[retailfanmitchell019]

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)

[pseudo3d]

You're also missing Eisner Foods, who was at the time of their demise a division of Jewel; Skaggs Alpha Beta and Alpha Beta. S-A-B in Texas and Florida became Jewel for a time in the 90s before being sold off to Albertsons.

Eisner converted to Jewel-Osco, Skaggs Alpha Beta/Alpha Beta were converted to either Jewel-Osco (sold in Texas but continued in NM before being rebranded as Lucky), Lucky (a few following the court decision), or Ralphs.

Here's some additions:

Disqualified: Super Saver (at least the 2000s version--renamed to Lucky), Boys Market (renamed as Ralphs), Hughes Market (same), Buttrey Food & Drug (renamed to Albertsons), Red Owl (one franchised store in operation, all others renamed as Cub), Giant Open Air
Possible additions: Louis Stores, Market Basket-CA (original incarnation), Petrini's, QFI (part of Cala/Bell), Sage's Complete Markets, Miller's/Del Farm, Foodway, Rainbow Foods (includes Applebaum's), Carter's Foods, Kohl's Food Stores
Ambiguous: Eagle Food Centers (did the post-2003 "Eagle Country Markets" continue operating the store, or did it close first?), Clemens Markets (did Giant-PA close them during conversion?)

Can't speak much for the Canadian stores, though glancing over some of them were renamed ("Original" Dominion) but some of them weren't (Steinberg's).

[Steve Landry]

https://www.groceteria.com/wp-content/u ... inder1.pdf

Treasure trove of information!

Also, how about Westward Ho Markets in Los Angeles and beyond in California?

So does Hills Supermarkets (before and after Food Fair) in the northeast not count?

And Fox Markets (before and after Food Fair) in California and Nevada not count?

Side note: Food Fair operated in California under many names and arrangements.

Food Fair, Big Apple Discount, Crown Discount, Disco Foods, Pantry Pride, Super Fair Discount Supermarkets, White Front Stores, Fox Markets, J.M Fields Department Stores.........................ummmmm WOW?

[pseudo3d]

I created an updated list of stores (Version 3).

TEXAS (EXCEPT WEST TEXAS) / LOUISIANA / SOUTHEAST
AppleTree Markets (last two stores went independent, closed)
BI-LO (includes RedFood)*
Big Star Markets*
Bruno's (includes successor Belle Foods)
Earth Fare (original run)
Florida Choice*
Gooding's
Lewis & Coker
Rice Epicurean Market (includes Rice Food Stores)
Schwegmann (includes That Stanley!, Canal Villere, Real Superstore)
Seessel's*
Sweetbay Supermarket (includes Kash n' Karry)
The Family Mart*
Weingarten*
Welcome*
Xtra Super Food Center

MIDWEST / MICHIGAN
Big Bear Stores*
Carter's
Dahl's
Dominick's (includes Omni Superstore)
Farmer Jack*
Hamady Bros. (includes Chatham)
Hiller's Market (Kroger closed them during conversion)
Kohl's Food Emporium*
Marsh Supermarket
Rainbow Foods (includes Applebaum's)
Thriftway*

NORTHEAST / MID-ATLANTIC
Best Market
Bottom Dollar Food*
Genuardi's*
Grand Union (original run)
Laneco*
Mars

SOUTHWEST / WEST TEXAS
ABCO Foods Desert Market*
Foodway*
Furr's*
Megafoods

CALIFORNIA / WEST COAST / ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Alexander's
Better Food Markets *
Big Bear Markets (of California)
Cala Foods (includes Bell Markets, QFI)
Fox Markets*
Larry's Market
Louis Stores*
Market Basket (of California)*
Miller's (includes Del Farm)*
Petrini's
Sage's Complete Markets

NATIONAL/SEMI-NATIONAL
A&P (includes Super Fresh, Pathmark, and Waldbaum's, though some SoCal stores disconnected earlier and converted to Fazio's Shopping Bag)
Auchan (The Houston ones closed. The Illinois one converted to Omni, but again, dead-end at Dominick's)
FedMart
Fresh & Easy
Gemco*
Leedmark
Pantry Pride (includes Penn Fruit, Food Fair, Wooley's, Hyde Park, Hills)

CANADA
Steinberg

Additions: Welcome, Xtra Super Food Center, Kohl's Food Emporium, Rainbow Foods, Auchan, Leedmark, Sage's, Petrini's, Market Basket-CA, Louis Stores/Better Food Markets, Alexander's, Canada section, Bottom Dollar Food, Gemco, Miller's/Del Farm, and Foodway.

