List of supermarket chains in the United States

This is a list of supermarket companies in the United States of America and the names of supermarkets which are owned or franchised by these companies. For supermarkets worldwide, see List of supermarkets.

National chains [edit]

Aldi 1,401 stores^[1]
Delhaize Group 1,300 stores^[2] under the Bottom Dollar Food, Food Lion, Hannaford, Harveys, and Sweetbay Supermarket labels. Also operated the now-defunct Bloom chain (since merged into Food Lion).
Kroger 2,460 stores.^[3] Besides the parent company, stores operate under the Baker's, City Market, Dillons, Food 4 Less, Foods Co., Fred Meyer (technically a hypermarket), Fry's Food and Drug, Gerbes, JayC Food Stores, King Soopers, Owen's Market, Pay Less Food Markets, Quality Food Centers, Ralphs, Scott's Food & Pharmacy, and Smith's Food and Drug names.
Safeway Inc. 1,458 stores.^[4] Besides the parent company, some stores are operated under these banners: Carrs, Dominick's, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, and Vons.
Kmart Super Center 26 stores^[5]
SuperValu Inc. 2,398 stores. The Save-A-Lot name is its most common banner; other banners are Acme Markets, Albertsons, Cub Foods, Farm Fresh Food & Pharmacy, Hornbacher's, Jewel-Osco, Lucky, Shaw's, Shop 'n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, and Star Market.
SuperTarget 251 stores^[6]
Trader Joe's 353 stores^[7]
Walmart Supercenters 3,016 stores, plus 167 Walmart Neighborhood Markets.^[8]

Regional/local chains [edit]

