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District Grocery Stores (DGS) was a cooperative of small single-room grocery stores in Washington, DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.It operated from 1921 to 1972. [1] The goal was to leverage the volume of purchasing power of the cooperative to negotiate better prices from wholesalers and therefore improve their competitiveness.
Giant Food of Maryland, LLC is an American regional supermarket chain with 166 stores located in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. [3] [4] It is a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize, and headquartered in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, near Landover.
A new Center Market building was chartered and the company incorporated by an Act of Congress on May 20, 1870 [5] and opened for business on July 1, 1872. It was designed by the same architect (Adolph Cluss) as the demolished building of 1864. It was operated by the Washington Market Company with as first principal Officers:
Together the three brothers opened their first supermarket concept, River Terrace Supermarket, at 3439 Benning Rd., N.E., Washington, D.C. In 1952, the brothers rebranded the Benning Road store with a new concept, Jumbo Food Store. Shortly after they opened a second location in Seat Pleasant, Maryland at 401 Eastern Ave.
The retail company launched in 1923 when David Javitch opened a small meat market in Carlisle, Pennsylvania called Carlisle Meat Market. In 1936, Javitch purchased a store in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, which he named the Giant Shopping Food Center. It was a major change from the original Carlisle Meat Market in that it was a total grocery store ...
The first store outside New York opened in 1993 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the expansion continued with a store in New Jersey in 1999, [26] Virginia in 2004, Maryland in 2005, Massachusetts in 2011, [26] [27] North Carolina in 2019, [28] and Washington, D.C. and Delaware in 2022. [29]
The first store, at 7th and E Streets, NW, in Washington, D.C.'s downtown shopping district, opened on October 30, 1860. The founders were James and Gustav Lansburgh. The company was known initially for supplying the black crepe used for the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln. [1]
429 grocery stores; 67 meat markets Washington D.C. and Virginia ... Division merged into Washington DC division ... The first store opened in Colonial Heights ...