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36-399: Giant Food may refer to: Giant Food (Landover) , also known as Giant Food of Maryland, LLC, a division of Ahold Delhaize Giant Food Stores , also known as The Giant Company, a division of Ahold Delhaize See also [ edit ] Food Giant (disambiguation) Giant Hypermarket Giant Markets , a former grocery store chain that

72-686: A Dutch conglomerate. Ahold promised few changes to the chain, but Ahold was soon plunged into turmoil after a financial scandal. Starting in 1994, they expanded into the Philadelphia/Delaware/South Jersey area, but under the name Super G , as to avoid confusion with future sister chain Giant of Carlisle. In 2005, the decision was made to phase out the Super G trade name and convert the Southern New Jersey stores to

108-475: A clothing store called Pants Corral from 1972 until 1985, when it was sold to Carson Pirie Scott . That company converted all of the Pants Corral stores to County Seat . Cohen died in 1995 at the age of 83. A holding company was formed because "none of the members of my family have had any experience or interest in operating Giant Food..." Three years after Cohen died, Giant was bought by Royal Ahold ,

144-467: A common way to run hypermarkets. Japanese hypermarkets may contain restaurants, manga (Japanese comic) stands, Internet cafes , typical department store merchandise, a full range of groceries, beauty salons and other services all in the same store. A recent trend has been to combine the dollar store concept with the hypermarket blueprint, giving rise to the "hyakkin plaza"— hyakkin (百均) or hyaku en (百円) means 100 yen (roughly 1 US dollar ). Until

180-590: A grocery store alongside a drugstore plus off-street parking and an automobile lubrication and oil service. In 1933, men's and women's wear was added, and automotive department, housewares, and other nonfood products followed in succeeding years. In the mid 1930s, Fred Meyer opened a central bakery, a candy kitchen, an ice cream plant, and a photo-finishing plant, which supplied the company's stores in Portland and neighbouring cities with house brands such as Vita Bee bread, Hocus Pocus desserts, and Fifth Avenue candies. By

216-570: A larger rebranding campaign; the logo was shared with Stop & Shop until Stop & Shop updated their logo in 2018. In September 2012, Giant sold its 760,000 sq ft (71,000 m ) distribution facility in Jessup, Maryland . The company outsourced distribution to C&S Wholesale Grocers , relocating its operations to Pennsylvania. In 2019, Giant became an omnichannel grocery retailer through their launch of Giant Pickup, an online eCommerce channel to order groceries and pick them up at

252-611: A local Giant location. In 2020, Giant followed up with Giant Delivers, a direct eCommerce model that allowed online shoppers at Giant's website to place orders to be delivered directly to their home or office. Giant also allows eCommerce orders to be placed through Instacart . On January 17, 2020, Giant announced a new line of private label wines named Artie. The wines include chardonnay , pinot grigio , cabernet sauvignon , and sauvignon blanc varietals, and are available in 57 stores in Virginia. Giant evolved its loyalty program with

288-452: A minimum size of 2,500 m (27,000 sq ft). Despite its success, the hypermarket business model may be under threat from online shopping and the shift towards customization according to analysts like Sanjeev Sanyal , Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist, until 2015. Sanyal has argued that some developing countries such as India may omit the hypermarket stage and directly go online. Another category of stores sometimes included in

324-700: A significant degree of growth. The first branch was opened in Tehran under the name of Iran Hyperstar through a collaboration between Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim Group based in The United Arab Emirates. The Emirati holding is the main shareholder with about 75% of the company's shares. New branches were established after Iran Hyperstar’s first store found relative success. Now, other branches have been established in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Ahvaz, etc. The average Walmart Supercenter covers around 16,500 m (178,000 sq ft), with

360-477: A surface area of 3,300 square metres (36,000 sq ft), and was later converted into a regular supermarket. The substantially larger store that opened a week later in Auderghem , Brussels, covering 9,100 m (98,000 sq ft), is regarded as a more proper hypermarket that brought the concept to fruition. It was Belgian market development engineer Maurice Cauwe  [ fr ] , who adopted

396-658: A year had opened eight more. Also in 1958, the company opened its new headquarters and distribution center on a 40-acre site in Landover, Maryland . In 1957 Giant Food Shopping Center Inc. became Giant Food Inc., and fiscal 1958 saw sales of more than $ 100 million. In 1959 the company, with 53 stores (including nine Super Giant stores) went public. In 1959, the Cohens formed the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation. The foundation primarily donated to local human services organizations in

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432-516: Is Walmart . These are the two major Canadian hypermarkets. The Belgian retailer Grand Bazar opened three hypermarkets in a short span in 1961 under the name SuperBazar after Belgian law restricting the size of department stores was abolished in January 1961. The first SuperBazar , opened in Bruges on 9 September 1961, initially designed to become a non-food department store, however only covered