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P)
- A&P Supermarkets (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York)
- Food Basics (Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas)
- Pathmark (New Jersey, New York, and the Philadelphia metropolitan area)
- Super Fresh (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
- The Food Emporium (New York City area)
- Waldbaum's (New Jersey, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island; Nassau and Suffolk counties)
Acme Fresh Market (northeastern Ohio)
Andronico's (California)
Arlan's Market (Texas)
Arteagas Food Center (northern California)
Associated Supermarkets (New York City area)
Balducci's (New York City, Washington, D.C., and their suburbs)
Bashas' (Arizona; plus one store in Needles, California)
- AJ's Fine Foods – upscale
- Bashas' Diné Markets (Navajo Nation)
Big M (Pennsylvania; northern New York)
Big Y Foods (southern New England)
BI-LO (southeastern US)
BJ's Wholesale Club (eastern US)
Bravo (northeastern US) – part of C-Town
Breaux Mart Supermarkets (New Orleans area)
Brookshire Grocery Company (Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana) – also runs Super 1 Foods (eastern Texas; plus Monroe, Shreveport, and West Monroe, Louisiana)
Brookshire Brothers (Texas) – sibling of Brookshire's
Broulims (Idaho)
Brown & Cole (Washington)
- Cost Cutter (New Jersey)
- Food Depot (Georgia and North Carolina) – part of SuperValu
- Food Pavilion
- Red Apple
- Save-On-Foods
Bruno's Supermarkets (Alabama)
Buehler's (Ohio)
Butera (Illinois)
Busch's (southeastern US; Michigan)
C-Town (northeastern US)
Cannata's Family Market (Louisiana)
Caraluzzi's (Fairfield County, Connecticut)
Chief Supermarket (Defiance, Ohio)
Coborns (Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota)
CobornsDelivers (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Wisconsin) – online grocery
Compare Foods Supermarket (North Carolina, New York City, Long Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)
Copps Food Center (Wisconsin)
County Market (midwestern US)
Crest Foods (Oklahoma City area)
Crosby's Marketplace (North Shore Boston area)
D'Agostino Supermarkets (New York City)
D&W Food Centers (Michigan) – owned by Spartan Stores
Dahl's Foods (Des Moines, Iowa area)
Dan's Supermarket (North Dakota)
David's Supermarkets (rural northern Texas)
DeCicco's (north of New York City)
Dehoff's Key Markets (Bay Area, California)
DeMoulas' Market Basket (Massachusetts, New Hampshire)
Dierbergs (greater St. Louis)
Econofoods (Twin Cities; western Wisconsin)
Fairway Market (southwestern Connecticut, northern New Jersey, southern New York)
Fareway (Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota)
Felpausch (Michigan)
Festival Foods (Minnesota, Wisconsin)
Food City (Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia)
FoodFair (eastern Kentucky, southeastern Ohio, western West Virginia)
Food Bazaar Supermarkets (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York)
Food Giant
Foodland (Hawaii) – including Sack&Save
FoodLand Supermarkets (Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
Food Lion (southeastern US, Mid-Atlantic)
Foodtown (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania)
Food Town (Houston, Texas)
Fred Meyer (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska)
Fresh and Easy (California, Arizona, and Nevada) – division of the British chain Tesco
Gelson's Markets (southern California)
Gerland's Food Fair (Houston, Texas)
Two separate chains operating as Giant, both subsidiaries of Royal Ahold:
- Giant-Carlisle (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia)
- Giant-Landover (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C.)
Giant Eagle (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland)
Giantway (Michigan)
Glen's Market (northern Michigan)
Gourmet Garage (mostly in Manhattan, New York City)
Grand Union (New York, Vermont) – aka GU Family Markets
Great American Food Stores (New York)
Great Valu Markets (Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
Gristedes (mostly in Manhattan, New York City)
Grocer's Pride (Houston, Texas; Mississippi)
Haggen Food & Pharmacy (Oregon, Washington)
- Top Food & Drug
Handy Andy (New Braunfels, San Antonio, Schertz, and Seguin, Texas) (now part of Arlan's)
Hannaford (New England; New York)
Harding's Friendly Markets (southwestern Michigan)
Harmons Grocery (Utah)
Harris Teeter (southeastern US)
Harp's Market (Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma) – competes against Walmart in small towns. Larger stores include sporting goods.
Harvest Foods (Arkansas) – created when Safeway divested its Little Rock division in the late 1980s. Assets bought by former employees. In the early 1990s, Harvest went bankrupt and Affiliated Foods Southwest bought the chain.
H-E-B (Texas, Mexico) – also operates H-E-B Plus and Central Market
Heinen's Fine Foods (greater Cleveland, Ohio)
Hiller's Market (greater Detroit)
Holiday Market (Royal Oak, Michigan)
Holiday Foods (southern Indiana)
Holiday Quality Foods (northern California)
Hollywood Super Market (northern Detroit suburbs)
Homeland (Kansas, Oklahoma, formerly Texas)
Houchens Industries (Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)
- Buehler's Buy-Low (Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana)
Hugo's (Minnesota, North Dakota)
Hy-Vee Food Stores (midwestern and central US)
Ingles (southern US)
Jack 'n Jill (North Dakota)
Jons Marketplace (Los Angeles area; Orange County, California)
Karns Quality Foods (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area)
Key Food (New York City and northern suburbs)
Key Markets – also see Dehoff's Key Markets (Bay Area, California)
King Kullen (Long Island, Staten Island)
Kings (New Jersey, New York)
Kowalski's (Minnesota)
Kuhn's Quality Foods (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
K.V. Mart dba Top Valu, Valu Plus & various other names (Los Angeles, California area)
