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In January 1960, Shopping Bag —with 38 stores at that time— and Vons —with 28 stores— announced their merger, making it the second largest supermarket chain on the West Coast. [3] The merger was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission , and after two lower court victories for Vons, in 1966 the Supreme Court of the United States ...
Wieboldt's had a number of memorable radio ads on radio during Chicago Cubs games in the early 1960s, featuring announcers Jack Quinlan and Lou Boudreau. Some of them can be heard at Wieboldt's Commercials Quinlan & Boudreau .
Below is a list of notable defunct retailers of the United States.. Across the United States, a large number of local stores and store chains that started between the 1920s and 1950s have become defunct since the late 1960s, when many chains were either consolidated or liquidated.
A Food Fair grocery store. .Paul Daegling, supervisor of industrial relations of Food Fair, explains the operation in 1966. A news article about Food Fair and Pantry Pride.
A grocery store chain that flourished throughout Indiana and Ohio, eventually opening dozens of stores, Marsh Supermarkets filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Founded in 1931, it lasted for 88 years ...
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
The 1960s brought us The Beatles, Bob Dylan, beehive hairstyles, the civil rights movement, ATMs, audio cassettes, the Flintstones, and some of the most iconic fashion ever. It was a time of ...
There were 50 Thriftimart retail grocery stores in May 1960: 44 in Los Angeles County (including 1 in Lancaster), plus 1 in Riverside, 1 in San Bernardino County , 2 in Bakersfield and 2 in Las Vegas. [9] This grew to 56 (and 3,000 employees) by October 1960 [2] and 77 by 1971, [10] and 79 (plus 86 cash-and-carry and 5 warehouses) in 1976. [11]