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Ralphs Grocery Company was founded in 1873 in Los Angeles by George Albert Ralphs and his brother, Walter Benjamin Ralphs. [2] Ralphs teamed with S. A. Francis in 1873 to open the Ralphs & Francis store at 5th and Hill – an area which would become the Historic Core of the city in the early 20th century, but was then a mostly residential area ...
In 1954, they purchased the business from their parents. By 1956, the market's sales had jumped from $2,000 a year to $900,000 and the brothers began expanding. Within 15 years, the two brothers had transformed their parents' "mom and pop"-style store into a modern supermarket chain consisting of 15 stores. [4]
They also ran the successful Heartland Foods, a warehouse-style supermarket chain. In 1984, at the time of the buyout by Supermarkets General, Purity, had an annual sales of $800 million (~$1.99 billion in 2023) with 28 supermarkets, 13 warehouse stores and 23 drugstores.
Tedeschi Food Shops was a chain of nearly 200 convenience stores (as of March 2015), located primarily in Massachusetts, with some stores in New Hampshire. It was acquired by 7- Eleven in May 2015, and the transaction closed in August 2015.
Victory Super Markets was a grocery store chain based in Leominster, Massachusetts that included 20 stores across Massachusetts and New Hampshire. [1] It was founded in 1923 by two DiGeronimo brothers and was originally named after the American war effort in World War I. It acquired 4 Shaw's locations in the Boston Metro Area since around 1999 ...
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Charlestown is a census-designated place (CDP) and the main village in the town of Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population of the CDP was 1,078 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] out of 4,806 in the entire town.
Charlestown Town Hall is the seat of municipal government of Charlestown, New Hampshire. It is located just off Main Street ( New Hampshire Route 12 ) at 29 Summer Street. It was built in 1872-73, and is a design of Edward Dow , one of New Hampshire's leading architects of the period.