468-412: Is a subsidiary of Netherlands -based Royal Ahold. In 2006, Giant signed a five-year agreement with Starbucks Coffee to open Starbucks locations in several of Giant's stores. The agreement was not renewed upon expiration in 2011 because many of the shopping centers that played host to Giant stores also were hosts of standalone Starbucks locations. Giant introduced a new logo on August 21, 2008, as part of

504-482: Is also known in business context as Giant-Landover , to avoid confusion with The Giant Company , a Pennsylvania-based sister chain also owned by Ahold Delhaize and often referred to as Giant-Carlisle. Giant was founded in 1936 by Nehemiah Meir "N.M." Cohen and Samuel Lehrman. Cohen was a rabbi who had emigrated from Palestine following World War I and opened a kosher meat market in Carnegie, Pennsylvania . Lehrman

540-557: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Giant Food (Landover) Giant Food of Maryland, LLC is an American regional supermarket chain with 166 stores located in Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , and the District of Columbia . It is a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize , and headquartered in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland , near Landover. Giant Food

576-664: The NCR Corporation 's marketing campaign. In France, hypermarkets are generally situated in shopping centers ( French : centre commercial or centre d'achats ) outside cities, though some are present in the city center. They are surrounded by extensive car parking facilities, and generally by other specialized superstores that sell clothing, sports gear, automotive items, etc. After the successes of super- and hyper-markets and amid fears that smaller stores would be forced out of business, France enacted laws that made it more difficult to build hypermarkets and also restricted

612-1047: The 1 million member mark in 2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Giant pharmacies have served to vaccinate individuals in the region, and as of December 2021, surpassed one million vaccinations for the year, including COVID-19 , seasonal flu , and other vaccines. Hypermarket Hypermarkets, like other big-box stores , typically have business models focusing on high-volume, low- margin sales . Typically covering an area of 5,000 to 15,000 square metres (54,000 to 161,000 sq ft), they generally have more than 200,000 different brands of merchandise available at any one time. Because of their large footprints , many hypermarkets choose suburban or out-of-town locations that are easily accessible by automobile. Loblaws established its Real Canadian Superstore chain in 1979. It sells mainly groceries, while also retailing clothing, electronics and housewares. Its largest competitor in Canada

648-509: The 1950s included self-opening doors, mechanized checkouts, and open display cases to make meats and frozen food directly accessible to the customer. In the 1950s, Giant initiated a scholarship program to encourage students to pursue food management careers. Two of the first five recipients later became senior vice-presidents at Giant. In 1962, Giant opened its first combination food store and pharmacy located in Glen Burnie, Maryland , in

684-579: The 1950s, Fred Meyer began opening stores that were 4,200 to 6,500 m (45,000 to 70,000 sq ft), and the 1960s saw the first modern-sized Fred Meyer hypermarkets. The Midwest (then grocery) chain Meijer , which today operates about 235 stores in six US states, coined the term "super center", and opened the first of its hypermarket format store in Grand Rapids, Michigan , in June 1961, under

720-451: The 1960s, when a number of supermarket chains and retailers like Sears tried to sell fuel, but it didn't generate sufficient consumer interest at the time. Today there are approximately 4,500 hypermarket stores in the US selling fuel, representing an estimated 14 billion US gallons (53 billion litres) sold each year. In Australia, hypermarkets were at their peak during the 1980s. This

756-715: The 1980s, large stores combining food and non-food items were unusual in the United States, although early predecessors existed since the first half of the 20th century. The term "hypermarket" itself is still rarely used in the US. The Pacific Northwest chain Fred Meyer , now a division of the Kroger supermarket company, opened the first suburban one-stop shopping center in 1931 in the Hollywood District of Portland, Oregon . The store's innovations included

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792-627: The DC area and to Jewish organizations, including the Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, D.C. The Cohen Foundation refuses to fund programs that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, but does fund programs that promote Arab-Jewish coexistence. During this time Giant computerized its inventory data, customer information, and payroll and bookkeeping operations. Customer service features added in

828-715: The Southdale Shopping Center. Giant is noted as the first grocery chain in the United States to bring pharmacy services in-store. Israel "Izzy" Cohen inherited the family mantle in 1964 and built the company into the 12th-largest food chain in the United States. Around the time the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, Giant began opening new locations in predominantly Black neighborhoods, in response to early criticism over failing to do so since beginning operations. Giant Food also owned

864-632: The Stop & Shop banner; however, these stores did not perform well and in 2007 were sold to ShopRite franchises. The Delaware locations were to be remodeled and reopened using the Super Stop & Shop format, under the Super Giant banner. In 2001, Giant had 184 stores. In 2004, Ahold merged Giant and Stop & Shop and eliminated more than 600 positions at Giant's Landover headquarters, creating Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover , which itself

