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Haggen

December 22, 2017 8:08 pm Published by

Haggen Food & Pharmacy is a grocery retailer in Washington state. Haggen is headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, and got its start there in 1933 when Ben Haggen, Dorothy Haggen, and Doug Clark opened the first store on Bay Street in Bellingham. For many years, Haggen was the largest independent grocery retailer in the Pacific Northwest,... View More

Albertsons

December 22, 2017 8:08 pm Published by

Albertsons Companies LLC is an American grocery company founded and based in Boise, Idaho. It is privately owned and operated by investors, including Cerberus Capital Management. With 2,200 stores and more than 250,000 employees, the company is the second largest supermarket chain in North America after Kroger, which has 2,778 stores. Prior to its January... View More

Sprouts Farmers Market

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc., a healthy grocery store, provides fresh, natural, and organic food in the United States. The company’s stores offer fresh produce, bulk foods, vitamins and supplements, packaged groceries, meat and seafood, deli products, baked goods, dairy and dairy alternatives, frozen foods, body care and natural household items, and beer and wine. As... View More

Trader Joes

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Trader Joe’s is an American chain of grocery stores based in Monrovia, California, owned by a German private equity family trust. By 2015, it was a competitor in “fresh format” grocery stores in the United States. As of October 12, 2017, Trader Joe’s had 474 stores nationwide in 43 states and in Washington, D.C. Trader... View More

Vons

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Vons is a Southern California and Southern Nevada supermarket chain owned by Albertsons. It is headquartered in Fullerton, California, and operates stores under the Vons and Pavilions banners. Before the acquisition by Albertsons, it was headquartered in Arcadia, California.

Wegmans

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a privately held American regional supermarket chain headquartered in Gates, New York, near Rochester. Wegmans has 95 stores in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions, in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Founded in 1916 in Rochester, Wegmans has appeared on Fortune’s annual “100 Best Companies to... View More

Whole Foods

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Whole Foods Market Inc. is an American supermarket chain exclusively featuring foods without artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, sweeteners, and hydrogenated fats. On August 23, 2017, it was reported that the Federal Trade Commission approved the merger between Amazon.com and Whole Foods Market. The following day it was announced that the deal would be closed on... View More

Kroger

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

The Kroger Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer in the United States. It also manufactures and processes food for sale in its supermarkets. The company operates retail food and drug stores, multi-department stores, jewelry stores, and convenience stores. Its combination food and drug stores offer natural food and organic sections, pharmacies, general... View More

Publix Super Markets

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Publix Super Markets, Inc., commonly known as Publix, is an employee-owned, American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and past employees. It is considered the largest employee-owned company in the world. Publix operates throughout the Southeastern United States,... View More

Safeway

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Safeway, Inc. is an American supermarket chain founded in 1915. It is a subsidiary of Albertsons, having been acquired by private equity investors led by Cerberus Capital Management in January 2015. Safeway’s primary base of operations is in the western and central United States with some stores located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern... View More

99 Cents Only

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

99 Cents Only Stores is an American price-point retailer chain based in Commerce, California. Previously, the store offered all products at 99¢ or less. Most products are now priced at “99.99¢ or less, but certain products are sold at higher price points”. Founded by David Gold on February 28, 1969, most of the stores are... View More

ALDI

November 16, 2017 1:07 am Published by

Aldi (stylized as ALDI) is the common brand of two leading global discount supermarket chains with over 10,000 stores in 18 countries, and an estimated combined turnover of more than €50 billion.Based in Germany, the chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946 when they took over their mother’s store in Essen,... View More