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Lin’s Fresh Market: Utah and Nevada: 1966 Cedar City, Utah: Harmons: Utah: 1932 West Valley City, Utah: Midwest. ... Price Chopper / Price Mart (Kansas City ...
Associated Food Stores was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association along with 34 Utah retailers. Concerned with the effect that large corporate stores would have on small independent retailers, he felt the only way these small businesses could survive is if they united and faced the competition as one, therefore increasing their collective buying power.
The interior of a Fresh Market store. The Fresh Market was founded by Ray and Beverly Berry on March 5, 1982, in Greensboro, North Carolina. The first store was opened in the former Bi-Rite store at the corner of Lawndale Dr. and Pisgah Church Rd. [4] The Berrys' idea was to develop a better grocery store that brought back the feeling of open European-style markets. [5]
In 1964, Bud Lowe opened the first Lowe's Market, a small grocery store, in Olton, Texas. The company began the process of gradual expansion into small and medium-sized towns in Texas and New Mexico. Some of the stores are similar to large convenience stores, between 2,000 sq.ft. to 4,000 sq.ft., however, stocked with fresh meat and produce.
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In 2011, they took over a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) (compared to the average size for Harmons of 68,000 square feet [6,300 m 2]), locally owned market known as Emigration Market, opening up their first "urban" location in the Yalecrest neighborhood in Salt Lake City, [5] while also expanding into Farmington at the Station Park development. [6]
On September 9, 2013, United Supermarkets LLC was sold to Albertsons LLC. [6] On February 4, 2014, the FTC voted 4–0 to approve the deal. The acquisition deal cost Albertsons $385 million and required Albertsons to sell its single stores in the Amarillo and Wichita Falls, Texas, markets. [7]
The Brookshire Grocery Company also opened "FRESH by Brookshire's" in Tyler, TX on March 10, 2011. The store was designed to give an upscale shopping experience and features a bakery and many organic items. The first annual FRESH 15 Road Race was held on March 1, 2014, and continues yearly. The second FRESH by Brookshire's location opened in ...