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Alan Hamel

In the late 1970s, he hosted The Alan Hamel Show, a popular daytime talk show on Canadian TV, and was the television spokesman for the Alpha Beta grocery stores in California and its sister chain Acme in the Northeast.

Full Frys

Sture Bergholm (Stefan Gerhardsson) has recently become the manager of Dolkens livs, a local grocery store in Falkenberg, Sweden.

John Holt plc

The company traces its origins to 1862 when John Holt, 20 years old at the time, with £27 in his pocket, sailed from Liverpool to take up an appointment as a shop assistant in a grocery store in Fernando Po (now Equatorial Guinea).

The MarketPlace

The MarketPlace Limited is a grocery store chain in Bermuda.


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1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike

Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was the EA's first vice-president; grocery store president Frank H. Armstrong of Reid, Murdoch & Company the second vice-president; and William E. Clow, president of plumbing manufacturer J.B. Clow & Co. the secretary.

4S Ranch, California

The town center is anchored by a 52,000 square foot Ralph's grocery store presumably built in cooperation with the Ralphs family related to the development of 4S Ranch even though the chain is part of Kroger.

Alex Haley's Queen

Mr. Henderson (Leo Burmester), the former overseer, and his wife (Linda Hart) have left the Jackson plantation, and they now run a nearby grocery store, where young redneck white men hang out, and James trades.

Angel Mendez

His father owned and attended a grocery store in the South Bronx while his mother cared for their eight children at home.

Baird, Texas

It has one Dairy Queen, five churches, four gas stations, and no grocery store

Buttrey

Buttrey Food & Drug, defunct grocery store chain in Montana, United States

Canica

Canica is a private holding company, based in Oslo, Norway, created to own the RIMI grocery store chain, owned by Stein Erik Hagen (10%) and his three children Caroline Marie Hagen, Carl Erik Hagen and Nina Camilla Hagen (30% each).

Chasen's

The original building, save the Beverly Blvd. facing wall, was demolished and a Bristol Farms grocery store was built in its place.

Craig Cobb

In 2003 he relocated to Frost, West Virginia, where he opened a grocery store and subsequently registered a business called "Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C."

Dahl's Foods

Another store opened in 1952 featuring a scratch bakery, pharmacy, and a lunch counter, uncommon for a grocery store at that time.

Dayton, Maryland

Notable landmarks are the Crossroads Pub famed for their Maryland blue crabs and once owned by the Harp family (Harp's Pub), who also owned Harp's grocery store; the quaint Post Office that oozes Americana; the gas station that was once owned by a man named Lenny, where he used to pump gasoline for automobiles, clean the windshields of cars, and sell vanilla popsicles for 10 cents; and the "Rabbit" which is properly decorated for major holidays.

Diacetyl

In 2012, Wayne Watson, a regular microwavable popcorn consumer for years, was awarded $7.27 million in damages from a federal jury in Denver, which decided his lung disease was caused by the chemicals in microwave popcorn and that the popcorn's manufacturer, Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, and the grocery store that sold it should have warned him of its dangers.

Food Town

Food Lion, an American grocery store chain headquartered in Salisbury, NC, and known as Food Town from 1957 to 1983

Lewis Food Town, a grocery store chain headquartered in Houston, Texas

Germantown Hills, Illinois

A steam sawmill was built in 1860, and in the 1890s, the Union House was erected as a tavern, grocery store, and saloon.

Grinda

The island hosts a tavern, bar and grocery store, and is frequented daily during the summer season by the passenger ferries of Waxholmsbolaget.

Guide horse

There were setbacks; the first time they took a miniature horse to the grocery store, it grabbed a Snickers bar off the shelf.

Howard Edward Butt Sr.

(April 9, 1895-March 12, 1991) was an American businessman and philanthropist who founded the H-E-B grocery store chain.

Hugo's

Hugo Magnuson, a former mayor of Grand Forks, opened his first grocery store, the Pure Food Market, in Grand Forks.

Jerry's

Jerry's Foods, owner of several grocery store chains, headquartered in Edina, Minnesota

Joseph H. Denny

After graduating from college Denny operated a Northfield grocery store and worked as a salesman for Fairbanks Scales.

Kathryn Albertson

Together, they started the grocery store chain that bears their name (Albertsons).

