![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() According to their website, “C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is an industry leader in supply chain solutions and wholesale grocery supply in the United States. Piggly Wiggly is owned by a company called C & S Wholesale Grocers. has an impressive portfolio of stores to its name including Baker’s, Food4Less, Mariano’s, King Soopers, and Ralph’s, Piggly Wiggly is not among them. It’s easy to understand why you might think this. The fine folks at Piggly Wiggly have realized that their mascot is rather cute and you can purchase a slew of merchandise featuring this pink fella. Piggly Wiggly, a name that rhymes and has the words “pig” and “wiggle” in it, is a supermarket chain with the claim to fame that it’s “America’s first true self-service grocery store.” Its mascot is, befittingly, a pig wearing a little paper hat like an old-timey grocer would wear. But of all the odd sounding grocery store names, the crown jewel has to be Piggly Wiggly. Two of my favorites are Giant Eagle, a chain in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the multistate chain Food Lion, because both are particularly ferocious-sounding names for a place where you pick up 1% milk and frozen chicken nuggets. Still, at least in name, they retain their unique provincial charm.Īnd it’s a good thing they do, because some of their names are delightful. But increasingly, conglomerates buy up these regional grocery stores so there are fewer companies owning grocery stores than ever before. For my girlfriend, the answer is Jewel, Sunset, and Dominick’s, which means she grew up in the Chicagoland area. For me, the answer is Market Basket, Shaw’s, and Stop & Shop, which means that I grew up in New England. One easy way to tell where someone grew up is to ask them what grocery stores they went to as a kid. ![]()
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