[Magdalen] Beating Wikipedia to the punch.

[Jay Weigel]

Martin's here expanded into the Richmond area by buying up the beloved
Ukrop's chain (and that didn't improve Ukrop's any, believe me!). Now it's
merged with Food Lion, which is owned by one of two Giant outfits that I
never can keep straight--there's Giant, and then there's Giant Eagle.
Martin's carries the same house brands as a regional chain I was familiar
with in Tennessee, Food City, which is owned by an outfit called (I think)
Tennva, or something close to that. We used to have Winn-Dixie in east TN,
but no longer do; they shrank back south.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> grocery in city and suburban  area / Houston - Albertson moved into
> Houston about 12 years ago and never really caught on as a regional chain
> HEB had only recently come to town. When A'sons packed up and left about
> 1/2 their stores got bought up by Kroger. Safeway decamped in the early
> '80s during an economic downturn here and then about 10 years ago bought up
> a local formerly "tony" chain Randalls which retained their name but
> carries Safeway store brands. Aldi moved in a few years ago about the same
> time Trader Joes opened up 2 locations. We've had Whole foods (started in
> Austin TX) for years but now they're expanding into upscale suburban areas.
> Fiesta is a regional chain that began by appealing to Mexican food lovers
> and they have great produce too... And then another regional chain Food
> Town is located in lower end areas around the city and they also have great
> produce.  Within 5 miles of where I live I could shop at 10 different
> grocery stores and have a choice of more than one of at least 3 of them.
> Oh and then there's Walmart....
>
> When I was feeding 5 I would look at all the weekly circulars and shop
> sales accordingly. Now, cooking for one I try not to over shop and
> sometimes succeed!
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 19, 2015, at 10:59 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> Our local Lucky grocery store long ago became Albertson's and then later
> became SaveMart.  Tonight, as Everett and I were toddling away with our
> tummy's full of dinner from a restaurant nextdoor, we look up, and it's
> Lucky again.  Aughhhhhhhh.
>
> It's always been the same people, hence the same crappy service, but
> there's power (albeit really, really small, in this case) in a name.
>
> CVS (formerly Longs, except still in Hawaii) seems to have held onto their
> name rather well, I think.
>