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Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917 as Central Wholesale Grocers, [1] was a retailers' cooperative based in Joliet, Illinois, near Chicago.It distributed both brand name and private label goods branded as Centrella and Silver Cup Value Buy to about 400 member-owner grocery stores in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
Kroger – Besides the parent company, stores operate under these brands: Baker's (Nebraska) City Market (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming) Dillons (Kansas) Food 4 Less (California, Illinois, Indiana) Fred Meyer (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska) Fry's (Arizona) Gerbes (Missouri)
Red & White logo Red & White ad from 1955.. Red & White Corporation is a chain of independently owned and operated food stores operating in the United States and Canada.While it has been supplanted by supermarket chains in many of its locations, its signature red dot logo with the words Red & White can still be found on small independent grocers in many states & provinces.
The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
The company's expansion continued throughout the mid-20th century. In 1932, Jewel acquired the Chicago unit of the Canadian firm Loblaw Groceterias, Inc., then a chain of 77 self-service stores, [11] as well as four Chicago grocery stores operated by the Middle West Stores Company, and began operating them under the name Jewel Food Stores. [12]
Memco also had stores in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in Niles and Arlington Heights in August 1972 [10] and in Lombard in August 1973. [11] These three stores were not very successful and were converted into Eagle Family Centers in October 1977. [ 12 ]
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Kroger operates Food 4 Less stores in the Chicago metropolitan area (Illinois and Indiana) and in Southern California. Kroger operates their stores as Foods Co. in northern and central California, including Bakersfield and the Central Coast , because they do not have the rights to the Food 4 Less name in those areas.