when and where were supermarkets first established
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Supermarket The concept of a self-service grocery store was developed by entrepreneur Clarence Saunders and his Piggly Wiggly stores. His first store opened in 1916. Saunders was awarded a number of patents for the ideas he incorporated into his stores. The stores were a financial success and Saunders began to offer franchises.
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History It was that year that he resigned from Piggly Wiggly to start his own grocery store. An American Success Story On Sept. 6, 1930, George Jenkins opened his first store, called Publix Food Store, in Winter Haven.
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Pleasant Family Shopping This store still exists, albeit in extensively remodeled form. By any measure, 1962 was the Year of the Discount Store. Two months later, on May 1, the first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota, and two months after that, on July 2, came the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas. Thus the stage was set for a key part of the retail drama that continues to play out today.
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Walmart Canada Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Walmart Canada was established in 1994 with the acquisition of the Woolco Canada chain. The company has expanded rapidly and in 2006 launched its successful supercentre format.
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- First Pret a Manger restaurant. A restaurant named Pret a Manger was founded by Jeffrey Hyman on 21 October 1983. The first Pret A Manger shop opened in Hampstead, London, in 1984. The name Prêt à Manger (French pronunciation: ​[pʁɛt‿a mɑ̃ʒe], ready to eat) was based on prêt-à-porter, French for ready-to-wear clothing.
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A Quick History of the Supermarket In 1928, the new chain bought most of the west coast’s Piggly Wiggly stores, and later acquired Sanitary Stores in the Washington DC area as well as MacMarr Stores, another chain that Charles Merrill had assembled.
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- In October 2011, Primark opened its first concession model. Primark is now stocked in Selfridges department stores in Trafford Centre, Manchester, The Bull Ring, Birmingham and Oxford Street, London.n May 2006, the first Primark store outside Ireland and the UK opened in Madrid, Spain. In December 2008, Primark opened its first stores in the Netherlands, followed in 2009 by its first stores in Portugal, Germany and Belgium.
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Supermarket Early self-service grocery stores did not sell fresh meats or produce. Combination stores that sold perishable items were developed in the 1920s. Historically, there was debate about the origin of the supermarket, with King Kullen and Ralphs of California having strong claims.
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Giant-Landover In 1962, Giant opened its first combination food store and pharmacy located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, in the Southdale Shopping Center. Israel Izzy Cohen inherited the family mantle in 1964 and built the company into the 12th-largest food chain in the United States. 1990s. Cohen died in 1995 at the age of 83.
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Tesco Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen as a group of market stalls. The Tesco name first appeared in 1924, after Cohen purchased a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and combined those initials with the first two letters of his surname, and the first Tesco store opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Barnet.
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Where did the Rx symbol come from? The world’s first recorded prescriptions were etched on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia around 2100 B.C., while the first drugstores were established in the ancient city of Baghdad in the eighth century A.D. America’s earliest drugstores date to the 17th century, in places such as Boston and New York. Before he became infamous as a traitor during the Revolutionary War, Benedict Arnold was an apothecary, or pharmacist, in Connecticut. The first college of pharmacy in the United States was founded in 1821 in Philadelphia.
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Our Story Today, Shaw’s® and Star Market ® continues to thrive and is working to become the favorite food and drug retailer in every state it operates. Shaw’s is one of the oldest continuously operated supermarkets in the United States with its roots dating to 1860. Throughout five New England states, there are 154 store locations (including Star Market’s) employing approximately 20,000 associates. Historical Dates: 1  May 26, 1860 – Twenty-seven year old George Clinton Shaw opened a small retail grocery store at 285 Middle Street in Portland, Maine.
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- Walmart was founded by the Waltons. Co-founder Sam M. Walton opened a franchise Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas in 1945. His brother, James L. Walton, opened another store in Versailles, Missouri the following year.
