While anyone living in Maryland, West Virginia, or Ohio among some parts of America will know the brand and have shopped there, what about the rest of the country? Here are 20 things you might not know about Giant Eagle. Giant Eagle was first founded in , by three families — Goldstein, Porter, and Chait. In , the families sold Eagle Grocery to the Kroger Company. As part of their arrangement with Kroger, the families kept out of the grocery business for three years.
But this was by no means the end of the story. Despite the problems faced by the business in the 30s and the 40s with the Great Depression and the Second World War, the chain began to grow steadily. Both of these banks have branches in Giant Eagle stores, and they are open seven days a week, except on federal holidays. During the s, they set up gourmet food sections, while expanding the average size of the stores to around 15, square feet.
The s also saw the introduction of its own trading stamp program, which only led to more growth for the company. In , Giant Eagle was ranked No. By , it was the 32nd largest privately owned corporation, which was determined and noted by Forbes. Looking back to , the supermarket chain is United States 49th largest retailer.
Sometime around this point, the supermarket chain had no alternative but to respond to the inflation with much more reduced prices and the introduction of more generic produces. At the same time, Giant Eagle mechanized its order filling and loading processes. The innovations continued with the establishment of bakeries in the stores which sold bakery products that are made from scratch in the shops. During this decade, the company also bought up the former Kruger warehouse located in Lawrenceville, one of the first of many offers made to offer commercial outlets.
The supermarket chain did this in order to double its warehouse size, though it did build a , square foot warehouse in the West End of Pittsburgh. While it quickly established its opening hours in its stores on Sundays, providing a seven-day weekly opening service, with the stores remaining open for twenty-four hours for the first time. One of the most significant technological innovations during this period was the introduction of the computerized purchasing system with a mechanical order filling and a number of new loading procedures that were likewise mechanical.
Giant Eagle rebranded some of its stores, renaming them Market District. The plan was to attract customers who are more upscale. Initially, only two stores were opened with this rebranding in , in Pittsburgh and in Bethel Park. The Giant Eagle logo is above the Market District logo to show the connection. Originally there were two stores, now there are 13 of them, with the fourteenth store under construction in a Cleveland suburb of Westlake, in Ohio.
The store is scheduled to be opened in Nowadays the supermarket stores feature the Redbox automated retail machines which sell and dispenses DVDs, but in the past, they once operated Iggle Video in many of its stores to act as video rental outlets. They have been phased out since the mid to late s as video rental stores have lost their business, and they have been replaced over the years by online services, such as online marketplaces such as eBay or Amazon, or by independent outlets.
In the meantime, two families — Moravitz and Weizenbaum — had been building their own successful chain of grocery stores named OK Grocery. The first Giant Eagle supermarket opens on Brownsville Road in Responds to consumers' wishes by discontinuing Blue Stamps and replacing them with lower prices, surprising the grocery industry and spurring an article in the Wall Street Journal. Computerizes buying system and mechanizes order filling and loading procedures.
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