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The company's expansion continued throughout the mid-20th century. In 1932, Jewel acquired the Chicago unit of the Canadian firm Loblaw Groceterias, Inc., then a chain of 77 self-service stores, [11] as well as four Chicago grocery stores operated by the Middle West Stores Company, and began operating them under the name Jewel Food Stores. [12]
In June 1960, Jim Fleming Jr. and his father sold their 55 Flemings stores to Woolworths Limited for $10 million. In the early 1970s, Jim Fleming Jr. acquired Warman's Stores in New South Wales. Fleming gave it a new name, Jewel Food Stores, and pushed it into the same discount end of the grocery retailing business as Flemings. [2]
Albert Eisner, Sr. (1851-1926), a Hungarian immigrant, incorporated Eisner Grocery Company in June 1906 in Champaign, Illinois.In 1919, he entered into a franchise agreement with Piggly Wiggly, the first self-serve grocery store, [1] and opened a few Piggly Wiggly locations in Champaign and the surrounding areas.
Eisner Food Stores – downstate Illinois chain acquired by Jewel Food Stores, stores converted to the Jewel name by 1985; Family Mart – Florida-based Family Mart division of A&P was closed in 1999; Farmer Jack – Metro Detroit; acquired by A&P in 1989, closed July 7, 2007, then liquidated
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Sales at clothing stores decreased 0.2%. Grocery store sales also declined 0.2%. Sales at miscellaneous retailers, which include florists and gift shops, dropped 3.5%, extending the prior month's ...
In June 1984, American Stores acquired Jewel Companies. [3] The following year, Buttrey Foods took full ownership of all 31 Buttrey-Osco stores and rebranded them as Buttrey Food & Drug stores. [3] In 1986, American Stores relocated Buttrey's headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah, home of American Stores' Skaggs-Alpha Beta division. [3]
The first sign of this was the sale of the Harvest Day bakery in Rock Island, Illinois, to Metz Baking Company in 1998. The company went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2000. [1] In 2003, Eagle Food Stores ceased operations and sold its assets. Some of the stores were acquired by other chains, such as Hy-Vee, Kroger, Jewel, and Butera. [2]