Killing of Tim McLean

On July 29, around 6 p.m., Li got off the bus in Erickson, Manitoba, with at least three pieces of luggage, and stayed the night on a bench next to a grocery store.

Krembo

Israeli rock band Kaveret's hit song "Shir HaMakolet" ("The Grocery Store Song") mentions a character buying Krembo.

Lawrence Plaza

It is also the name of a small shopping plaza in Santa Clara, California serving the Korean community with a grocery store, bakery, coffee shop, and a food court; this article describes the shopping centre in Toronto.

Lexington Park

An Aldi grocery store is one of the most recent additions to the site.

Little Cayman

Little Cayman has one grocery store, a few restaurants (mostly located at the resorts), Edward Bodden Airfield (the airport), a post office, a fire station, and one church.

Lou Rymkus

Rymkus was born in Royalton, Illinois, the son of a Lithuanian immigrant coal miner who owned a small grocery store.

Lowe's Market

In 1964, Bud Lowe opened the first Lowe's Market grocery store in Olton, Texas, a small grocery market.

Meadowlands, Minnesota

During its heyday, Meadowlands was home to a number of businesses including a Ford dealership (which also carried New Holland farm machinery), a bank, a farmer's cooperative store, a grocery store, a commercial laundry, a cheese factory, various restaurants, a movie theater and the Toivola–Meadowlands School, a K–12 institution.

Midge Williams

Virginia Louise Williams, Midge's mother, helped run Singleton's grocery store and helped obtain a Girl Scouts of the USA charter for the Allensworth settlement.

One Park Place

Katharine Schilcutt of the Houston Press said prior to the store's opening that Phoenicia will become the first major grocery store in Downtown.

Pattanathil Sundaran

The story follows Kizhakkethil Sundaresan (Dileep), a grocery store owner who never attended college, who is married to Radhamani (Navya Nair), a M.Sc. graduate.

Pillsbury Company

Later acquisitions included restaurants such as Burger King, Steak and Ale, Bennigan's, Godfather's Pizza, Häagen-Dazs and Quik Wok, plus popular grocery store food brands such as Green Giant.

Preacher Roe

Roe lived in West Plains, Missouri, where for many years he operated a small grocery store and has a street named after him (Preacher Roe Boulevard), which included U.S. 160 north of the US 63 bypass until the city rerouted U.S. 160 and Route 17 circa 2000.

Prosartes trachycarpa

The berry is larger than a Saskatoon, pincherry or chokecherry, about the size of a grocery store cherry or small grape.

Rancho Novato

Francis C. DeLong (June 10, 1808, Cornwall, Vermont – February 11, 1885, Novato) came to California in 1850, and opened a grocery store in San Francisco.

Shop 'n Save

Shop ’n Save was founded in 1979 as a grocery store in Belleville, Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.

Skaggs Companies

The first company was based in American Falls, Idaho, where in 1915 Samuel M. Skaggs founded a grocery store and operated it as Skaggs' Cash Store, which was sold to his son Marion Barton Skaggs.

Southwood, Calgary

The community has three gasoline filling stations (with attached convenience stores), a Tim Hortons, Humpty's restaurant, several fast food outlets, two liquor stores, a Bentley's Pub, a branch of the Bank of Montreal, two dental offices, a Box brand grocery store, Planet Organic Market, Fabricland (Fabric and sewing supplies), Southwood Automotive car repair, a car wash and a dog wash.

Steak sauce

Along with A1 and Lea & Perrins, several smaller companies and specialty producers manufacture steak sauce, and most major grocery store chains offer private-label brands.

Super Saver Foods

In 1994, American Stores Company, parent company of Acme and Lucky food stores decided to start a discount format grocery store chain in California.

Tommy Thevenow

He had operated a grocery store in his hometown of Madison, Indiana following his retirement from baseball.

United Carolina Bank

In 1987, UCB began opening branches in Winn-Dixies in North Carolina, joining Central Carolina Bank and Trust as the second bank in the state to open grocery store branches in North Carolina.

University Neighborhood, Syracuse, New York

This plaza has a grocery store, Eckerd drug store, liquor store, barber shop, as well as a UPS Store behind it.

Who Threw That Ham at Me

A music video was filmed in Baltimore on November 7, 2009 at the American Visionary Art Museum and Eddie's grocery store.