Other Notes: Renamed "CALIFORNIA / WEST COAST" to "CALIFORNIA / WEST COAST / ROCKY MOUNTAINS"

A * indicates that they were a division of a larger company at the time of their demise and was sold off instead. These include Grand Union (Weingarten, Big Star), SEG (BI-LO), Kroger (Florida Choice, Market Basket-CA), A&P (The Family Mart, Farmer Jack, Kohl's Food Emporium), Penn Traffic (Big Bear), Winn-Dixie (Thriftway, Foodway), Safeway (Genuardi's), Albertsons (Seessel's), SuperValu (Laneco), Fleming (ABCO Foods, Furr's), Loblaws (Louis Stores, Better Food Markets, Miller's), Fox Markets (Food Fair). Welcome is a special case since it was originally owned by Kroger and sold to Delchamps, though Delchamps closed it in 1995 with no replacement or rename.

And Fox Markets (before and after Food Fair) in California and Nevada not count?

It is a non-exhaustive list.

[Super S]

One that comes to mind is Kienow's in Portland, Oregon.

[pseudo3d]

https://www.newspapers.com/article/detr ... /25961537/
This article seems to indicate Chatham was converted by Great Scott, which means that those Chatham stores could still have converted to Kroger safely. Did Great Scott close down the Chatham stores when buying them?

[TheStranger]

With regards to Cala (Bell/QFI) - would the shortlived Delano's IGA that took over in 2007 count as a successor chain? (That chain then imploded in 2010 and I know at least two locations in SF have since become Grocery Outlet, specifically Geary and South Van Ness)

[pseudo3d]

With regards to Cala (Bell/QFI) - would the shortlived Delano's IGA that took over in 2007 count as a successor chain? (That chain then imploded in 2010 and I know at least two locations in SF have since become Grocery Outlet, specifically Geary and South Van Ness)

Looks like yes, but they closed in 2010 either way.

[pseudo3d]

I would like to issue a correction...Megafoods was successfully absorbed into Bashas'. Now, of course, Delchamps/Jitney Jungle/Winn-Dixie/et. al. is still bound for the list unless something changes, but...

[wnetmacman]

I would like to issue a correction...Megafoods was successfully absorbed into Bashas'. Now, of course, Delchamps/Jitney Jungle/Winn-Dixie/et. al. is still bound for the list unless something changes, but...

Delchamps and Jitney Jungle should appear. Winn Dixie only purchased selected stores; Delchamps had already largely retreated east of the Mississippi before they imploded., and WD did not take over their corporate headquarters.

[pseudo3d]

I would like to issue a correction...Megafoods was successfully absorbed into Bashas'. Now, of course, Delchamps/Jitney Jungle/Winn-Dixie/et. al. is still bound for the list unless something changes, but...

Delchamps and Jitney Jungle should appear. Winn Dixie only purchased selected stores; Delchamps had already largely retreated east of the Mississippi before they imploded., and WD did not take over their corporate headquarters.

After the bankruptcy, those stores as Delchamps, as Jitney Jungle, soldiered on under Winn-Dixie's ownership, even if they were just a rump state of their former chain. Yes, I'm sure that most (if not all?) of those stores have closed, but they left on a legacy, a legacy that is ending only now with Aldi winding down the chain.

[wnetmacman]

After the bankruptcy, those stores as Delchamps, as Jitney Jungle, soldiered on under Winn-Dixie's ownership, even if they were just a rump state of their former chain. Yes, I'm sure that most (if not all?) of those stores have closed, but they left on a legacy, a legacy that is ending only now with Aldi winding down the chain.

Not correct. Jitney Jungle Stores of America (the original company) filed for bankruptcy. Winn Dixie cherry picked the stores they wanted because there was a LOT of overlap. No headquarters, no DCs. They also closed a large section of Delchamps BEFORE they finally pulled the plug (mostly what was left in Louisiana and other peripheral markets). Essentially, they got some stores in MS and AL, plus a couple of old Delchamps (one of which is still WD in Metairie) in LA.

For reference - Delchamps had 118 stores when they were purchased by JJSA. JJSA had 105. Winn Dixie bought only 106.

So to summarize - Winn Dixie bought stores from JJSA. They did not purchase the company. WD has not been in a financial position to take on that much debt since the 70's. Delchamps and JJ are end of the line.

