(This is a work in progress.)

1872: A&P opens its first Pittsburgh location at 44 Smithfield Street,

Before 1910: P.H. Butler Grocery Company is established.

By 1920: Eagle Grocery Company is established by the Goldstein, Porter, and Chait families.

1920s: OK Grocery Company is founded by the Moravitz and Weizenbaum families.

1928: Kroger acquires the Eagle Grocery Company. The founding families agree not to re-enter the grocery field for three years.

1931: The founding families of Eagle Grocery and OK Grocery join to form a new company, opening the fist Giant Eagle supermarket at 756 Brownsville Road in 1936. Smaller stores continue to operate under the OK Grocery name.

1935: The Jefferson Grocery Company opens its first Streamline Market at 7301 Penn Avenue.

1936: A&P moves into the supermarket era by opening the chain’s first American supermarket location in Braddock.

1938: P.H. Butler begins operating new. supermarkets under the Thorofare name. The first seems to have opened at 310 Market Street in downtown Pittsburgh.

1943: P.H. Butler/Thorofare acquires 18 of the 23 Streamline Markets. The remainder rebrand as Victory Markets.

1948: Victory Markets rebrands as Sparkle Markets.

1956: Loblaws acquires Sparkle Markets.

1959: Loblaws acquires Star Markets.

1964-1969: Loblaws rebrands its stores as Del Farm.

1972: Loblaws/Del Farm shuts down its Youngstown region resulting in the closure of the Pittsburgh stores. Many become franchised Foodland outlets, but a large number of those fail within the first few years.

1979: A&P closes all but five of its Pittsburgh area locations.

1982: Thorofare goes out of business.

1984: Kroger exits the Pittsburgh market.

More to come…