Greer's
is a regional chain of 35+ stores in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi
operating under the " Food Tiger " name in what are more traditional
format supermarkets. ( Photos courtesy of Adam
Topolnicki from
Greers. )
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Based
in Hong Kong is the conglomerate Hutchison-Whampoa that
operate the Park N Shop chain of stores. In China they were one
of the first western style retailers permitted to operate there.
Now they have 250+ stores in Hong Kong and Mainland China. (
Photos courtesy of the Hutchison Whampoa website.)
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Another
global top 20 retailer is the French company Group
Des Mousquetaires also known as Intermarche and / or ITM Enterprises.
Their stores in France and internationally operate under various
banners. Among them are Intermarche, Ecomarche and Netto as shown
here. ( Photos courtesy of the Intermarche website. )
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Portugal
based Jeronimo
Martins is one of the few interests that Ahold have
not divested in recent years. They have maintained their partnership
and 49% interest in the successful company who has stores in several
other countries including Biedronka in Poland. ( Photos courtesy of
the Jeronimo Martins website. )
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Owned
by Chile based Cencosud is
the Jumbo chain of stores
which along with their sister company's stores under the Santa
Isabel banner are located throughout Chile and Argentina. ( Photos
thanks to the assistance of Clariana Vanoni from Jumbo Argentina.
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The
leading retailer in Finland is Kesko who
operate a variety of store formats under the " K " banner and
have a number of other interests well beyond their retailing.
( Photos courtesy of the Kesko website. )
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With
a wide variety of store types and several banners, the La
Fragua company has stores in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
A 50/50 partnership with Ahold they
are now part of Central America Retail Holding Compay or CARHCO in
alliance with Ahold and CSU of
Costa Rica . ( Photos courtesy of the La Fragua website. )
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Of
course it wouldn't be right if I didn't offer photos from the
company I work for. Loblaw Companies' Atlantic
Superstore Division. ( Photos of the Yarmouth store courtesy
of the www.atlanticsuperstore.com website
which is not affiliated with the
company. Photos of Joe Howe and my home store in Spryfield
are courtesy of me. )
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leading retailer, Loblaw Companies
Limited operates stores under a variety of different banners
across the entire country not to mention the many franchise and independent
accounts they manage as well. ( Photos from the internet. ) |
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Marks
& Spencer is a well known name in the retail business.
Their only North American operations is the U.S. chain Kings
Supermarkets in New Jersey and New York. Several
years ago they intended to sell the chain but when offers fell
through they opted to retain the operations.( Photos courtesy
of the Marks & Spencer website. )
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Another
top 10 global retailer by sales is Germany's Metro
Group who are active in many areas of retailing and are
have always been an innovator in technology. Visit their initiative
at the Future
Store link where you can see what is to come in our business
and what they already have implemented...very good site / information.
( Photos courtesy of the Metro Group websites. )
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In Greece,
Metro Supermarkets has
stores throughout the country and are not affiliated with the Metro
Group of Germany. With several different banners, they operate
38 supermarkets and 25 Cash & Carry outlets. ( Photos courtesy
of the Metro Supermarkets website. )
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The
Miquel Alimentacion Group of
Spain has over 270 Suma supermarkets and 28 Gros Mercat Cash &
Carry / Wholesale Store businesses throughout the country. ( Photos
courtesy of Mario Puntonet Burch from the Miquel Group. )
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Now
the fourth largest supermarket chain in the U.K., Morrisons has
intensively been rebranding former Safeway stores at an average
of 4 stores per month. By the end of 2005 almost all of their 400+
chain will carry the Morrisons fascia. (
Photos from the internet. )
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A well
recognized name in supermarkets are the franchises of Piggly
Wiggly in the U.S. This group of stores shown are from the
Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company in Georgia and South Carolina and
are just a few of their 100+ locations. { See the Retailer Links
pages for other franchises }. ( Photos courtesy of Rita
Postell / Jimmy Miller from PWCC. )
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One
of Russia's largest supermarket chains is Pyaterochka who
have over 230 corporate stores in Moscow and St. Petersburg
with an additional 200+ franchise stores around the country.
The English portion of their site is both informative and insightful
of their businesses. ( Photos courtesy of Julia
Kolyasnikova from Pyaterochka. )
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Located
exclusively on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
is the privately owned 9 store chain of Quality
Foods. As you can see from these photos,
a company doesn't have to be massive to be able to have great
looking stores. ( Photos courtesy of Rob
MacKay from Quality Foods.
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Another
retailer from Russia is the country's largest overall called Ramstore which
is run by the Ramenka Company. In turn they are partners with KOC
Holdings of Turkey who own the Migros / Ramstore operations
there as well. Visually their stores have an impressive look
to them. ( Photos from the internet. )
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Yet
another German retail giant is the Rewe
Group who are the world's largest retailer cooperative
operating a variety of banners throughout Europe and beyond.
Russian stores are among their most recent expansions. The
look of the Billa store with the mountain background is something
else isn't it ?( Photos courtesy of the Rewe website. )
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One
of the most well known South American retailers is Supermercados
Rey ( or Kings Supermarkets ) from Panama. These photos / renderings
give us a good look of the appearance of their stores. ( Images courtesy
of Roberto Maduro from Rey. )
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