900-652: The amount of economic leverage that hypermarket chains can impose upon their suppliers (the Loi Galland ). The predecessor to Ito Yokado was founded in 1920 selling western goods, went public in 1957, and switched to that name in 1965. Seibu Department Stores was founded in 1956, and opened up its grocery chain Seiyu Group in 1963. Isao Nakauchi founded the first Daiei in Kobe in 1957, selling clothing, electronics, furniture and groceries all in one store. Jusco

936-606: The brand name "Thrifty Acres". In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the three major US discount store chains – Walmart , Kmart and Target – started developing similar format chains. Wal-Mart (as it was known before its late-2000s rebranding as Walmart) introduced Hypermart USA in 1987, followed by Wal-Mart Supercenter in 1988; The same year, French chains Carrefour and Auchan opened hypermarkets in Philadelphia and Greater Houston , respectively. Kmart opened its first Super Kmart Center in 1991; and Target came with

972-519: The concept from his frequent trips to the United States, particularly inspired from the Grand Union 's "Grand Way" center in Paramus, New Jersey . Carrefour opened its first hypermarket in 1963, at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois , France , The co-founders were influenced by the teachings of Colombian-born American marketing executive Bernardo Trujillo , who taught executive education as part of

1008-468: The first Target Greatland stores in 1990, followed by the larger SuperTarget stores in 1995. Most Greatland stores have since been converted to SuperTarget stores, while some have been converted into regular Target stores with the exception of 2 entrances (one example of this is the Antioch, California location). In the early 1990s, US hypermarkets also began selling fuel. The idea was first introduced in

1044-801: The general expansion of the American economy. At this time, the shopping center concept was taking hold in America and Giant put a new store in the Congressional Plaza Shopping Center in Rockville, Maryland . In 1955 the chain opened its first store in Baltimore. By this time 48 percent of all its stores were located in shopping centers. In 1958, riding a new merchandising trend of combination supermarket/department stores , Giant opened its first Super Giant store and within

1080-463: The largest ones covering 24,000 m (260,000 sq ft). A typical Carrefour hypermarket still covers 10,000 m (110,000 sq ft), while the European trend in the 2000s has rather turned towards smaller hypermarkets of 3,000 to 5,000 m (32,000 to 54,000 sq ft). In France, INSEE defines hypermarkets ( French : hypermarché/s ) as non-specialized markets with

1116-536: The launch of Giant Flexible Rewards in March 2020, encouraging a digital relationship with customers to earn loyalty points in return for gas and grocery savings, as well as redemptions for Giant products. The program was cited in the top 20 grocery reward programs in the country in 2020, via Newsweek 's America's Best Loyalty Programs. The program repeated its placement in 2022 and 2023, one of only nine national programs to place all three years. Flexible Rewards surpassed

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1152-1060: The only hypermarket or Big-Box Store operational in Australia are Costco Wholesale Warehouses with currently thirteen stores in Australia - four stores in Melbourne , three stores in Sydney , two stores in Brisbane and one store each in Newcastle , Canberra , Adelaide and Perth , with construction underway on the fourteenth store on Queensland's Gold Coast. There were plans for German hypermarket company Kaufland to open stores in Australia announced in 2019; these plans were cancelled in 2020. Hypermarkets did not exist in Iran until 2009 (1388 ه.ش.). Before that, there were some local hypermarkets, but international branches were nonexistent. Despite their late arrival, hypermarkets in Iran have achieved

1188-633: Was acquired by Weis Markets in August 2009 Giant Open Air , a former grocery chain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Giant Food . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Giant_Food&oldid=1053892172 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1224-590: Was created in 1970, and eventually became known as ÆON . In Japanese, hypermarkets are known as 総合スーパー (Sougou Suupaa, General Merchandise Stores). There is a distinction in Japanese between スーパー (Supers) and デパート (Departs) with the former being discounters, but the latter selling luxury brand clothing and quite often high-end groceries as well. Hypermarkets may be found in urban areas as well as less populated areas. The Japanese government encourages hypermarket installations, as mutual investment by financial stocks are

1260-603: Was especially prevalent during the era of South African owned Pick n Pay Stores and a now discontinued format of Kmart Australia Stores known as Super Kmart. This trend in the Australian market soon lost its appeal into the 1990s. Super Kmart stores were discontinued and Coles Supermarkets and Kmart Stores opened in the former location. Pick n Pay continued to operate in Australia until the 2000s when their locations at Aspley and Sunnybank Hills were converted into Coles Supermarkets and Kmart Department Stores. As of 2022,

1296-729: Was the financial backer who provided the funds for the company's creation. The first store was at Georgia Avenue NW and Park Road NW in the District of Columbia. In its early years, as African Americans experienced segregation , Giant was criticized for not opening any locations in predominantly African-American neighborhoods . The chain experienced rapid growth following World War II , growing from nine stores in 1946 to 17 in 1950. Co-founder Samuel Lehrman died aged 70 while wintering in Miami Beach, Florida in January 1949. Between 1950 and 1952, Giant added five new stores, joining in

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