# Supermarket Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2015, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930 "2015-07-23T05:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/21 "2015-07-23T13:50:27Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > There was a chain in Minnesota called John’s (or whoever’s) Super Market. The locals called them “Super John’s.” > [@Aquadementia](#): > > I’ve shopped at a Red Owl, Super Value and a Food Queen, although some of them may have been grocery stores. Correction: It was the John’s Super Value. It’s been a while since I shopped there. All NJ offers is ShopRite, Stop & Shop, and PathMart. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/22 "2015-07-23T13:56:12Z")
Woody’s! ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/23 "2015-07-23T14:32:08Z")
I always liked the St. Louis grocery chain Schnucks. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/24 "2015-07-23T14:37:30Z")
> [@Alma](#): > > I always liked the St. Louis grocery chain Schnucks. My FIL, known for his malapropisms, used to call it Schmucks. Still makes me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/25 "2015-07-23T14:44:50Z")
More of a convenience store, but I give you [Wawa](https://www.wawa.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/26 "2015-07-23T14:48:47Z")
In Cleveland, we had “Pick-N-Pay” and “Stop-N-Shop”. Grocery store names with built-in instructions! ---
**Author:** ![Richey84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Richey84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richey84)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/27 "2015-07-23T15:35:54Z")
I’ve got a Food King near me. That amuses me. No modesty there! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/28 "2015-07-23T15:38:47Z")
> [@JerrySTL](#): > > There’s over 600 Piggly Wiggly’s around the USA. Piggly Wiggly invented the supermarket concept and most of the things we associate with it including self-service aisles, price marking by item, checkout lanes and shopping carts. It is hard to imagine but those concepts did not exist not all that long ago. They also went all in with a novelty name that established a precedent for other chains later. > **[Piggly Wiggly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly)** > > Piggly Wiggly is an American supermarket chain operating in the American Southern and Midwestern regions run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. Its first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is notable as the first true self-service grocery store, and the originator of various familiar supermarket features, such as checkout stands, individual item price marking and shopping carts.\[citation needed\] The company headquarters is in Keene, New Hampshire. As Pi... ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/29 "2015-07-23T15:45:28Z")
[**Kum & Go**](http://www.kumandgo.com/) is a chain of markets in the midwest similar to 7-11. I grew up with Piggly Wiggly and Market Basket in Anchorage, which was bought out by a local guy named Carr and renamed Carr’s Foods. Then Safeway bought the chain. Locally we have New Seasons, which is a locally-owned chain of organic type foods, Zupans, Fubonn (an Asian market), and Bi-Mart, and the usual bunch of Safeway, Fred Meyers, etc. There were Albertson stores here, but they were bought out by Haggen. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/30 "2015-07-23T15:48:07Z")
Bangkok has several Foodlands. We often shop at a Tops Supermarket or Gourmet Market, sometimes a Villa Market. MaxValu is a Japanese chain that operates here. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/31 "2015-07-23T16:01:37Z")
In Western North Carolina we have Ingles, which was named for its founder Bob Ingles. I like choosing the Spanish option on the self-checkout there: “Bienvenido a Inglés!” ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/32 "2015-07-23T16:39:56Z")
This wiki list of supermarket chains does not, alas, include your Food Lion. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_supermarket\_chains\_in\_the\_United\_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_the_United_States) ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/33 "2015-07-23T16:40:21Z")
Here on the east coast, there’s a supermarket chain called Western Beef. While that doesn’t sound so strange at first, it’s resulted in a few oddly named store-brand products, like “Western Beef Ice Cream.” ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/34 "2015-07-23T16:55:10Z")
Then there’s Whole Foods, otherwise known as Whole Paycheck. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/35 "2015-07-23T16:56:21Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > This wiki list of supermarket chains does not, alas, include your Food Lion. > > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_supermarket\_chains\_in\_the\_United\_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_the_United_States) > [@wiki wiki](#): > > Delhaize Group 1,300 stores under the **Food Lion** and Hannaford banners. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/36 "2015-07-23T17:09:07Z")
We used to have A & P, Grand Union, and in northern Alabama there was a convenience store chain called U-tote-em which had totem poles and Indian imagery drawn on the outside of the store and beer taps on the wall inside (make of that what you will). And 6-12. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/37 "2015-07-23T18:13:18Z")
My usual store is Food Depot. We also have Ingles, Kroger, and Publix, and we had a Food Lion but they closed and became another Food Depot. I used to really like Winn Dixie but there aren’t any around here anymore. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/38 "2015-07-23T18:15:52Z")
[Moo & Oink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo_%26_Oink) ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/39 "2015-07-23T18:57:27Z")
Having listed Bi-Lo earlier today, I just now say that [Food City has bought the Chattanooga area locations and will be changing them over.](http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2015/jul/23/food-city-announces-takeover-bi-lo-grocery-stores-chattanooga/316128/) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930/40 "2015-07-23T18:59:12Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > 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. My dad called it “Giant Iggle” because of his accent. I always hear it that way. GIANT IGGLE! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-names/725930.md?page=3)