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In 1954, Big Bear Stores Co., Columbus, OH based supermarket chain purchased Harts Stores, [1] a department store that was operating at the time in the basements of two Big Bears. Harts experienced rapid growth, as Big Bear often opened grocery stores along with a Harts Department Store in an adjacent space as well as many free-standing ...
Super Duper was a chain of supermarkets once prevalent in north-eastern Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont and Ohio. 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.
Big Bear Stores – Columbus, Ohio based chain; stores closed or sold to Kroger by 2004. Unrelated chain in San Diego with same name sold to Fleming Companies and Albertsons in 1994; BI-LO – dissolved in 2021; Bohack; Bottom Dollar Food – acquired by Aldi 2015; Boys Markets – converted to Ralphs or Food 4 Less in 1994 [112] Bruno's
Harts Stores a division of Big Bear Stores, Columbus, Ohio; Heck's Department Store; Higbee's (Cleveland), converted to Dillard's in 1992, now the Jack Cleveland Casino [370] Hills Department Stores; Milner's, Toledo [371] J.J. Newberry. This chain had many stores in Ohio including: Coshocton, Wooster, East Palestine, Cincinnati.
On September 28, 1998, The Kroger Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, acquired the Hilander Foods chain. Kroger ran the chain under its Indianapolis-based Central Division which includes Pay Less Food Markets, Owen's Market, JayC Food Stores, and Scott's Food & Pharmacy. Alfred Castrogiovanni died in 2010, at age 87.
Defunct department stores based in Ohio (5 C, 3 P) ... Defunct companies based in Columbus, Ohio (1 C, 11 P) Defunct companies based in Dayton, Ohio (2 C, 18 P)
Big Bear Stores was founded in November 1933 by Wayne E. Brown. The first Big Bear Store opened on February 15, 1934, on West Lane Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, in what was once a dance hall, a roller skating rink and finally a tan bark ring for horse shows. This opening marked the beginning of self-service supermarketing in the Midwest.
Ontario Discount Department Store was a chain of discount department stores, which operated primarily in Ohio from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Ontario's parent company, Cook United, discontinued the use of the Ontario brand when it bought the Rink's Bargain Barn chain in 1981. The remaining Ontario stores were rebranded as Rink's or Cooks ...