SC - Wegman's

Sat Apr 10 08:34:53 PDT 1999

At 22:15 9-4-99 +0100, Anahita wrote:
>We have LARGE regional chain supermarkets. I know A&P is an American
>company originally. When i was a kid in Chicago, we had the A&P. Another
>big chain was the Jewel Tea. It's probably been merged into some other corp
>by now?

Haven't seen a Jewel since I left Illinois.  On the other hand, we did have
the Tea Company here (CT) until they closed the local store last spring -
part of what I understood to be a major nationwide (or at least chainwide)
cutback.

>One of the larger chains out west here is Safeway. It's in Northern
>California and parts of Nevada (does it make it over the border to Oregon?)
>and is a hugely rich and powerful corp.

We had Safeway in Iowa.  And the one supermarket in Dunoon (Argyll) carried
Safeway brands, too. 8)

>Isn't there a large chain in the south? mid-atlantic coast? called
>Piggly-Wiggly? I love that name.

We had Piggly-Wiggly in Illinois, at least back in the late '60s, though I
think they did originate in the south.  My favourite chains (also southern)
are Harris-Teeter (just moved into the Norfolk area a couple years ago) and
Farm Fresh.

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