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In July 2015, Southeastern Grocers, the current owner of BI-LO, announced the sale of its 21 BI-LO stores in the Chattanooga market and eight stores in Northern Georgia to K-VA-T Food Stores, which would rebrand the stores under its Food City banner. This sale ended BI-LO's presence in the Tennessee market.
Ingles Markets, Inc. (stylized as ingles) is an American supermarket chain based in Black Mountain, North Carolina. [3] As of September 2021, the company operates 198 supermarkets in the Appalachian region of the Southeastern United States.
Piggly Wiggly was the first self-service grocery store. [5] It was founded by Clarence Saunders on September 6, 1916 [6] (although it did not open until five days later due to delays in construction), [7] at 79 Jefferson Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. [2]
Publix Super Markets, Inc., doing business as Publix, is an employee-owned American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. [1] Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and past employees and members of the Jenkins family. [5]
On September 1, 2020, Alex Lee, Inc. announced that it was purchasing 20 BI-LO stores in South Carolina and Georgia from Southeastern Grocers with the intent to rebrand 15 of the stores as KJ's Market IGA with the other 5 rebranded under the Lowes Foods banner. [13]
Ian was CEO of Southeastern Grocers between 2015 and 2017. [6] [7] His resignation was announced from Southeastern Grocers in June 2017, and he began his new role as CEO of Dairy Farm International Holdings (currently known as DFI Retail Group) in July 2017. He stepped down in 2023. [8] [9]
IGA was founded in the United States as the Independent Grocers Alliance in 1926. The headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois. [1] United States.
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