Supermarkets in the United States
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This is a list of supermarket companies in the United States of America and the names of supermarkets which are owned or franchised by these companies. For supermarkets worldwide see List of supermarkets.
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[edit] National chains
- Delhaize Group
- Bloom
- County Market
- Food Lion
- Hannaford
- Harveys
- Kash n' Karry
- Sweetbay Supermarket
- Henhouse
- Kroger
- Baker's
- Dillon's
- Food 4 Less
- FoodsCo
- Fred Meyer
- Fry's Food
- Jay C
- King Soopers
- QFC
- Ralphs
- Roche Brothers
- Smiths
[edit] Regional and local chains
- Acme Fresh Market operating in the Akron, Ohio area
- Andronico's (California)
- Associated Supermarkets (New York City area)
- Balducci's (New York City, Washington, D.C., and their suburbs)
- Bashas' (Arizona)
- Big Y Foods (New England)
- BI-LO (southeastern United States)
- Buehler's Buy-Low (Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky)
- Brookshire's (Texas & Louisiana) Also runs Super1 Foods in East Texas and Shreveport, LA.
- Brookshire Brothers (Texas) A brother of the Brookshires mentioned above.
- Brown & Cole (Washington)
- Cost Cutter
- Food Depot
- Food Pavilion
- Red Apple
- Save-On-Foods
- Bruno's Supermarkets (Southeast)
- Busch's (Southeast and Central Michigan)
- C-Town (northeastern United States)
- Cannata's Family Market (southern Louisiana)
- Coborn's (Minnesota)
- Copps Food Center
- County Market
- Crest Foods (Oklahoma City area)
- D'Agostino's (New York)
- D&W Food Centers (Michigan)
- David's (rural north Texas)
- DeMoulas' Market Basket (New England: Massachusetts/New Hampshire)
- Dierbergs (Greater St. Louis, Missouri)
- Fareway (Iowa)
- FasChec (Charleston, West Virginia area)
- Felpausch (Michigan)
- Fiesta Mart (Houston, Dallas, Austin & Waco, Texas) Hispanic and International foods.
- Food Basket
- Food City (Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee)
- FoodFair (southeastern Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, and western West Virginia)
- Food Giant
- FoodLand (Hawaii)
- FoodLand Supermarkets(western Pennsylvania)
- Foodtown (Northeast, mainly New Jersey) (a similarly named store, "Food Town", operates in the Houston, Texas area)
- Gerland's Food Fair (Houston)
- Giant Eagle (eastern United States)
- Glen's (northern Michigan)
- Grand Union (AKA GU Family Markets)
- Gristedes (dozens of stores, all within the borough of Manhattan, New York City)
- Grocer's Pride (Houston, Mississippi)
- Haggen Food & Pharmacy (Washington, Oregon)
- Top Food & Drug
- Hannaford (Northeastern U.S.)
- H-E-B (Texas, Mexico) Also operates H-E-B Plus and Central Market.
- Harding's Friendly Markets (southwestern Michigan)
- Harp's Market (Arkansas, Kansas, regional Southern states) competes against Wal-mart in small towns, larger stores include sporting goods.
- Heinen's Fine Foods (Greater Cleveland)
- Homeland (Kansas, Oklahoma, and formerly Texas)
- Hugo's (North Dakota, Minnesota)
- Hy-Vee Food Stores (Hundreds of stores in 7 states)
- Ingles (South)
- Jons (Los Angeles inner-city)
- Karns Quality Foods (metropolitan Harrisburg area, Pennsylvania)
- Key Food (New York City area)
- King Kullen (Long Island, and Staten Island, New York)
- Kowalski's (Minnesota)
- Lowes Foods (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
- Lund's (Minnesota)
- Magruder's (Washington, DC region)
- Market Basket (SE Texas and SW Louisiana)
- Mars (Greater Baltimore area)
- Marsh (Indiana and Ohio, includes O'Malia's and Lo-Bill chains)
- Martin's Super Markets (Indiana)
- Martin's Super Food Stores (New York)
- Mayfair
- Meijer (Midwest)
- Minyard's (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, operates also under the names "Carnival", an ethnic-oriented line, and "Sack and Save", a discount line)
- Nash Finch Company (Upper Midwest)
- Nugget Markets (northern California)
- Omni Foods (Massachusetts and New Hampshire)
- Pathmark (northeastern United States)
- Payless Supermarkets (Guam and Northern Mariana Islands)
- Penn Traffic (Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire)
- P&C Foods
- Bi-Lo Foods
- Riverside Markets
- Quality Markets
