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The chain evolved from Norfolk, Virginia's D. P. Pender Grocery Stores, the first of which opened in 1900. [1] [2] [3] In its early years the company used horse drawn wagons to deliver goods to customers. [1]
The North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia stores were sold to Harris Teeter in 1988, [3] while the Georgia stores were sold in 1992, with most of the Atlanta locations going to A&P. These stores were heavily remodeled, but eventually sold to Publix in 1999.
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A 1950 ad for Harris Supermarkets. Displayed at Harris Teeter's store on Central Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina (Store #097-00401).. Harris Teeter was founded by William Thomas Harris and Willis L. Teeter, two entrepreneurs who started their separate businesses during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 2005, Ahold sold BI-LO/Bruno's to Lone Star Funds. [13] In order to concentrate on renovating older stores, building new ones, and investing in newer information technology, the new owners sold off 104 BI-LO, FoodSmart, Bruno's, Food Fair, and Food World stores in areas where the chain did not have significant market penetration.
Wakefern Food Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1946 and is based in Keasbey, New Jersey. [5] It is the largest retailers' cooperative group of supermarkets and the fourth-largest cooperative of any kind in the United States.
Select flavors of Gifford's ice cream were sold in pint containers in area specialty food stores, including Whole Foods Market and Harris Teeter. [7] As of August 2006, more than 70 restaurants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area served Gifford's ice cream. [8] Beginning in 2008, Gifford's was added as a concession at Nationals Park.
American Stores Company was an American public corporation and a holding company which ran chains of supermarkets and drugstores in the United States from 1917 through 1998. The company was incorporated in 1917 when The Acme Tea Company merged with four small Philadelphia-area grocery stores (Childs, George Dunlap, Bell Company, and A House That Quality Built) to form American Stores.