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Big Bear Stores was an American regional supermarket chain operating in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio, and was headquartered there until its acquisition by Syracuse, New York–based Penn Traffic in 1989.
Big Bear Stores – Columbus, Ohio based chain; stores closed or sold to Kroger by 2004. Unrelated chain in San Diego with same name sold to Fleming Companies and Albertsons in 1994; BI-LO – dissolved in 2021; Bohack; Bottom Dollar Food – acquired by Aldi 2015; Boys Markets – converted to Ralphs or Food 4 Less in 1994 [112] Bruno's
In 1954, Big Bear Stores Co., Columbus, OH based supermarket chain purchased Harts Stores, [1] a department store that was operating at the time in the basements of two Big Bears. Harts experienced rapid growth, as Big Bear often opened grocery stores along with a Harts Department Store in an adjacent space as well as many free-standing ...
Big Bear was the first supermarket in the country to use cashier-operated motorized conveyor belts and the first to use an IBM mainframe computer. In the 1980s, its Big Bear Plus stores combined a supermarket with a general merchandise store. Penn Traffic operated 70 Big Bear and Big Bear Plus stores in Ohio and West Virginia until early
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The Cumberland store closed in December 2003, and the Hagerstown store closed in August 2005. Giant Eagle has aggressively expanded its footprint in the Greater Columbus area, capitalizing on the demise of the former Big Bear supermarket chain, and taking Big Bear's traditional place as Columbus's upmarket grocer. Giant Eagle first entered what ...
Rapidly rising rents and dwindling sales, however, became too much for the luxury retailer to bear. In the summer of 2019, Barneys — which by then included stores in San Francisco and Beverly ...
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