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Based in the St. Louis area, the company was founded in 1939 with the opening of a 1,000-square-foot (93 m 2) store in north St. Louis and currently operates over 100 stores [5] in four states throughout the Midwest (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin). Schnucks also ran stores under the Logli Supermarkets and Hilander Foods banners. [6]
In July 1988, the company started its hyperstore Big Bear Plus concept in Wintersville, Ohio (140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2)), and Bridgeport, Ohio (100,000 sq ft (10,000 m 2)), the stores featured 40 percent food and 60 percent general merchandise. The concept was a combination of its Harts Stores (29 stores in 1991) and the Big Bear Grocery format.
A company store is a retail store selling a limited range of food, clothing and daily necessities to employees of a company. It is typical of a company town in a remote area where virtually everyone is employed by one firm, such as a coal mine. In a company town, the housing is owned by the company but there may be independent stores there or ...
Theodore later handed the running of the company to his sons Thomas and John. The company's grocery wholesale business waned in the 1910s and 1920s, prompting the company to concentrate more on retail. Under the name of JayC Food Store of Scottsburg, adopted in 1927, the company grew to a peak of 44 retail locations in the 1940s.
With the 1997 demise of its owner, Burt Prentice Flickinger Jr., who had been instrumental in the success and growth of "S.M. Flickinger Co.", the company started a slow demise, and the last store disappeared in March 2010. Flickinger's son Burt III works as a consultant in the grocery industry.
Lucky's opened its first store in the state of Kentucky, its sixth in the nation, in May 2014 in Louisville by holding a "bacon cutting" ceremony. [15] [16] The company opened its first store in the state of Michigan in February 2015 in the university town of Ann Arbor. [17] A second Michigan store was opened in Traverse City in January 2017. [18]
The Kingsdale Co. purchased the center in 1977 and completed a $4 million remodeling project in 1982. [6] In its early days, Kingsdale attracted high-income shoppers from the suburb to anchor stores Lazarus and The Union. [7] Other tenants included Madison's, an Ohio-based women's clothing store, and an S. S. Kresge Corporation dime store.
On December 21, 2012, news came that the company had entered into a preliminary agreement with the Village of Glenview, Illinois, to build a new Heinen's store on the site of a building formerly occupied by a Dominick's supermarket, which had closed six years earlier in 2006. [5] The Glenview location opened May 7, 2014.