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unusual facts about Supermarkets



ABCO Foods

The stores were sold separately to many different companies, including Albertsons, Bashas', Safeway Inc., Southwest Supermarkets, and many independent grocers operating as IGA stores.

Amato's

The company also cans its spaghetti and pizza sauces for sale in Hannaford supermarkets.

AppleTree Markets

Also in Philadelphia, many A&P as well as Acme and Food Fair (doing business as Pantry Pride in its later years, and not related to the current Houston chain of the same name), and Penn Fruit (acquired by Food Fair during the same period) stores closed and reopened as IGA and related chains Thriftway, Shop 'n Bag, O&O, Pick Well, Great Valu (SuperValu), and ShopRite.

Bobby Lockwood

Other credits include EastEnders, The Bill, playing Jamie Oliver's nephew in television adverts for Sainsbury's supermarkets and voice-over work for Weapons of War game.

Canaan, Tobago

It boasts amenities such as one of the largest supermarkets in Tobago (Penny Savers), one of the newest branches of the First Citizens Bank, a popular bakery, pharmacy, car dealership, and a noticeable number of other shops.

Carbon Trust

Examples of products featuring their carbon footprint in the UK are Walkers Crisps, a range of own brand products in Tesco supermarkets, Halifax (HBOS) bank accounts, Dyson airblades, Marshalls building products, Kingsmill bread, Quaker oats, Silver Spoon sugar, Tate & Lyle sugar and La Farge cement.

Cavalry Ground

The main boulevard of Cavalry Ground (also known as Jinnah Flyover Road) is a major commercial area with designer outlets, boutiques, banks (including Royal Bank of Scotland), bakeries, electronics shops (including Samsung and Sony Centre) and supermarkets.

Četvrti Jul

In the neighbourhood of "Četvrti Jul", or in its edges, together with Šećerana and area towards central bus station, are: seat of the local community, elementary school "Dositej Obradović", 2 kindergartens, General Practitioner's office, 2 supermarkets, few

Columbus Salame

Their products are sold at supermarkets locally and nationwide, including Costco, Safeway, Cost Plus and Trader Joe's.

Commodore 16

Aurrerá supermarkets distributed them with Grupo Sigma S.A., a local distributor of Commodore USA.

Connah's Quay

Many of the town's residents are employed at the nearby Deeside Industrial Estate, located on the north side of the Dee, and is the location of a second power station, Tata Steelworks, Toyota, Wales Rally GB and the central headquarters of the Iceland chain of supermarkets.

Coto Supermarkets

Coto's most significant competition (and that of Argentine supermarkets in general) is that of the growing number of Asian Argentine grocers, which by 2010 numbered around 8,000, and whose combined earnings approached those of the Coto chain.

David Kirch

In 2006, Kirch celebrated his 70th birthday by announcing his plans to give everyone in Jersey, aged 70 or over, £100 in vouchers to spend in the island's Co-op supermarkets.

Edgar Pearce

The bombings targeted branches of Barclays Bank after he had a dispute with the bank and later Sainsbury's supermarkets, in the hope of obtaining money from each company.

Edmund Rice College

To raise funds for the 2009 trip to Zambia, pupils volunteered to visit supermarkets, such as Tesco and Sainsbury's, in order to receive donations from packing customers shopping bags.

Ergoldsbach

There a variety of supermarkets, two bakeries with outlets in Neufahrn, Essenbach, Landshut, etc. and other small businesses.

Franklins

86 stores across New South Wales were sold to South African retailer Pick 'n Pay, which also bought the Franklins name. The "No Frills", "Fresh" and "Mini Fresh" brands survived. "Big Fresh" did not and nearly all were bought by Woolworths and Coles. Pick 'n Pay bought all but one of the 21 Fresco supermarkets and rebranded them as Franklins stores at the same time.

Freeganism

Examples include fruit and vegetables that are smaller or larger than sizes required by supermarkets, edible offal, and a species of Dover sole with all the qualities of sole but small size.

Gandia

Gandia has a number of shopping facilities including shopping malls and chain supermarkets like Carrefour and Aldi.

Gericom

In 1998 a webshop was established, and later Gericom products were also sold in supermarkets such as Aldi, Hofer or Lidl.

Hong Kong Supermarket

The chain of supermarkets is owned by businessman Jeffrey Wu (胡兆明) and his wife, former Hong Kong actress Veronica Yip.

Legacoop

ANCD represents about 4000 retailers, many under the names Conad (supermarkets), Margherita, and E. Leclerc Conad (hypermarkets – a joint venture with the French chain E.Leclerc).

M. A. Yousuf Ali

He started his first Lulu Hypermarket in 1990s, a time when the UAE's retail sector witnessed a major change, with the traditional groceries and supermarkets yielding place to large neighborhood stores and hypermarkets.

