Re: "End of the line" supermarkets
Posted: 17 Jan 2024 04:20
Here's some additions:
United States:
National/semi-national:
Super Saver Foods (various incarnations under American Stores/Albertsons)
California:
Better Food Markets (SoCal division of Loblaw)
Boys Markets (was consolidated under the Ralphs name, along with Alpha Beta)
Hughes Markets
Louis Stores (Bay Area division of Loblaw)
Market Basket (Kroger's first SoCal division)
Petrini's (Bay Area upscale chain sold to Provigo Inc. in 1989, defunct by 1996)
QFI (sold to Cala Foods in 1973)
Sage's Complete Markets (Inland Empire chain)
Interior West:
Buttrey Food & Drug
Miller's (Denver chain bought out by National, converted to Del Farm in the 70s)
Foodway (New Mexico chain bought out by Winn-Dixie in 1976, sold to Smith's two years later after a labor strike)
Upper Midwest:
Applebaum's (Twin Cities chain eventually sold to National, then sold to Gateway Foods of Wisconsin and rebranded as Rainbow Foods)
Chatham (Metro Detroit chain, went bankrupt in 1987)
Carter's (Mid-Michigan chain, went bankrupt in 2006)
Eagle Food Centers (Midwest division of Lucky Stores, sold to an investment firm in 1987, parted out to Hy-Vee, Jewel, Kroger in 2003)
Kohl's Food Stores (Wisconsin division of A&P, parted out to other buyers in 2003)
Rainbow Foods (parted out by Roundy's in 2014 to Supervalu affiliates, with the last Rainbow closing in 2018)
Red Owl (sold to Supervalu in 1988)
Mid-Atlantic/Tidewater:
Clemens Markets (suburban Philadelphia chain, sold to Giant-PA in 2006)
Giant Open Air (Hampton Roads area chain sold to Farm Fresh in 1986)
Canada:
National:
Dominion
Lofood (Sobeys discount banner before Oshawa acquisition)
Piggly Wiggly
Price Chopper (Oshawa Group/Sobeys discount banner)
Oshawa Group (which was the third largest Canadian grocer- they franchised the IGA name everywhere in Canada, except British Columbia, sold to Sobeys in 1998)
West:
Woodward's Food Floors
Ontario:
Commisso's Food Markets (all but one of the stores sold to Sobeys in 2003)
Dutch Boy (Kitchener/Waterloo area chain owned by Oshawa Group)
Food City (Ontario chain owned by Oshawa Group)
Gordons (former Midwestern Ontario division of Zehrs, a Loblaw banner)
Knob Hill Farms (built the largest supermarket in the world at one point, at a monster 340000 sqft!)
Loeb (Ottawa-area chain owned by Provigo, then sold to Metro when Loblaw bought Provigo in 1998)
Miracle Food Mart (Ontario division of Steinberg, sold to A&P in 1989, converted to Ultra Food & Drug)
Mr. Grocer (a Dominion banner, was the remains of Dominion stores not sold to A&P in 1985 as the result of union-busting; chain later sold to Loblaw)
The Barn (A&P upscale banner in Ontario)
Ultra Food & Drug (successor to Miracle Mart, banner used outside of Greater Toronto Area)
Quebec:
Steinberg
Atlantic:
Village Food Stores (New Brunswick chain sold to Loblaw in 1994)
SaveEasy (Atlantic Provinces "small store" banner of Loblaw, converted to other formats by 2016)
United States:
National/semi-national:
Super Saver Foods (various incarnations under American Stores/Albertsons)
California:
Better Food Markets (SoCal division of Loblaw)
Boys Markets (was consolidated under the Ralphs name, along with Alpha Beta)
Hughes Markets
Louis Stores (Bay Area division of Loblaw)
Market Basket (Kroger's first SoCal division)
Petrini's (Bay Area upscale chain sold to Provigo Inc. in 1989, defunct by 1996)
QFI (sold to Cala Foods in 1973)
Sage's Complete Markets (Inland Empire chain)
Interior West:
Buttrey Food & Drug
Miller's (Denver chain bought out by National, converted to Del Farm in the 70s)
Foodway (New Mexico chain bought out by Winn-Dixie in 1976, sold to Smith's two years later after a labor strike)
Upper Midwest:
Applebaum's (Twin Cities chain eventually sold to National, then sold to Gateway Foods of Wisconsin and rebranded as Rainbow Foods)
Chatham (Metro Detroit chain, went bankrupt in 1987)
Carter's (Mid-Michigan chain, went bankrupt in 2006)
Eagle Food Centers (Midwest division of Lucky Stores, sold to an investment firm in 1987, parted out to Hy-Vee, Jewel, Kroger in 2003)
Kohl's Food Stores (Wisconsin division of A&P, parted out to other buyers in 2003)
Rainbow Foods (parted out by Roundy's in 2014 to Supervalu affiliates, with the last Rainbow closing in 2018)
Red Owl (sold to Supervalu in 1988)
Mid-Atlantic/Tidewater:
Clemens Markets (suburban Philadelphia chain, sold to Giant-PA in 2006)
Giant Open Air (Hampton Roads area chain sold to Farm Fresh in 1986)
Canada:
National:
Dominion
Lofood (Sobeys discount banner before Oshawa acquisition)
Piggly Wiggly
Price Chopper (Oshawa Group/Sobeys discount banner)
Oshawa Group (which was the third largest Canadian grocer- they franchised the IGA name everywhere in Canada, except British Columbia, sold to Sobeys in 1998)
West:
Woodward's Food Floors
Ontario:
Commisso's Food Markets (all but one of the stores sold to Sobeys in 2003)
Dutch Boy (Kitchener/Waterloo area chain owned by Oshawa Group)
Food City (Ontario chain owned by Oshawa Group)
Gordons (former Midwestern Ontario division of Zehrs, a Loblaw banner)
Knob Hill Farms (built the largest supermarket in the world at one point, at a monster 340000 sqft!)
Loeb (Ottawa-area chain owned by Provigo, then sold to Metro when Loblaw bought Provigo in 1998)
Miracle Food Mart (Ontario division of Steinberg, sold to A&P in 1989, converted to Ultra Food & Drug)
Mr. Grocer (a Dominion banner, was the remains of Dominion stores not sold to A&P in 1985 as the result of union-busting; chain later sold to Loblaw)
The Barn (A&P upscale banner in Ontario)
Ultra Food & Drug (successor to Miracle Mart, banner used outside of Greater Toronto Area)
Quebec:
Steinberg
Atlantic:
Village Food Stores (New Brunswick chain sold to Loblaw in 1994)
SaveEasy (Atlantic Provinces "small store" banner of Loblaw, converted to other formats by 2016)