[pseudo3d]

After the bankruptcy, those stores as Delchamps, as Jitney Jungle, soldiered on under Winn-Dixie's ownership, even if they were just a rump state of their former chain. Yes, I'm sure that most (if not all?) of those stores have closed, but they left on a legacy, a legacy that is ending only now with Aldi winding down the chain.

Not correct. Jitney Jungle Stores of America (the original company) filed for bankruptcy. Winn Dixie cherry picked the stores they wanted because there was a LOT of overlap. No headquarters, no DCs. They also closed a large section of Delchamps BEFORE they finally pulled the plug (mostly what was left in Louisiana and other peripheral markets). Essentially, they got some stores in MS and AL, plus a couple of old Delchamps (one of which is still WD in Metairie) in LA.

For reference - Delchamps had 118 stores when they were purchased by JJSA. JJSA had 105. Winn Dixie bought only 106.

So to summarize - Winn Dixie bought stores from JJSA. They did not purchase the company. WD has not been in a financial position to take on that much debt since the 70's. Delchamps and JJ are end of the line.

For the purposes of this list, it's not strictly a who-buys-who. Albertsons, for instance, bought Seessel Holdings Inc. from Bruno's, but Seessel's isn't on the list because when those stores got sold to Schnucks, they were shut down and converted.

Smitty's-MO isn't on the list either because despite the fact that Albertsons bought and converted Smitty's before closing them down, they became Albertsons stores, and there are still other Albertsons stores—just not in Missouri.

I noted that there were some stores that were legally "disconnected" and I won't count them for that purpose. This includes Albertsons buying the Jewel-Osco stores in Texas/Florida, a few Bruno's stores in the south, and Fazio's California operations in 1978 (at some point Shopping Bag was rebranded to Fazio's).

On Jitney Jungle specifically, there were stores that were originally franchised (reaching eleven states) and some of those franchises switched over, like H-E-B buying the Corpus Christi stores, but those were franchised stores and changed out much earlier. When Winn-Dixie came in, that was the last of those stores. It didn't matter that they didn't buy the corporate parent, they bought operating Delchamps and Jitney Jungle stores when no one else did and converted them.

[rich]

Some other chains that need accounting in the Midwest:

The Chicago area has had a bunch of chains:
Treasure Island (mostly in Chicago proper, the last of these closed a few years ago). These were high volume, upscale but not overly expensive, foodie-oriented stores that predated Whole Foods by a few decades. Family-owned chain that had various legal problems and family drama over time. They stiffed suppliers and their employees in the end. The last of these, which was the original store, on Broadway in the Lakeview neighborhood, still seems to be vacant.

Hillman's/Stop & Shop: I believe they've been discussed here. Hillman's was a price-sensitive format; Stop & Shop was more upscale, but they shared ownership. They had a long-running location in the Loop that had both, each on a separate floor. Most of the Hillman's were in Chicago proper. Stop & Shop might have had a store or two in the North Shore suburbs. Hillman had leased departments in some Wieboldt and Sears stores. The Wieboldt locations were phased out in the early 70s.

Buy Low: They had stores that were mostly in Chicago neighborhoods--no idea what became of these.

Gromer's: This long running chain was based in Elgin and extended into Chicago's NW suburbs in places like Streamwood. This chain gradually shrank and the last stores closed in the 1990s.

Stop & Shop (Indianapolis) Bought by Colonial in the 50s, featured here in the past. The stores were sold a few years later.

I thought Indy's Preston-Safeway was dead, but in fact, they still have a few stores left. They were a local chain that bought many of National Tea's Standard stores when those left the market.

Some others for your consideration in the Northeast:

Star (Rochester, NY): They once vied with Wegman's for dominance in Rochester. Peter Schmitt (wholesaling vestige of Loblaw in Western NY that also had retail) bought them in 1982 and basically liquidated them in 1984. Surviving stores became Bell's (a chain operated by Schmitt), Apple's (another Schmitt chain). Bell's/Apple's lasted into 1993 and the stores were closed. I think this was part of the liquidation of Schmitt after it's bankruptcy.

Popular (probably based in Meriden CT): This chain had stores through the Connecticut Valley and adjacent areas up into Massachusetts. They vanished somewhere in the 70s. Some of the stores may have become part of the small indies supplied by "Sweet Life" (a sugar refiner turned wholesaler, later bought by Super Valu).

[Hughes56781]

what about The Pantry in California?