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- Beginning in 1984, Whole Foods Market began its expansion out of Austin, first to Houston and Dallas and then into New Orleans with the purchase of Whole Food Company in 1988. In 1989, we expanded to the West Coast with a store in Palo Alto, California.he original Whole Foods Market opened in 1980 with a staff of only 19 people. It was an immediate success. At the time, there were less than half a dozen natural food supermarkets in the United States. We have grown by leaps and bounds since our first store opened.
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- About About Dunkin Donuts was established 1950 in Massachusetts and in 2014 they opened up their first store in Sweden. Dunkin Donuts was established 1950 in Massachusetts and in 2014 they opened up their first store in Sweden.
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All Walmart Locations The first Walmart store was opened by Sam Walton in July 1962. Walmart is the world's largest retailer, with over 11,000 stores in 27 countries under 71 different banners.
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- Primark was first opened by Arthur Ryan in June 1969 in Mary Street, Dublin under the name Penneys. Further expansion and success in Ireland led to the move to the United Kingdom, and, in 1971, it opened a large store in Belfast City Centre before opening four out-of-town stores in England in 1973.In October 2011, Primark opened its first concession model.urther expansion and success in Ireland led to the move to the United Kingdom, and, in 1971, it opened a large store in Belfast City Centre before opening four out-of-town stores in England in 1973. In October 2011, Primark opened its first concession model.
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Chain store The first recorded chain store was British-owned W H Smith. Founded in London in 1792 by Henry Walton Smith and his wife, the store sells books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, and entertainment products. In the U.S., chain stores began with the founding of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in 1859.y the 1930s, chain stores had come of age, and stopped increasing their total market share. Court decisions against the chains' price-cutting appeared as early as 1906, and laws against chain stores began in the 1920s, along with legal countermeasures by chain-store groups.
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- Walmart opened Supermercado de Walmart locations to appeal to Hispanic communities in the United States. These stores are similar to Walmart Neighborhood Markets. The first one, a 39,000 square feet (3,600 m2) store in the Spring Branch area of Houston, opened on Wednesday April 29, 2009.The store was a conversion of an existing Walmart Market.almart Neighborhood Market is a chain of grocery stores launched by Walmart in 1998.
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Pleasant Family Shopping July 2, 1962 - The First Walmart Opens. Ben Franklin could’ve had it made. I’m not referring to the “founding father”, of course – the one Americans will honor tomorrow, he of the long hair and granny glasses, kites, keys and lightning bolts, Almanacks and The Saturday Evening Post.
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Nicholas J. Corea  [show article only]hover over links in text for more info The first Blockbuster store opened October 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. The founder of the company was David Cook, who grew the business and brought it public. The innovation was derived from Cook's experience with managing huge databases.
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- European Expansion. Urban Outfitters was the first brand of the URBN portfolio to cross the Atlantic in 1998, opening a store on Kensington High in London. Eleven years later, Anthropologie followed, opening a store on Regent Street, (also in London) that spans 11,000 square feet across three floors.
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- Sam Walton's strategy was built on an unshakeable foundation: The Lowest Prices Anytime, Anywhere. On July 2, 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Walmart store in Rogers, Ark. The Walton family owned 24 stores, ringing up $12.7 million in sales.
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History of Walmart The company's first stock split occurred in May 1972 at a market price of $47. By this time, Walmart was operating in five states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma, and expanded into Tennessee in 1973, and Kentucky and Mississippi in 1974. As the company expanded into Texas in 1975, there were 125 stores with 7,500 associates, and total sales of $340.3 million.
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Pop-up retail Comme des Garçons opened, for one year, a pop-up shop in 2004 with the 'Guerrilla Shop' tag. Trendwatching.com claims to have coined the term Pop-Up Retail in January 2004. In November 2013, Samsung opened a pop-up shop in New York City's Soho area that worked as a brand experience space.
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History of Walmart Also in 1988, the first Wal-Mart Supercenter was opened in Washington, Missouri. The supercenter concept features everything contained in an average Walmart discount store, in addition to a tire and oil change shop, optical center, one-hour photo processing lab, portrait studio, and numerous alcove shops such as banks, cellular telephone stores, hair and nail salons, video rental stores, and fast food outlets.