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4S Ranch, California

The town center is anchored by a 52,000 square foot Ralph's grocery store presumably built in cooperation with the Ralphs family related to the development of 4S Ranch even though the chain is part of Kroger.

Airdrie, Alberta

The city's north end includes Real Canadian Superstore and Canadian Tire locations and other major grocery chains such as Sobeys, Canada Safeway and Calgary Co-op are also located in the city.

Albertsons Boise Open

The grocery chain was founded by Joe Albertson in 1939 in Boise, and the company was headquartered in the city until 2006, when it was acquired by Supervalu of Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Angel Mendez

His father owned and attended a grocery store in the South Bronx while his mother cared for their eight children at home.

Aurora Organic Dairy

The company supplies and packages private-label, store-brand, organic dairy products for many of the country's largest grocery chains, including Wal-Mart, Safeway, Target and Costco.

Baird, Texas

It has one Dairy Queen, five churches, four gas stations, and no grocery store

Brandt, Ohio

At one time the village had two grocery stores and an active fraternal presence with the International Order of Oddfellows being housed in a two-story frame structure.

BTTR Ventures

They partnered with Peet's Coffee & Tea(PEET) and other local coffee shops as sources of coffee grounds and Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Andronico's, Mollie Stone's and other regional grocery stores as distributors of the company's mushrooms and mushroom kits for more than their 30 Bay Area stores, and CitySlickers Farms, an Oakland Urban Farming Project, and Oakland Unified School District as receivers of the company's compost donation.

Canica

Canica is a private holding company, based in Oslo, Norway, created to own the RIMI grocery store chain, owned by Stein Erik Hagen (10%) and his three children Caroline Marie Hagen, Carl Erik Hagen and Nina Camilla Hagen (30% each).

Chinatown, Chicago

Chicago's Chinatown is home to a number of banks, Chinese restaurants, gift shops, grocery stores, Chinese medicine stores, as well as a number of services that cater to people interested in Chinese culture, including those speaking Chinese, especially the Cantonese dialect.

Craig Cobb

In 2003 he relocated to Frost, West Virginia, where he opened a grocery store and subsequently registered a business called "Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C."

Dahl's Foods

Another store opened in 1952 featuring a scratch bakery, pharmacy, and a lunch counter, uncommon for a grocery store at that time.

Denham, Western Australia

There is a Crisis centre, two Churches, a unit of the Red Cross, Returned Services League (R.S.L.), plus the normal amenities / facilities / social organisations to be found in any small Australian rural town; for example, two grocery shops, hardware, laundromat, hairdressing salon, two hotels, three caravan parks, various types of holiday accommodation, butcher, tourist and souvenir shops.

Diacetyl

In 2012, Wayne Watson, a regular microwavable popcorn consumer for years, was awarded $7.27 million in damages from a federal jury in Denver, which decided his lung disease was caused by the chemicals in microwave popcorn and that the popcorn's manufacturer, Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, and the grocery store that sold it should have warned him of its dangers.

Dudley Stamp

Besides DIY work at home in Bude, Cornwall, Stamp acted as a director of the family grocery firm and was president of the Institute of Grocers (1960–63).

Earl of Essex

William Jennings Capell, a retired grocery clerk from Yuba City, California and distant cousin of the 11th Earl, is the heir presumptive to the Earldom of Essex.

Emil John Raddatz

He worked as a grocery bagger until 1879, when he moved to Silver Cliff, Colorado and then San Juan.

Food Town

Food Lion, an American grocery store chain headquartered in Salisbury, NC, and known as Food Town from 1957 to 1983

Lewis Food Town, a grocery store chain headquartered in Houston, Texas

Gaston Blackburn

He first worked in the family grocery business and then was a regional supervisor for Provigo from 1970 to 1973.

George Ewart Evans

Evans was born in Abercynon, a coal-mining village north of Cardiff, one of a family of eleven, to Welsh-speaking parents who ran a grocery business, As a boy he assisted in the delivery rounds travelling by pony and trap through the neighbouring farms and villages until the business closed following the 1924-5 coal strike.

Graigwen

Graigwen is served by one pub - the Tŷ Mawr Hotel in Pantygraigwen, (which was used in the BBC Wales soap, Belonging), one club - the Pontypridd District Club, a garage and two news agents/grocery stores one of which previously served as Graigwen Post Office.

Grocery Outlet

In 2011 Grocery Outlet aquired a Lancaster County based chain of stores named Amelia's Grocery Outlet.

Howard Edward Butt Sr.

(April 9, 1895-March 12, 1991) was an American businessman and philanthropist who founded the H-E-B grocery store chain.

