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Niemann Foods, Inc. (NFI) is a company headquartered in Quincy, Illinois, United States, that owns and operates over 100 supermarkets, pharmacies, convenience, pet and hardware stores mostly under the County Market, County Market Express, Harvest Market, Cenex One-Stop, Haymakers, ACE Hardware, Pet Supplies Plus, and Save-A-Lot banners in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri.
In 2002, the company changed its corporate name to Grocery Outlet, Inc. [13] Grocery Outlet purchased 16 Yes!Less grocery stores in Texas and another in Shreveport, Louisiana, from Dallas, Texas-based Fleming Cos. in January 2003. [17] All 17 stores were closed by May 2004. [18] The company promoted MacGregor Read and Eric Lindberg to co-CEO in ...
Neiman Marcus original store 1907–1913 at Elm and Murphy. Herbert Marcus Sr., a former buyer with Dallas' Sanger Brothers department store, had left his previous job to found a new business with his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman and her husband, Abraham Lincoln Neiman, then employees of Sanger Brothers competitor A. Harris and Co.
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Pathmark was formed out of the Wakefern Food Corporation, parent company of ShopRite, Wakefern was both a wholesale operation and a retail operation; among its members was a subgroup, Supermarkets Operating Co., in Union, New Jersey, [4] formed in 1956 by Alex Aidekman, Herb Brody, and Milt Perlmutter. [5]
On May 2, 2005, Neiman Marcus Group was the subject of a leveraged buyout (LBO), selling itself to two private equity firms, Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus. [3]In August 2013, Women's Wear Daily reported Neiman Marcus Group was preparing for an initial public offering of its stock. [4]
On June 26, 1974, a Marsh location in Troy, Ohio, became the first grocery store in the world to use a bar code scanner. The first item scanned was a ten piece pack of gum. [8] One of the first scanners used to scan bar codes at the supermarket can now be found in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. [9]
Wegmans is a privately owned company, founded in 1916 by brothers John and Walter Wegman as the Rochester Fruit and Vegetable Company. [15] Originally starting as a produce cart, the first store opened in 1917 at 72 West Main St. in Rochester, New York. [16]