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Sellers Bros. is a chain of grocery stores and convenience stores based in Houston, Texas, United States. The company was formed in 1921, [1] and its officers are George R. Sellers; Joseph L. Sellers; and John L. Sellers. [2] Sellers Bros. operates 12 supermarkets/grocery stores and five convenience stores. [3]
The Sagemont area houses the Sagemont Church. It built a 170-foot (52 m) Christian cross at Beltway 8 at Interstate 45, the largest roadside cross in Houston. [15] It was first established in 1966 as a mission of the Pasadena church First Baptist Church. Its current church building, 118,000 square feet (11,000 m 2) large, opened in 2012. This ...
Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas with numbering plan area 281/346/713/832 highlighted. Area codes 713, 281, 832, 346 and 621 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) forming an overlay complex for Houston, Texas and its environs. 713 is one of the original four area codes established for Texas in 1947.
The Houston Heights, one of the earliest planned communities in Texas, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Downtown Houston.A National Geographic article says "stroll the area's broad, tree-canopied esplanades and side streets dotted with homes dating from the early 1900s and you may think you've landed in a small town."
The chain's first location in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex opened on December 19, 2011 in Dallas. [10] Goody Goody Liquor, a family liquor store company based in Dallas, responded to Spec's entering the DFW market by entering the Houston market. [11] For eight consecutive years, the Houston Press gave Spec's the "Best Liquor Store" award. [12]
In 2001, The Co-operative Pharmacy pioneered the use of Braille on the packaging of own label medicines and, in 2012, it became the first retail pharmacy chain in the UK to become carbon neutral. [2] The Co-operative Doctor was an online diagnosis and treatment system. [3]
South Houston is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area and Harris County. The population was 16,153 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is bordered by the cities of Houston and Pasadena , and geographically located southeast of Houston.
The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," [11] with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, [12] today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s, and providing a model.