Charles Clarence Butt, the president and chairman of H. E. Butt Grocery Company.

Jedem das Seine

Several modern advertising campaigns in the German language, including ads for Nokia, REWE grocery stores, Burger King, and Merkur Bank have been marred by controversy after using the phrase Jedem das Seine or Jedem den Seinen.

Justus Ramsey Stone House

He was first employed as a surveyor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, then came to Saint Paul in 1849 where he engaged in the grocery business and in real estate.

Kooperativa Förbundet

The grocery retail group, Coop, stands for around 85 per cent of the sale with store brands like Coop Konsum, Coop Nära, Coop Extra and Coop Forum.

Lawrence Plaza

It is also the name of a small shopping plaza in Santa Clara, California serving the Korean community with a grocery store, bakery, coffee shop, and a food court; this article describes the shopping centre in Toronto.

LeRoy Armstrong

In his youth he worked in the forestry, rail and grocery businesses before moving to Apohaqui, New Brunswick in 1965 and founding a trucking operation, which he merged into a larger operation in 1985 called Kingsco.

Lester Melrose

He relocated to Chicago around 1914, and tried out unsuccessfully as a catcher for the Chicago White Sox baseball team before starting work as a grocery salesman.

Lowe's Market

In 1964, Bud Lowe opened the first Lowe's Market grocery store in Olton, Texas, a small grocery market.

Matzo Shortage of 2008

A number of chain grocery stores were reported to have run dry including Safeway, Whole Foods, Lunardi's, Lucky and Mollie Stone.

Meadowlands, Minnesota

During its heyday, Meadowlands was home to a number of businesses including a Ford dealership (which also carried New Holland farm machinery), a bank, a farmer's cooperative store, a grocery store, a commercial laundry, a cheese factory, various restaurants, a movie theater and the Toivola–Meadowlands School, a K–12 institution.

Mochi

In the United States the grocery chains Trader Joe's, H Mart, Lotte, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry.

Nattawut Saikua

On 22 June 2013, a music video surfaced on YouTube featuring Nattawut singing about and promoting grocery stores.

Newcastle, Ontario

Newcastle has a beautiful community hall, donated by the Massey family, one public high school (Clarke), one public elementary school (Newcastle Public School), one Catholic elementary school (St. Francis of Assisi), a post office, churches, a few plazas, several small parks, six restaurants, Tim Hortons, a new recreation complex, an ice arena, fire hall, two grocery stores, professional offices, hardware stores, a marina on Lake Ontario, and a golf course (Newcastle Golf Course).

Pattanathil Sundaran

The story follows Kizhakkethil Sundaresan (Dileep), a grocery store owner who never attended college, who is married to Radhamani (Navya Nair), a M.Sc. graduate.

Penn Fruit

By the early 1930s the company had grown to six stores, and although it did not want to add a full line of groceries to its fare, competition from established chains like Acme and A&P forced it into the grocery business.

Preacher Roe

Roe lived in West Plains, Missouri, where for many years he operated a small grocery store and has a street named after him (Preacher Roe Boulevard), which included U.S. 160 north of the US 63 bypass until the city rerouted U.S. 160 and Route 17 circa 2000.

Provident Bank of Maryland

The deposit base, totalling more than $40 million, was from branches located in Giant grocery stores in the Baltimore area.

Salah Khalaf

His father, who came from Gaza, ran a grocery in Carmel, where half of his clients were Jewish and he spoke Hebrew, which his son also picked up from companions among Sephardic Jews.

Shop 'n Save

Shop ’n Save was founded in 1979 as a grocery store in Belleville, Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.

Super Saver Foods

Super Saver was a brand launched by the Acme grocery chain in 1970 on the East Coast as discount format grocery stores.

Tommy Thevenow

He had operated a grocery store in his hometown of Madison, Indiana following his retirement from baseball.

Two Degrees Food

The company distributes bars to health food, specialty, grocery, college and food service channels across the United States, including more than 1000 locations including Whole Foods, stores, Barnes & Noble College bookstores, coffee shops, and corporations.

University Neighborhood, Syracuse, New York

This plaza has a grocery store, Eckerd drug store, liquor store, barber shop, as well as a UPS Store behind it.

Vivanda

Vivanda offers grocery products, health and beauty aids and an Interbank agency.

Who Threw That Ham at Me

A music video was filmed in Baltimore on November 7, 2009 at the American Visionary Art Museum and Eddie's grocery store.

Wyndham Vale

Wyndham Vale contains many businesses in the area, including restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, a 7-Eleven, a BP service station and commercial car washes.


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