Landis Supermarkets (southeastern Pennsylvania)
Lauer's Supermarket and Bakery (Pasadena and Riviera Beach, Maryland)
Lowes Foods (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
Lowe's Markets (Texas, New Mexico)
Lunds (Minnesota)
- Byerly's
Mac's Market (New Hampshire, New York, Vermont)
Macey's Market (northern Utah)
Magruder's (Washington, D.C. area)
Market Basket (southeastern Texas, southwestern Louisiana)
Mars (Baltimore, Maryland area)
Marsh (Indiana, Ohio) – includes O'Malia's
Matherne's Supermarkets (Baton Rouge, Louisiana area)
Martin's Super Markets (Indiana, Michigan)
Martin's Food Markets (Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia) – part of Royal Ahold (Giant-Carlisle)
Mayfair Markets (Hollywood, California)
McCaffrey's (New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
Meijer (Midwest)
Met Foods (New Jersey and New York City)
- SuperOne Foods (Minnesota)
Miller's Fresh Foods (North Dakota)
Minyard's (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)
- Minyard's
- Carnival – a Hispanic/international line, in August 2008 was sold to Grocer's Supply (Houston)
- Sack and Save – a discount line^[9]
Murphy's Marketplace (New Jersey)
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (CO, UT, WY, ID, MT, NE, MO, KS, OK, TX, NM, AZ)
New Deal Market (California)
New Deal Supermarket (Jackson, Mississippi)
Nash Finch Company (upper Midwest)
Nugget Markets (northern California)
Obriens Market (California)
Omni Foods (Massachusetts and New Hampshire)
Penn Traffic (New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont)
- P&C Foods
- Bi-Lo Foods (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area)
- Riverside Markets
- Quality Markets
Petosa's Family Grocery (Edmonds, Washington)
Piggly Wiggly (southeastern US)
Plum Market (Detroit area)
Preston-Safeway (central Indiana) – unrelated to Safeway Inc.
Price Chopper (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont) – unrelated to Associated Wholesale Grocers in Kansas/Missouri
Publix (southeastern US)
Quality Foods (Georgia and South Carolina)
QFC (Seattle area)
Quality Markets (New York and Pennsylvania)
R Ranch Markets (southern California)
Raley's (California, Nevada) – owns Nob Hill Foods and Bel Air Markets
Reasors (eastern Oklahoma)
Red Apple (Oregon and Washington)
Redner's Warehouse Markets (eastern Pennsylvania; also in Delaware and Maryland)
Remke Markets bigg's (Cincinnati, Ohio area)
Rice Supermarkets (Houston, Texas)
Riesbeck Food Markets (Ohio and West Virginia)
- Pick 'N Save (east-central Ohio)
Robèrt's Fresh Market (New Orleans, Louisiana area)
Roche Bros. (Massachusetts)
- Sudbury Farms (Massachusetts)
Roundy's
- Copps Food Center (Wisconsin)
- Pick 'n Save (Wisconsin, Illinois)
- Rainbow Foods (Minnesota)
- Ridley's Family Markets (Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming)
Rosauers Supermarkets (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington)
- Huckleberry's Natural Market (Spokane, Washington)
- Super 1 Foods (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas)
Roth's Fresh Markets (Oregon)
Rouse's Supermarket (Louisiana, Mississippi)
Royal Ahold
- Giant Food/Martin's Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia)
- Giant Food of Landover, Maryland (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC)
- Stop & Shop (New England, New Jersey, New York)
Sage's Market (California)
Save Mart Supermarkets (California: Bay Area, Central Valley; northern Nevada)
- FoodMaxx
- Lucky Stores (Bay Area, California)
- S-Mart Foods (Lodi and Stockton, California)
Schnucks (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee)
- Hilander (Illinois)
- Logli (Illinois, Wisconsin)
Scolari's Food and Drug (California, Nevada)
Sedano's (Miami, Florida)
Seller's Brothers (Houston, Texas)
Sentry Foods (Wisconsin)
Shop n' Save (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia)
ShopRite (Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania)
Southern Family Markets
Sunset Foods (Illinois)
Stater Brothers (California)
Stewart's Shops (New York; Vermont)
Stew Leonard's (Connecticut, New York)
Strack and Van Til (Indiana)
- Ultra Foods – discount division (Indiana; Chicago suburbs)
Straub's Markets (St. Louis, Missouri)
Sullivan's Foods (Illinois)
Sunflower Farmers Market (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah) – owned by founder of Wild Oats
Super 1 Foods (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas)
Superior Grocers (southern California)
Supersol (New York City, Long Island, Westchester)
Supremo Supermarket (New Jersey and Pennsylvania)
Sweetbay (Florida)
Times Supermarkets (Hawaii)
Tops (New York, Pennsylvania) – formerly included Martin's Super Food Stores
The Fresh Grocer (Pennsylvania, Delaware)
Thriftway Supermarkets (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
Trade Fair (Queens County, New York City)
Treasure Island (Chicago and Wilmette, Illinois)
Trig's (Wisconsin)
Turco's (New York)
Ukrop's (central Virginia)
United (western Texas)
Village market (Antrim County, Michigan)
Victory Supermarkets (Massachusetts, New Hampshire) – taken over by Hannaford
Vallarta Supermarkets (Los Angeles; southern California)
Wade's (Virginia)
Wegmans (Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Weis Markets (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia)
- Save-a-Lot (Pennsylvania)
- Scot's Lo-Cost (Pennsylvania)
- Giant Foods (Binghamton, New York area) – acquired by Weis in 2009
Wayne's Hometown Market (Hoxie, Ar)
Wesselman's (southern Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky area)
Westborn Market (Michigan)
Western Beef Supermarkets (New York City)
Wilson Farms (New York)
WinCo Foods (California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington)
Winn-Dixie (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)
Wise Way (Indiana)
Woodman's Food Market (Illinois, Wisconsin)
Yoke's Fresh Market (Spokane, Washington)

