Supermarket Names

I just read in another thread that there is a supermarket called “Food Lion”. For some reason, I find that very amusing. If we had one here, I would shop there always.

I used to shop at one caled “Foodland”. I visited the Land of Food, frequently.

Do you have any good food store names?

And, a couple of off-topics:

Someone told me that all supermarkets in Britain have a “s” in their names, eg Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Marks & Spencer. Is this true?

Is there a relationship between Walmart and Walgreens? Are they branches of the same company?

Apologies if these topics have been discussed before.

There’s also a Food Tiger.

Though my favorite (as far as names are concerned) is Piggly Wiggly.

No, it’s not.

Morrissons, Budgens and Waitrose are missing from your list, but so are:

Co-Operative
Lidl
Aldi
Iceland

There was a spoof news article that Aldi was to rebrand itself as ‘Value Bastard’. I would definitely shop there more.

My favorite supermarket name is one used by an outfit in the United Arab Emirates: Safest Way.

I saw stores in Stockholm by the rather forthright name of Konsum. Which means just what it sounds like, I suppose.

In Nanaimo, British Colombia, I saw one with the odd name of Overwaitea’s.

There’s over 600 Piggly Wiggly’s around the USA.

When I lived in Philadelphia I sometimes shopped at Acme (pronounced Ac-A-Me). Then again, many called the city Filthadelphia and I drove every day on the SureKill Expressway. What a town.

I currently shop at Giant Eagle. So don’t fuck with me, cause, you know, Giant Eagle.

Walgreens was founded in 1901 in Chicago by Charles Walgreen.

Walmart was founded in 1962 in Arkansas by Sam Walton.

I had always assumed that was the case, but your question made me do a bit of reseach and apparently they are not releated. Per this site: Walgreens - Wikipedia

So well before Sam Walton, there was Charles Walgreen.
As for grocery store names, I shop at Kroger and Publix (not a mis-spell). When I lived in Abu Dhabi, I shopped a lot a Spinney’s and Carrefour.

Back in the 60’s, Wisconsin had grocery stores named Krambo and Food Queen.

Yes, Walgreens is not a subsidiary of Walmart, but there are a lot of people who believe that it is.

I worked for Harris-Teeter for way too long. Got some nice stock out of it, eventually. But then Kroger bought them out and it was, “Here. Have a check for your stocks. Enjoy paying all those taxes, ha ha.”

In my life I’ve shopped at:

Kroger
Lofino’s
Fazio’s
Fulmer’s
IGA
United Dairy Farmers
Cub Foods
Meijer
Giant Eagle
Big Bear
Giant
Safeway
Harris-Teeter
Bread and Circus
Fresh Fields
Whole Foods
Food Lion
Food Star
Walmart
Target

We used to have Piggly Wiggly here. H-E-B is a (really great) Texas chain-- initials of the founder, Howard E. Butt. The joke was that if they merged, they would be called “Wiggly Butt.”

There used to be a grocery store in Charlotte NC called ‘Giant Genie.’

There was a chain in Minnesota called John’s (or whoever’s) Super Market. The locals called them “Super John’s.”

Thinking about the places I’ve shopped over the years in the various places I’ve lived, in no order other than how I remembered the names:

Red Food (Bought out and became Bi-Loin the mid 1990s.
Harris Teeter
HG Hills
Marc’s (Youngstown, OH)
Rulli Brothers
IGA
Jitney Jungle
Publix
Kroger
Your Dekalb Farmer’s market
Giant Eagle
Albertsons
Ingles
Sprouts
Wild Oats (bought out by Whole Foods)
Trader Joe’s
Fresh Market

I know there are more, but that’s what I can think of at the moment.

I’ve shopped at a Red Owl, Super Value and a Food Queen, although some of them may have been grocery stores.

Spain has both a Consum and an Eroski Consum.

Spar is found in many countries; it is originally German, I believe. In German, spar means “savings” or “cheap”.