what are you talking about? Within a mile of my house we also have a Kings, an A&P, and a Trader Joes. Not much farther away are Wegman’s, Whole Foods, Aldi, and a slew of others.
And id we’re going to include places like Walmart and Target, we should certainly incluse Costco, BJs, and Sam’s Club.
sorry, but it was King Kullen… Wikipedia isn’t always right.
When I was a kid in New Zealand in the 70s, there were only two grocer brands spread across the region - A-1 and 4 Square, represented by a bee and a little man in a shop apron, respectively. I lived in a tiny rural village so they were fairly typically dusty old wooden-shelved stores, like it was only slightly more advanced than the Waltons.
Eventually they were superseded by proper large-scale supermarkets, a new experience for we bumpkins, starting with New World, then Countdown, and another one I can’t remember. Pak n Save, too, I think. They’re all still around.
If your town had both a Grand Union and a Winn-Dixie you were forced to choose sides and it was brother against brother.
I wonder who would win in a fight, Food Tiger or Food Lion?
If only someone could provide some data and cites.
I call it The Yellow Store.
I suppose, to make a useful contribution to the thread, I could mention Alpha Beta (defunct), Henry’s (also defunct), and Nester’s (funct).
It depends on whether the Giant Eagle gets involved.
Let the Iggle soar!
Many moons ago Letterman suggested the name “Lick N Buy.”
Food Lion is Belgian-owned:
Yep, we had Foodland (are they even around anymore?)
Giant Eagle
Shop and Save (the teenagers who worked there always called it “Slop and Slave”)
Kuhns
And when I was in high school, I worked at a family owned place called “Shopper’s Choice”. (Sadly they closed down a few years ago.)
Larry Kroger shops there, though he sometimes shops are Krogers. 
The first supermarket I remember is the long-gone Bohack’s.
Others were
A&P
Grand Union
P&C
Albany Public Markets
Price Chopper
Shop Rite
Great American
Super Shop and Save/Hannaford
In Ohio we shopped at the A&P or Buckeye’s.
In New Orleans it was Schwegmann’s. They had open coolers of Dixie beer on ice so you could sip some suds while shopping. The always interesting grocery bags were printed with something to cut and color appropriate to the season like Christmas projects, Mardi Gras masks, back-to-school book covers, and, one sad year, 'Aints sad face bags to wear to the games you were embarassed to seen at.
In Florida it’s Publix or the Winn-Dixie. The latter has a swipe card that, for money spent on groceries, gives you per gallon discounts on gas at cooperating stations. Last month I had company and also laid in some hurricane supplies so we ended up filling both cars for $1.27/gal.
There’s a local deep discount chain in my neck of the woods called GO Grocery Outlet. It’s well known for selling products that are about six seconds away from expiring.
I always thought the Here Everything’s Better (HEB) chain was so oddly named. And so Texan. But the Denver King Soopers is not far behind!
Chuck, even without Albany Public Markets, I can see that you live(d) near me. Price Chopper is in the process of changing its name, with great fanfare (good name for a supermarket) to something that is supposed to sound more high-end.
I was trying to remember the name P & C - it’s now a Tops. Shop Rite had an irritating little song: “Shop Rite and always SAVE!”.
So many of the stores use incorrect spellings (I assume they meant “shop right” and not “shop rite”, at least I hope so), why does that make the store more attractive?
By the way, the Foodland I mentioned was in the West Indies and there was also a Foodfair. When I lived in England, my very least favorite store was Bejam, at least partly because of the name.
And while I’m at it, from my time in Honolulu I remember Foodland there but was never sure if they were related to the Foodlands here in Thailand. But most students shopped at one of the two near campus – Star Market, between King and Beretania streets (I’ve heard that Times Supermarkets, another Hawaiian chain, has since bought up all the Star Markets); or Safeway in Manoa Marketplace shopping center up in the Manoa Valley.
Whenever I hear about Food Lion, I think of the hidden camera investigative report from a national news organization some years back. A supermarket employee was caught advising other worker(s) “Sell the bad stuff first”.
I shop at the Giant Predatory Bird supermarket.
We don’t have any with good names. Wegman’s and Tops. When I was a kid in the 90s, there was a Super Duper but those are long gone now.
I think you grew up near where I did. We had wea gmail came later but we had Tops, Super Duper, Bells, and Park Edge
as a kid I insisted on That place…