Retailers' cooperatives [edit]

Main article: List of retailers' cooperatives

Affiliated Food Stores (Texas panhandle; Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming)
Affiliated Foods Midwest (Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin)
Associated Food Stores – formerly Pacific Mercantile Cooperative; also see Western Family Foods
- Lee's Marketplace
Associated Grocers
Associated Grocers of Florida
Associated Grocers of the South
Associated Wholesale Grocers
Associated Grocers of New England
- Price Chopper / Price Mart (Kansas City, Missouri area) – unrelated to Price Chopper in the Northeast
- Country Mart
- Cash Saver
- Apple Market
- SunFresh
- ThriftWay
Associated Wholesalers
Central Grocers Cooperative
Great Valu (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia)
IGA
NSA Supernn,mnmarkets (New York City and Pennsylvania)
ShopRite/Wakefern Food Corporation
Shurfine Markets (Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland)
- ShurSave (northeastern Pennsylvania)
Spartan Stores (Michigan – Operates several banners, including Glen's Markets, D&W Food Centers, and Family Fare Supermarkets; Spartan Stores is a supplier for smaller supermarkets)
Thrift Way/Shop n Bag (New Jersey; Philadelphia)
Unified Grocers
Western Family Foods (supermarket wholesaler) – formerly Pacific Mercantile Cooperative

Deep-discount and limited-assortment chains [edit]

Aldi – U.S. operations of a German group
Cash & Carry (Chicago)
Dollar General
Dollar Tree
Food 4 Less (Los Angeles area and northern California; Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada)
Grocery Outlet (West)
Marc's (Ohio)
- Xpect Discounts (Connecticut)
PriceRite (Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California) – owned and operated by Wakefern Food Corporation
Sharp Shopper (Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Smart & Final (West), also owns Henry's Farmers Market and Sun Harvest
WinCo Foods (West)
99¢ Only Stores

Ethnic chains [edit]

Asian [edit]

Hispanic/Latino [edit]

