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Thanks, Krogerclerk. With your posting, I did some more investigating and, lo and behold, that's precisely what happened to the Kennedy's chain. I'll say this: for a rural independent operating in very rural Appalachia, they had their act together. The stores had precision management and standards w...

kris-alyx wrote:oh i know where one was in virginia it was at roanoke va's tanglewood mall along with super x drugstores, they redid it a few years ago to just a regular kroger store.

This was NEVER a Kroger Family Center, sorry.

Hi all -- I worked for Kraft Foods for ten years right out of college and one of my first assignments was to the core of Appalachia, based out of Kingsport, TN. I called on mostly Krogers, Winn-Dixies, and Food Lions, but I also had quite a few Kennedy Piggy Wigglys which were exceptionally well run...

TW-Upstate NY wrote: I'm not even sure if that Giant chain is/was connected to Giant headquartered in Carlisle Pa.

The two Giant chains are, in no way, connected with each other. The Carlisle operation was light years ahead of the Scranton outfit.