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Lucky Stores was founded by Charles Crouch as Peninsula Stores Limited in 1931 with the acquisition of Piggly Wiggly stores in Burlingame, San Mateo, Redwood City, Palo Alto, and San Jose. By 1935, seven more stores had been added, including the company's first stores in the East Bay, in Berkeley, and in Oakland. [5]
Gemco was an American chain of membership department stores that was owned by San Leandro-based Lucky Stores, a California supermarket company which eventually became part of Albertsons. Gemco operated from 1959 until closing in late 1986. A number of the west coast stores leases were sold to Target which fueled
2006 – Acquires Albertsons stores in the Sacramento, California area, San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley and northern Nevada and converts them to Lucky and Save Mart stores in 2007. The acquisition marks the company's first foray outside of its home state of California. 2012 – Rebrands Monterey Bay Save Mart locations into Lucky stores.
Alpha Beta stores in Northern California and San Diego County were taken over and rebranded by Lucky Stores, which in turn was acquired by Albertsons, triggering another rebranding. Many of the Northern California stores were subsequently sold in 2006 to Save Mart Supermarkets , which had acquired the rights to use the Lucky brand and logo from ...
In 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit awarded Albertsons an injunction against Grocery Outlet over its use of the Lucky brand name in a Rocklin, California, store. [20] In 2009, the company added "Bargain Market" to its store branding. In 2011, Grocery Outlet acquired the Pennsylvania-based chain Amelia's Grocery ...
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In 1932, Crouch and four [1] partners purchased six of the former Clarence Saunders Piggly Wiggly [2] stores in the San Francisco peninsula area and founded Peninsula Stores, Ltd., in 1935, [3] it became Lucky Stores, the first [4] Lucky Store at Shattuck and Bancroft in Berkeley. [5] [6] [7] In November 1937, Crouch was a General Manager.
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