California
From the 1950s, until its merger with Albertsons shortly after a sale to Fleming Foods in the mid-1990s, supermarkets with the Big Bear name operated in San Diego County, California. It is unclear whether the name was licensed from the Ohio company, though ownership and operations were completely independent.
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