- Publix (southeastern United States)
- Quality Markets (New York and Pennsylvania)
- Raley's (western U.S., own Nob Hill and Bel Air)
- Red Food (southeastern United States; now merged into BI-LO)
- Remke Markets (Cincinnati, Ohio metro area)
- Robèrt's Fresh Market (New Orleans, Louisiana metro area)
- Roundy's
- Copps Food Center (Wisconsin)
- Pick 'n Save (Wisconsin, Illinois)
- Rainbow Foods (Minnesota)
- Rosauers Supermarkets (Eastern WA, Northern OR, & Western ID)
- Huckleberry's Natural Market (Spokane, WA)
- Super 1 Foods
- Rouse's Supermarket (Louisiana)
- Rice Supermarkets Also Rice Epicurean Markets (Houston)
- Preston-Safeway|Safeway (aka Preston-Safeway, unrelated to Safeway Inc.; Central Indiana)
- Save Mart Supermarkets (California's Central Valley and Bay Area)
- FoodMaxx
- S-Mart Foods
- Schnucks (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana)
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- Logi (Rockford, Illinois)
- Scolari's Food and Drug (California, Nevada)
- Sedano's (Miami, Florida)
- Sendik's Food Market (Wisconsin)
- Sentry Foods (Wisconsin)
- ShopRite (northeastern United States)
- Simon Delivers (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota/Wisconsin online grocery)
- Spartan Stores (Michigan)
- Stater Brothers (California)
- Stewart's Shops (New York and Vermont)
- Stew Leonard's (New York City suburbs)
- Strack and Van Til (northwestern Indiana)
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- Ultra Foods - discount division (Indiana and Chicago suburbs)
- Straub's (St. Louis, Missouri)
- Sullivan's Foods (northern & central Illinois)
- Sunshine Foods (Upper Midwest)
- Turco's (New York)
- Ukrop's (central Virginia)
- United (western Texas)
- Victory Super Markets (soon to be defunct, Massachusetts & New Hampshire)
- Wade's (Virginia) [1]
- Waldbaum's (Northeast, mostly New York State)
- Wegmans (Northeast)
- Weis Markets (Mid-Atlantic: (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia))
- Westborn Market (southeasten Michigan)
- Wilson Farms (upstate New York)
- WinCo Foods
- Winn-Dixie (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
- Woodman's Food Market (Wisconsin, northern Illinois)
- Yoke's Fresh Market (Spokane, Washington)
[edit] Retailers' cooperatives
- Affiliated Food Stores
- Affiliated Foods Midwest
- Associated Food Stores
- Associated Grocers
- Associated Grocers of Florida
- Associated Grocers of the South
- Associated Wholesale Grocers
- Price Chopper / Price Mart
- Country Mart
- Cash Saver
- Apple Market
- SunFresh
- ThriftWay
- Associated Wholesalers
- Central Grocers Cooperative
- IGA
- ShopRite/Wakefern Food Corporation
- Shurfine Markets
- Unified Western Grocers
- Western Family Foods (supermarket wholesaler)
- Royal Blue (supermarket) (now defunct; founded in the 1930s)
[edit] Deep Discount and Limited Assortment chains
- Aldi (the US operations of a German group)
- PriceRite (Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania--Owned by Wakefern)
- Food 4 Less
- Grocery Outlet (West)
- Marc's
- WinCo Foods (West)
- Price Chopper (northeastern United States, mainly New York state)
- ShopRite/Wakefern Food Corporation
- Smart & Final (Western U.S.)
- Cash & Carry
- Supervalu (Midwest, mixed franchisee and directly-owned stores, uses banners: Cub Foods, Save-A-Lot and more)
[edit] Defunct chains
- ABCO (Arizona) Also known as Alpha Beta
- Almacs (RI)
- AppleTree Markets (Houston, Dallas & Austin, Texas) The former Safeway, Inc. stores in Texas. The former Safeway employees bought out the assets of Safeway and formed AppleTree. There are two AppleTree store still left in Bryan, Tex., as of January 21, 2007.
- Bells (western New York; once Loblaw's. Some former stores are now Quality Markets)
- Big Bear (Ohio, New York, and West Virginia)
- Bohack (New York City)
- Clemens Family Markets (Pennsylvania) Sold stores in 2006 to Ahold which were folded into the Giant-Carlisle chain. Other stores were sold to Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company to be operated as Super Fresh.
- Eagle Food Centers (headquartered in Milan, Illinois. Two Eagle Country Market stores were purchased by Downtown Eagle Corporation, which continue to run the stores.)
