who owns your food suppliers.......

[GSCJR]

No Fresh Market or Wegmans

 

[Chris142]

The main go to here is stater brothers.

https://www.staterbros.com/

 

[y_p_w]

I'm fairly sure Krogers owns sprouts, or that's what I've read. At least the Albertsons Safeway merger is off the table, yet as of this morning Albertsons is now suing Krogers corp for "Not doing more to make it work." If they merged that would be essentially a monopoly.

Sprouts is an independent, publicly traded company.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/sfm

Someone mentioned Publix, which I recall is also independent, but family owned.

Albertsons bought Safeway Stores (which owned several brands like Vons) a while ago but I believe they basically incorporated the Safeway house brands into Albertsons.

As far as Kroger goes, I do remember seeing their house brands at QFC stores in the Pacific Northwest. I think they own Fred Meyer stores too. Around here they own some no-frills supermarkets like Foods Co.

There can be some oddities too, like shared house brands. There's a brand called Sunnyside Farms, along with a few others. It's a partnership between Save-Mart Stores and Raley's that includes a dairy.

 

[97prizm]

Sprouts is an independent, publicly traded company.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/sfm

Someone mentioned Publix, which I recall is also independent, but family owned.

Albertsons bought Safeway Stores (which owned several brands like Vons) a while ago but I believe they basically incorporated the Safeway house brands into Albertsons.

As far as Kroger goes, I do remember seeing their house brands at QFC stores in the Pacific Northwest. I think they own Fred Meyer stores too. Around here they own some no-frills supermarkets like Foods Co.

There can be some oddities too, like shared house brands. There's a brand called Sunnyside Farms, along with a few others. It's a partnership between Save-Mart Stores and Raley's that includes a dairy.

Oddly enough Albertsons especially disappeared in Colorado ten years ago or so. I'm still baffled how they bought out Safeway.

 

[y_p_w]

Oddly enough Albertsons especially disappeared in Colorado ten years ago or so. I'm still baffled how they bought out Safeway.

They're big, that's how. Even if they abandoned certain areas, that left them with a lot of markets they still served.

Certainly in California, the Lucky supermarket chain has a long tradition that ended when Albertson's bought their parent company American Stores. Our local Lucky Store became an Albertsons before they all seemed to vanish.

But apparently they sold off several locations of Save-Mart Stores and with it the license to use the Lucky name. We've got those now, which are just Save-Mart's stores in the San Francisco Bay Area using a well-known name. I remember Save-Mart tried to enter the market and failed.

 

[Nyogtha]

HEB is The Supermarket in Texas, with no stores in any other state. Here in Sunny San Antonio they've driven out all competition except Walmart and Target. We only happen to buy staples at Walmart when we go there for a specific item HEB doesn't carry.

When we lived in NE Ohio, Giant Eagle also had no real competition except Walmart and Meijer.

 

[4WD]

HEB is The Supermarket in Texas, with no stores in any other state. Here in Sunny San Antonio they've driven out all competition except Walmart and Target. We only happen to buy staples at Walmart when we go there for a specific item HEB doesn't carry.

Same for us - other than a couple places to buy meat ...

 

[SC Maintenance]

Never been to HEB, but I bet its good because its local. When Harris Teeter was "local" before Kroger bought them, they were much better. When I go to Publix when on vacation in Florida there also very good - the local ones are terrible.

Grocery stores seem to be something that needs to be local?

 

[Vil_Riker]

@Pablo post the infographic for the food manufacturers, too, to blow peoples' minds.

 

[Fitter30]

Bottom line what u can afford. There are several tiers in most places except very rural or inter city.

 

[Nyogtha]

Never been to HEB, but I bet its good because its local. When Harris Teeter was "local" before Kroger bought them, they were much better. When I go to Publix when on vacation in Florida there also very good - the local ones are terrible.

Grocery stores seem to be something that needs to be local?

HEB has their own factories in San Antonio to directly manufacture HEB brand groceries distributed in their stores throughout the state.

When I lived in Northern Ohio I particularly missed the produce section at HEB.

 

[4WD]

Never been to HEB, but I bet its good because its local. When Harris Teeter was "local" before Kroger bought them, they were much better. When I go to Publix when on vacation in Florida there also very good - the local ones are terrible.

Grocery stores seem to be something that needs to be local?

HEB is very active in helping others too. When the river left the banks near us - I happened to be in town to see highway patrol units flashing and leading something. I stopped to watch.
Convoy of HEB refer's full of food, huge food trailers/kitchens, and big CAT gen trailers - all headed to the city to cook for those displaced from their homes ...

 

[andrew_j]

I shop at Lidl and Food Lion. I looked up Food Lion thinking they were a local chain. Turns out they’re owned by a company in the Netherlands who also own Hannafords, Giant and Stop & Shop grocery chains here in the US.

Here’s a map I found online on dominant grocery store chains in each state.

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Market Basket dominates stop and shop in MA. It’s fiercely independently and owned by a family who has had infighting.

 

[Hall]

@Pablo post the infographic for the food manufacturers, too, to blow peoples' minds.

This is from ~5 years ago so it's no doubt out of date now

 

[Enthusiast]

I don't have time to search, but there has to be more than 20 in IL. There are 16 within 10 miles of my house according to their store locator.

I did a Google search and it turns out to be 184 in Illinois. It seems to be very heavy in Chicago land area. I don't really know how things are in Chicago land. Is there a rule preventing Walmart from having grocery sales or something in the Chicago land area? Because it just seems hard to believe that Jewel osco would truly be the number one for the whole state being that so many communities throughout the state don't even have a jewel osco But their own regional chains, other national chains dominating that area, and Walmart. This is why I don't have trouble believing Walmart winning in Missouri since St Louis has dierbergs and schnucks, Kansas City area has Price chopper and Hy-Vee. Considering how widespread Kroger is in Ohio, I have no trouble believing it has dominating the Ohio market.

 

[opus1]

I did a Google search and it turns out to be 184 in Illinois. It seems to be very heavy in Chicago land area. I don't really know how things are in Chicago land. Is there a rule preventing Walmart from having grocery sales or something in the Chicago land area? Because it just seems hard to believe that Jewel osco would truly be the number one for the whole state being that so many communities throughout the state don't even have a jewel osco But their own regional chains, other national chains dominating that area, and Walmart. This is why I don't have trouble believing Walmart winning in Missouri since St Louis has dierbergs and schnucks, Kansas City area has Price chopper and Hy-Vee. Considering how widespread Kroger is in Ohio, I have no trouble believing it has dominating the Ohio market.

I think you nailed it in your question - Chicago is the elephant in the room for Illinois. Most of the population in the state is in or around Cook County, and that drives things like grocery stores and the state voting democrat in every election even though most of the state is red. And I'm not going to take that last part any farther...

 

[Enthusiast]

I understand what you are saying.

I did a couple more Google searches and there are more Aldi locations (220) than Jewel Osco but fewer Wal-Mart locations (161) than Jewel Osco. I think the chart needs clarification on this one by what is meant for this one since Aldi has more locations. Even if there are so many locations in Chicagoland, I find this misleading as that is still very regional vs. Aldi.