Avanza Supermarket – (Denver)
Arteagas Food Center - (10+ stores in Northern California)
Baja Ranch Supermarket (formerly King Ranch Markets) - Hispanic chain in southern California
Big Saver Foods – (16 stores in Los Angeles area)
Bravo - Hispanic chain in Central Florida
Carnicerias Jiminez - (8 stores in Chicago area)
Carnival – Dallas area-chain operated by Minyard Food Stores; sold majority of stores to Grocers Supply in August 2008. Later most stores (including El Rancho, Jerry's, Terry's) were sold to Dallas-area independent retailers. Other Carnival stores were kept by Grocers Supply (Fiesta Mart) or turned into Fiesta's.
Cardenas Supermarkets – Hispanic supermarket chain in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, California
Compare Foods – over 60 stores in New York City, Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and North Carolina
El Pueblo – (Newark) largest Latino supermarket in New Jersey
El Super (Los Angeles and Phoenix)
El Rio Grande Latin Market - (Texas)
Fiesta Mart – Mexican-American, primarily in Texas
Freshco (Central Florida area)
Food Bazaar Supermarkets (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York)
Food City (Arizona) – Hispanic; owned by Bashas
Foodarama (Texas area)
Mariana's (Las Vegas area)
Mi Pueblo Food Center (Northern California/Bay Area) - Fastest Growing Hispanic supermarkets in Northern California -21 Stores
González Northgate – Hispanic supermarket in the Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County areas of California
Pro's Ranch Market – Hispanic (Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas)
Publix Sabor – Hispanic, operated by Publix
R Ranch Markets Hispanic chain in southern California
Rancho Liborio – 11 stores (California, Nevada, Colorado)
Saver's Cost Plus - (Texas)
Sedano's – Hispanic chain in southern Florida
Seller's Bros. (Houston, Texas)
Superior Super Warehouse – Hispanic warehouse supermarket with 28 stores in southern California
Supermercado El Rancho – Hispanic supermarket chain in Dallas, Texas area
Supersaver Foods – Hispanic-geared; operated by Albertsons LLC. Chain now closed except for a few stores in Utah.
Super Market Mexico – Online purveyor of Mexican foods.
Mi Tienda - Hispanic supermarket division of HEB Stores (1 store; Houston, Texas)
El Rancho – growing independent Hispanic chain in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area
Tenochtitlan Market – (Utah) Upscale Latin-American
Terry's/El Mariachi Supermarkets – Hispanic chain (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; Oklahoma City)
Twin City Supermarket - Hispanic chain (New Jersey)
Rio Ranch Markets – operates 8 Hispanic supermarkets in southern California
Rancho Markets – (Utah)
Viva Markets – (Utah) Hispanic grocery market and mini-mall

Specialty and natural foods [edit]

Bristol Farms
Central Market (division of H-E-B)
Dorothy Lane Market – specialty markets in Dayton, Ohio
Earth Fare – North Carolina, SE USA, Ohio
Home Economist - Charlotte and western North Carolina organic grocery
FreshDirect – online grocer in New York City
The Fresh Market
Lunardi's – San Francisco Bay Area
Market of Choice – Oregon
Metropolitan Market – Seattle, Washington
Mollie Stone's
New Seasons Market – Portland, Oregon
PCC Natural Markets – Seattle, Washington area
Nijiya Market_ Organic, Gourmet Japanese Foods
Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-Op – Everett, Washington
Spec's Wine, Spirits & Finer Foods – Texas; gourmet foods and alcohol
Sprouts Farmers Market – Arizona, California, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas
Stew Leonard's – Connecticut; New York
Supremo Supermarket - New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Trader Joe's – family also owns German Aldi group
Twin City Supermarket - New Jersey
Whole Foods Market
Ensenada Markets gourmet Hispanic Foods
Hubbell and Hudson - The Woodlands, TX

Defunct chains [edit]

Main article: List of defunct retailers of the United States#Grocery stores and supermarkets

References [edit]

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[2] ttp://www.delhaizegroup.com/en/Home/OurMarkets.aspx

[3] ttp://www.thekrogerco.com/finance/documents/2010_KrogerFactBook.pdf

[4] ttp://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=64607&p=irol-stores

[5] ttp://deadanddyingretail.blogspot.com/2011/10/current-kmart-supercenter-locations-as.html

[6] ttp://pressroom.target.com/pr/news/backgrounder.aspx

[7] ttp://www.grocery.com/trader-joes/

[8] ttp://walmartstores.com/AboutUs/7606.aspx

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List of supermarket chains in the United States

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National chains [edit]

Regional/local chains [edit]

Retailers' cooperatives [edit]

Deep-discount and limited-assortment chains [edit]

Ethnic chains [edit]

Asian [edit]

Hispanic/Latino [edit]

Specialty and natural foods [edit]

Defunct chains [edit]

See also [edit]

References [edit]

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