Regional/local chains
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, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
The Food Emporium (New York City area)
Waldbaum's (Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island; Nassau and Suffolk counties)
Acme Fresh Market (Akron, Ohio area)
Andronico's (California)
Arlan's Market (Texas)
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)
Food City (targeted to Hispanic customers)
Big M (Pennsylvania and northern New York)
Big Y Foods (southern New England)
BI-LO (southeastern US)
BJ's Wholesale Club (eastern US)
Bravo (northeastern US; see C-Town)
Breaux Mart Supermarkets (New Orleans area)
Brookshires Grocery Company (Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana) – also runs Super1 Foods in 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 (southeastern US)
Buehler's (Ohio)
Butera (Illinois)
Busch's (southeast US; Michigan)
C-Town (northeastern US)
Cannata's Family Market (Louisiana)
Chief Supermarket (Defiance, Ohio)
CobornsDelivers (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota/Wisconsin online grocery)
Compare Foods Supermarket (East coast)
Copps Food Center (Wisconsin)
Crest Foods (Oklahoma City area)
D'Agostino Supermarkets (New York City)
D&W Food Centers (Michigan)
Dahl's Foods (Des Moines, Iowa area)
David's (rural north 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)
Dorothy Lane Market (Greater Dayton)
Econofoods (Twin Cities; western Wisconsin)
El Super (Los Angeles and Phoenix)
Fairway Market (southwestern Connecticut, northern New Jersey, southern New York)
Fareway (Iowa)
Felpausch (Michigan)
Fiesta Mart (Houston, Dallas, Austin, and Waco, Texas) – Hispanic and international foods
Food City (Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia)
FoodFair (eastern Kentucky, southeastern Ohio, and western West Virginia)
Food Bazaar Supermarkets (Connecticut, New Jersey, New York)
Food Giant
Foodland, including Sack&Save (Hawaii)
FoodLand Supermarkets (Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
Food Lion (southeast and Mid-Atlantic)
Foodtown (Northeast, mainly New Jersey) – a similarly named store, "Food Town", operates in the Houston, Texas area
Fresh and Easy (California, Arizona, and Nevada; division of the British chain Tesco)
The Fresh Market (North Carolina based - Southeast, Midwest, Pennsylvania)
Gelson's Super Market (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)
Glen's (northern Michigan)
Gourmet Garage (mostly in Manhattan)
Grand Union (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont – aka GU Family Markets
Great American Food Stores (New York)
Great Wall Supermarket (Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, 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, Seguin, Texas)
Hannaford (New England and New York)
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.
Harding's Friendly Markets (southwestern Michigan)
Harmons Grocery (Utah)
Harris Teeter (North Carolina and southeastern US)
Harp's Market (Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma) competes against Wal*Mart in small towns. Larger stores include sporting goods.
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)
JONS International 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 and Staten Island)
Kings (New Jersey and 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)
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 (southeast Texas, southwest Louisiana)
Mars (Baltimore, Maryland area)
Marsh (Indiana, Ohio; includes the O'Malia's)
Matherne's Supermarkets (Baton Rouge, Louisiana area)
Martin's Super Markets (Indiana, Michigan)
Martin's Super Food Stores/Royal Ahold (Giant-Carlisle) (New York, Virginia)
Mayfair Markets (Hollywood, California)
McCaffrey's (New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
Meijer (Midwest)
Met Foods (New Jersey and New York City)
SuperOne Foods
Minyard's (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)
Minyard's
Carnival, a Hispanic/international line – August 2008 – sold to Grocer's Supply, Houston
Sack and Save, a discount line[1]
New Cambodian Supermarket (Stockton, California)
New Deal Market (California)
New Deal Supermarket (Jackson, Mississippi)
Nash Finch Company (upper Midwest)
Nugget Markets (northern California)
Omni Foods (Massachusetts and New Hampshire)
Phil-am Filipino Store
PayLess Supermarkets (Guam)
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 South Carolina Corporation (Georgia and the Carolinas)
PinoyGrocery.com (Katy, Texas)
Plum Market (Detroit area)
Preston-Safeway
Safeway (aka Preston-Safeway, unrelated to Safeway Inc.; central Indiana)
Price Chopper (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont) unrelated to Associated Wholesale Grocers in Kansas)
Publix (southeastern US)
Quality Foods (Georgia and South Carolina)
Quality Markets (New York and Pennsylvania)
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 (Cincinnati, Ohio area)
Rice Supermarkets Also Rice Epicurean Markets (Houston, Texas)
Riesbeck's 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 (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 Supermarkets (New England, New Jersey, New York)
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)
Logli (Illinois, Wisconsin)
Scolari's Food and Drug (California, Nevada)
Sedano's (Miami, Florida)
Seller's Brothers (Houston, Texas)
Sentry Foods (Wisconsin)
Shaw's Supermarkets (New England except Connecticut)
Shop 'n Save (Pittsburgh) (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia)
Shoppers Food (Maryland, Virginia)
ShopRite (Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.)
Southern Family Markets
Sunset Foods (Illinois)
Star Market (Massachusetts)
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 Markets (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah) – owned by founder of Wild Oats
Super 1 Foods (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas)
Superior Grocers (southern California) – warehouse supermarkets operating 31 stores, mostly in south-central Los Angeles
Supersol (New York City, Long Island, Westchester)
Supremo Supermarket (New Jersey and Pennsylvania)
Times Supermarkets (Hawaii)
Tops (New York; Pennsylvania)
Thriftway Supermarkets (Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
Treasure Island (Chicago and Wilmette, Illinois)
Twin City Supermarket (New Jersey)
Turco's (New York)
Ukrop's (central Virginia)
United (west 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, 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
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)
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