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Also in 1958, the company opened its new headquarters and distribution center on a 40-acre site in Landover, Maryland. In 1957 Giant Food Shopping Center Inc. became Giant Food Inc., and fiscal 1958 saw sales of more than $100 million. In 1959 the company, with 53 stores (including nine Super Giant stores) went public.
Giant logo used before re-branding in 2020. Some stores still use this logo as of 2024. The Giant Company (formerly known as Giant Food Stores) is an American regional supermarket chain that operates in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia under the Giant and Martin's brands.
Officials said crews responded to a food distribution center in the 7700 block of Chesapeake Bay Court in Jessup because multiple people reported feeling sick, reportedly from food poisoning.
Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover was a combined supermarket chain owned by the American subsidiary of the Dutch retailer Ahold.The company took its form in 2004, after Ahold decided to combine the operations of its New England–based Stop & Shop chain with its Landover, Maryland-based Giant Food chain to create the largest supermarket company in the Mid-Atlantic States.
Acme is the third-largest food and drug retailer in the Delaware Valley, [3] where it competes with such chains as Ahold's Giant-Carlisle, Giant-Landover, Food Lion, and Stop & Shop; Wakefern Food Corporation's ShopRite; Walmart and its warehouse club subsidiary Sam's Club; BJ's; Costco; natural/organic products retailer Whole Foods Market ...
Jessup is located at (39.138374, −76.774929 According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.3 square miles (13.6 km 2), all land.As of the 2010 census, the center of population for the state of Maryland is located on the grounds of the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup.
The 28,000-square-foot (2,600 m 2) Giant Food store opened at the $10 million shopping center on 36 acres (150,000 m 2) with 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) of store space, on September 16, 1957. [1] At the time it opened it was the largest and most expensive shopping center in the Washington, D.C., area. [2]
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