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.
Woody’s!
I always liked the St. Louis grocery chain Schnucks.
My FIL, known for his malapropisms, used to call it Schmucks.
Still makes me laugh.
More of a convenience store, but I give you Wawa.
In Cleveland, we had “Pick-N-Pay” and “Stop-N-Shop”. Grocery store names with built-in instructions!
I’ve got a Food King near me. That amuses me. No modesty there!
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.
Kum & Go 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.
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.
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!”
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
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.”
Then there’s Whole Foods, otherwise known as Whole Paycheck.
:dubious:
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.
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.
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.
My dad called it “Giant Iggle” because of his accent. I always hear it that way. GIANT IGGLE!