These are individual history pages on various chains around the country. Some have more information than others. It is not my goal to document every chain that has ever existed in the United States. If you would like to know more about the criteria for inclusion, please read this. If you would like to contribute a page, please contact me.
I am not maintaining most of the chain histories as actively as I would like, although I do try to add (or link) interesting information resources as I find them.
- National Chains
- Regional Chains
- Almacs
- American Stores/ACME
- Alpha-Beta
- Bel Air (Sacramento)
- H.C. Bohack
- Cala Foods and Bell Markets
- Central Market, Price Chopper, and Market 32
- Centromart
- Colonial Stores, Pender’s, and Big Star
- Food Town and Food Lion
- Fry’s
- First National/Finast
- Giant Eagle
- Giant Food (Washington, DC)
- Grand Union
- Hannaford Bros
- Harris Teeter
- HEB (H.E Butt)
- Hughes Markets
- Jewel
- Littleman Stores
- Lucky Stores
- Market Basket
- Mayfair Markets
- Metro
- Penn Fruit
- Publix
- Purity Stores (California)
- QFI
- Save-Mart
- Raley’s
- Ralphs Grocery Company
- Stater Bros
- Steinberg
- Stop & Shop
- Thriftimart
- Tops Markets
- Vons
- Winn-Dixie