Defunct Department Stores of The United States - Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

Grocery Stores and Supermarkets

• ABC Markets
• ABCO Foods
• AJ Bayless
• Alfalfa's
• Alpha Beta (Acquired by Food for Less / Ralphs)
• Big Buy - part of Finast
• Big Bear Stores
• Boys Markets
• Buttrey Food & Drug
• Buehler Foods — Operated as Buehler's Buy-Low
• Cala Foods and Bell Markets — Rebranded as DeLano's IGA, others sold to other retailers
• Carter's Foods
• Clemens Markets — suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; acquired by Giant in 2006
• Colonial Stores
  • Big Star Markets
• H.C. Chaffee — Acquired by Safeway
• Daniel Reeves — Acquired by Safeway
• Delchamps
• Dick's Supermarket - Southwestern Wisconsin; Acquired by Piggly Wiggly in 2006--YakobYakobovich (talk) 15:53, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
• Eagle Food Centers
• Eastern Stores — Acquired by Safeway
• Eisner Food Stores — Acquired by Jewel Food Stores
• Edwards — joined Ahold to become Stop & Shop
• Expo Superstore — Vons big box format; Southern California
• FamilyMart — A&P
• Farmer Jack — A&P
• Finast - aka First National Stores, purchased by Ahold, rebranded Edwards
• Fisher Foods
• Food Basket — Acquired by Lucky
• Food Fair — later Pantry Pride
• Furrs Supermarkets - Furr's Cafeteria division still in business
• Giant — Ralphs big box format; Southern California
• Giant Open Air — Merged with Farm Fresh Food & Pharmacy
• Grand Union — NJ/NY Chain Bankrupt, bought and became Grand Union Family Markets in Upstate NY /VT
• Greater All American Markets — Acquired by Albertsons
• Greenwich IGA — Greenwich, New York
• Harvest Foods
• Hills Supermarkets
• Hughes Markets
• Jim Dandy — Acquired by Lucky
• Jewel T
• Jitney Jungle
• Kash n' Karry, now Sweetbay Supermarket
• Kessel Food Market
• Kohl's Food Stores — Acquired by A&P
• Laneco — Eastern Pennsylvania/Western New Jersey
• Liberal — Dayton, Ohio
• LoRay — San Francisco Bay area
• Loblaws — Northeastern Ohio; also Buffalo, NY
• Mr. AG's — Kansas; part of the IGA chain; last store closed in 1970
• Mr. D's IGA — Wichita, Kansas
• MacMarr Stores — Acquired by Safeway
• Maloley's Finer Foods — Northeastern Indiana
• Market Basket — Southern California; was owned by Kroger
• Max Foods — Rebranded Lucky
• Metro Food & Pharmacy — Rebranded Shoppers in 2004
• National Tea
• Newway — Acquired by Safeway
• O.K. Fairbanks
• Omni Superstore — Dominick's big box format
• Packer
• Pak and Save
• Pantry Food Stores — Los Angeles, California area
• Pantry Pride
• Pay’n Takit — Acquired by Safeway
• Penn Fruit — later Top Value
• Peter Reeves
• Pick-N-Pay Supermarkets
• Purity — San Francisco Bay area
• Purity Supreme — Boston area
• QFI
• Rack N Sack
• Ralph's — Seattle area, acquired by Top Foods
• Red Food — Chattanooga, Tennessee area; acquired by Bi-Lo Stores
• Red Robin Stores
• Red Owl — Chicago, Illinois stores only were sold to National Tea; remainder acquired by Supervalu
• Sampson Food Stores
• Sanitary Grocery Stores — After losing the Supreme Court case New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., Washington, D.C.-area stores were acquired by Safeway Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland-area stores were acquired by Twin Food Stores
• Sav-A-Center — A&P in the New Orleans, Louisiana region
• Schwegmann Bros. Giant Supermarkets - New Orleans; closed in 1999 after more than 125 years in business
• Seaway Food Town
• Seessel's Supermarkets — Acquired by Schnucks
• Skaggs-Alpha Beta
• Smitty's Marketplace — Acquired by Albertsons in Missouri, rebranded Fred Meyer in Arizona
• Standard Food — later Standard Dell Farms — Central Indiana
• Sunflower Market — SuperValu-owned natural foods market, closed in 2008. This chain was never affiliated with the southwestern U.S. chain of the same name.
• Super Duper
• Super One Foods — Acquired by Albertsons
• Super Place
• Super Saver Foods
• Sure Save — Chicago, Illinois; owned by National Tea, stores changed to National Tea
• Thriftway — Acquired by Safeway
• Tianguis — Vons' Hispanic format; Southern California
• Town and Country — acquired by 7-Eleven around 1998
• Twin Food Stores — Baltimore, Maryland-area; spunoff of Sanitary Grocery Stores
• Walt's IGA — Wichita, Kansas
• White Hen Pantry — merged with 7-Eleven in mid-2007.
• Wild Oats Markets