EMKE Group’s flagship retail chain of LuLu Hypermarkets and Supermarkets is currently rated as one of the major players in the Middle East retail sector with more than 100 stores in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arab states.

Manzanita Sol

The drink is known to be available at Walmart, Albertsons, H-E-B, Ralphs, Kmart, Food 4 Less, Jewel-Osco, Dominick's, Target, Vons, Stater Bros., United Supermarkets in the Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas area, and other smaller chains and smaller family run stores.

Michael Luscombe

Luscombe has faced pressure from Australia's consumer watchdog, the ACCC, over its practice of using planning laws to object to the construction of supermarkets by its competitors.

Minami-Ibaraki Station

The shopping area around the stations include a few convenience stores, a Seattle's Best Coffee store, a couple of supermarkets and a post office.

Mochi ice cream

Mikawaya's mochi ice cream products are now sold in major American supermarkets, including Albertsons, Trader Joe's, Ralphs, and Safeway.

Niemann Foods

Niemann Foods (NFI) is a company headquartered in Quincy, Illinois that owns and operates over 100 supermarkets, convenience, pet and hardware stores mostly under the County Market, County Market Express, Cub Foods, ACE Hardware, Pet Supplies Plus, Pick-A-Dilly and Save-A-Lot banners in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri.

NTUC FairPrice

Every year, FairPrice offers NTUC Union Members (NTUC Cardholders) and FairPrice shareholders dividends, along with cash-back rebates for all purchases made at FairPrice supermarkets island-wide, including FairPrice Xtra, FairPrice Homemart, FairPrice Finest and FairPrice Express - excluding Cheers outlets.

Paradise Center

When it opens it is expected to have over 330 shops, an inside rollercoaster, a green roof, a 30-hall cinema complex with Cinema 4D, a covered ice rink, a huge fitness, several supermarkets and an underground parking with a carwash and a car service.Paradise Center is the first lifestyle center in Sofia, the most sizable project in Bulgaria and among the unique ones in Europe.

Penn Fruit

It then later closed all but a handful of its supermarkets, including the last of its Baltimore division (now called Big Valu), which were sold to Food A Rama, a local Baltimore chain (now part of Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, a Supervalu division) with the remaining 17 stores sold to Food Fair in 1975.

Rabo Mobiel

From 2006-2009, Rabo Mobiel also worked extensively on NFC technologies, including trials at C1000 supermarkets (together with KPN, Logica and NXP Semiconductors, as well as Stichting RFID Nederland and Banksys), proof-of-concept programmes and trials with Coca Cola, FEBO, Albert Heijn, Diergaarde Blijdorp, Achmea and Stichting Diabeter, MyOrder, Carian, and the American School of The Hague.

Sedmoi Kontinent

As of July 2010, the company had 121 supermarkets and 4 hypermarkets in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast, 10 supermarkets in Kaliningrad Oblast and one hypermarket in each of the following locations: Ryazan, Chelyabinsk, Minsk (Belarus), Perm, Belgorod and Yaroslavl.

Seventh Generation Inc.

Established in 1988, the Burlington, Vermont based company remains an independent, privately held company distributing products to natural food stores, supermarkets, mass merchants, and online retailers.

Sigma Alimentos

In Mexico, Sigma Alimentos markets its products through major supermarkets, as well as mom-and-pop outlets under brand names such as FUD, San Rafael, Chalet, Noche Buena, Chen, La Villita, among others.

South Nyack, New York

Recently, the company sold mostly to ice carvers and supermarkets and supplied the ice for magician David Blaine's stunt in 2000 when he suspended himself in a block of ice over Times Square.

Supabarn Supermarkets

In 2010 ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope announced that Supabarn had been successful in securing land sales for Supermarkets at Kingston and Casey in the ACT, as well as opening a wholesale centre at Canberra International Airport.

Superquinn

The business was founded in 1960 as 'Quinns Supermarkets' in Dundalk by Feargal Quinn, and the company headquarters were later moved to Sutton, Dublin.

Sylva, North Carolina

It has several big box stores and supermarkets, notably Walmart, Lowe's, and an Ingles supermarket.

Wagon Wheel, Oxnard, California

Designed by the Beverly Hills architect, Arthur Froehlich, known for his mid-century supermarkets and racetracks including the Hollywood Park Racetrack, and the Hanna Barbera Studio in Los Angeles 1962.

Watergardens Town Centre

Built in Mid 1997, this shopping centre contained 178 businesses, including two supermarkets (Coles and Safeway), a discount department-store (Target), and two Terry White Chemist's in both sections of the centre as well as a Hoyts Cinema.

Westhill, Aberdeenshire

Many supermarkets have opened in Westhill, including Tesco, Costco, Aldi, The Cooperative and Marks and Spencer.

Yikatong

The card can also be used at selected cinema, supermarkets and restaurants, such as cinemas of New Film Association, Walmart or Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises.


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