot of land Two Guys occupied in the mid-1990s (after Two Guys went out of business, the Totowa store was subdivided and redeveloped into a shopping center anchored by Bradlees; Bradlees later moved to a newly built store, and the part of the old Two Guys building it had occupied was ...
Local Americanas store in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil In Brazil, most convenience stores are installed at gas stations; over 8,100 stores are operating at service stations. In 2019, over 3,100 individual convenience stores were operating in the country. [ 30 ]