We’re all familiar with thegrocery storechains which reign supreme in our modern era.
Unfortunately, many have sincefizzled outfalling victim to the ever-changing grocery landscape.
The 156-year old company officially shuttered all its operations in 2015truly the end of an era.
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Food Fair ate up Florida chain Setzer’s Supermarkets, then teamed up with the department store J.M.
Fields to offer both businesses within the same shopping centeran exciting new all-in-one shopping experience.
Later, with the purchase of the chain Best Markets, the alliterative brand name Pantry Pride was born.
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By the early 1990s, the Jitney Jungle name was plastered on over 100 storefronts.
Gone but not forgottenbecause who could forget a name like Jitney Jungle!
And, for a time, its growth really was electric.
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Later, the 1980’s were a glorious time of innovation for Dominick’s.
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