- Farm Fresh Supermarket Well-run chain of 18 supermarkets in Greater Baltimore, MD area. Sold in 1995 by Jack Millman of Pikesville, MD.
- Food Fair closed in the 90's. Pantry Pride was part of Food Fair.
- Great Scott's (Michigan)
- Henke - Pillot Foods (Houston, Texas) Became Kroger in 1960's.
- Hills Supermarkets (Headquarters was in Brentwood, NY) Closed in late 1970's - Early 1980's
- Jitney-Jungle Well-loved deep-south chain which went bankrupt after swallowing the Delchamps chain--many locations were sold to Winn-Dixie
- Kmart Foods (national)
- Kohl's Supermarket (Wisconsin)
- Larry's Markets (Settle, WA region) bankrupted in 2006, one location kept by Associated Grocers.
- Lucky Stores (California) bought by Albertsons and Lucky name disappeared in 1999
- MacMarr Stores (National)
- Mini Max (Houston & Austin, Texas)
- National Supermarkets (St. Louis, Missouri) Sold out to Schnucks Markets by Loblaws of Canada in 1995.
- Olsen's Market ([[Lynnwood, Washington]) chain bought out by Quality Food Centers (QFC).
- Omni Superstore - (Chicago, Illinois - former discount division of Dominick's, sold to Safeway and store converted to Dominick's or closed)
- Pantry Pride last store was built in 1991 before the chain closed.
- Penn-Fruit (Philadelphia metro-area)
- Schwegmanns Bros Super Food Stores (New Orleans metro-area)
- Star Market (New England)
- The Stock Market (King County, Wa) stores bought by Quality Food Centers (QFC).
- 'Super Duper' (western New York, Ohio, nearly defunct; many former stores are now Jubilee)
- Weingarten's (Houston, Texas)
- Whitefront (California)
[edit] Ethnic chains
[edit] Asian
See also: Asian supermarket
- 99 Ranch Market - The largest Asian American supermarket chain on the West Coast.
- Ai Hoa Supermarket - Formerly a large Chinese-Vietnamese American chain in southern California, now operates one store in Chinatown, Los Angeles
- Diho Supermarket - Chinese American
- Hong Kong Supermarket - Chinese American supermarket chain.
- Island Pacific Supermarket - Filipino American chain in California and Nevada
- Kam Man Food - Small Asian American supermarket chain in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.
- Marukai - Japanese American supermarket.
- Mitsuwa - Japanese American supermarket chain of Southern California.
- Seafood City - Filipino American supermarket chain.
- Shun Fat Supermarket - Chinese American supermarket.
- Super H-mart - upscale Korean supermarket chain, include a restaurant and indoor mini-mall. Based in New Jersey, several located in the East half of the U.S.[1] [2]
- Uwajimaya - Asian American supermarket chain in the Pacific Northwest.
- Patel Brothers - [Asian Indian American] supermarket chain
[edit] Hispanic/Latino
- Avanza - Hispanic supermarket chain in Denver, owned by Nash Finch
- Fiesta Supermarket - Mexican-American, primarily in Texas
- Publix Sabor - Hispanic, operated by Publix.
- Sedano's - Hispanic chain in South Florida.
- Superior Super Warehouse - Hispanic Warehouse supermarket 28 stores in Southern California
- Supermercados Gigante - Mexico-based supermarket chain with locations in the US.
- Carnival - Hispanic chain in the Dallas area operated by Minyard Food Stores.
[edit] Specialty/Natural foods
- Bristol Farms
- Central Market (division of H-E-B)
- EarthFare - Specialty market in the Southeast
- Fairway Market - New York City
- FreshDirect - online grocer in New York City
- The Fresh Market
- Metropolitan Market -Seattle, WA
- Mollie Stone's
- New Seasons Market -Portland, OR
- PCC Natural Markets - Seattle, Washington area
- Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-Op -Everett, WA
- Stew Leonard's - northern New York City suburbs
- Trader Joe's (owned by the German Aldi group)
- Whole Foods Market
- Wild Oats Markets (owns Capers Community Market, Henry's Farmers Market, and Sun Harvest)
[edit] Chains in Insular areas
[edit] Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Pueblo Supermarkets
- Supermercados Amigo
- Supermercados Econo
- Supermercados Selecto
- Supermercados Plaza
- Supermercados Grande
- Supermercados Bonanza
[edit] See also
- Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates (trade association)
- National Grocers Association (trade association)
- UFCW (labor union)
