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A commissary at the Scotts Run coal mining camp, 1938, near Morgantown, West Virginia Commissary for sharecroppers, on display at the Louisiana State Cotton Museum. A commissary is a store for provisions which can include prepared foods for eating either on-premises or off-premises. It is usually run within an organization such as a mining ...
The commissaries’ 82-item stock list of 1868 was comparable to the stock assortment in a typical civilian dry goods grocery store at that time. Commissaries kept pace with developments in civilian supermarkets, and the average commissary today has more than 12,000 line items; the largest stores have several thousand more. [2]
Sheetz, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores. [3] Its stores, which are open 24/7 year-round, offer made-to-order fast food, and most include a gas station, while a few locations are full-scale truck stops, offering showers and a laundromat. [4]
Up to $50 of commissary items can be purchased per offender every calendar quarter. The top 100 selling commissary items are available for purchase, including food snacks, hygiene products, and ...
In 1991, the company owned 986 convenience stores in the U.S. states of Texas, California, and Georgia, all operated by it as "Stop-N-Go", and it had 6,300 employees. It was the largest operator of convenience stores in Houston and San Antonio. In the fiscal year of 1991, National Convenience Stores lost $10.5 million. In the first quarter of ...
The department was overseen by a Commissary-in-Chief from 1809 to 1816, and by a Commissary General in Chief from 1858 to 1869. Between 1793 and 1859 Assistant Commissary, Commissary and (from 1810) Chief Commissary were (civilian) ranks in the Field Train Department of the Board of Ordnance (the field force element of the Ordnance storekeeping ...
Kum & Go, L.C. is a convenience store chain primarily located in the Midwestern United States. Started by William A. Krause and Tony S. Gentle, the company is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa and operates 400 stores in 13 states—primarily in its home state of Iowa .
An exchange is a type of retail store found on United States military installations worldwide. Once similar to trading posts , today they resemble modern department stores or strip malls . The terminology varies by armed service; some examples include base exchange ( BX ), and post exchange ( PX ), and there are more specific terms for subtypes ...