Skaggs Companies was the predecessor to many famous United States retailing chains , including Safeway , Albertsons , Osco Drug , and Longs Drugs . The company owned several drugstore chains, but all of them were sold. Skaggs Cos. became American Stores in 1979.
16-685: (Redirected from PayLess ) [REDACTED] Look up payless in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pay Less , PayLess , Pay-Less , or Payless may refer to: Pay Less Drug Store , founded by Lorenzo L Skaggs in Rochester, Minnesota, and later became Osco Payless Drug Store , founded by Levi Justin Skaggs in Tacoma, Washington, and which later became Skaggs Companies Payless for Drug and Food ,
32-618: A cash and carry store. His son Lorenzo L. Skaggs , who had been involved in the predecessor to Safeway, founded the Pay-Less chain in 1937 in Rochester, Minnesota . In 1942, these chains merged with others and formed the Owners Service Company, shortened to Osco. In 1961, The Jewel Companies, Inc. acquired Osco Drug Stores. In 1984, American Stores bought Jewel , which had owned Osco Drug since 1961. American Stores
48-1060: A Canadian store Pay Less Food Markets , a grocery store chain in central Indiana acquired by Kroger in 1999 Payless Car Rental , an automobile rental company Payless DIY , a chain of do-it-yourself stores in Britain, merged in 1990 into rival chain Do It All, which later merged into Focus DIY Pay Less DIY, a chain of do-it-yourself stores in Ireland, renamed to become Woodie's DIY Payless (footwear retailer) , an international discount footwear retailer See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "payless" or "pay-less" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Pay Less All pages with titles containing Pay Less All pages with titles containing Payless All pages with titles beginning with Payless Less (disambiguation) Pay (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
64-893: A Canadian store Pay Less Food Markets , a grocery store chain in central Indiana acquired by Kroger in 1999 Payless Car Rental , an automobile rental company Payless DIY , a chain of do-it-yourself stores in Britain, merged in 1990 into rival chain Do It All, which later merged into Focus DIY Pay Less DIY, a chain of do-it-yourself stores in Ireland, renamed to become Woodie's DIY Payless (footwear retailer) , an international discount footwear retailer See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "payless" or "pay-less" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Pay Less All pages with titles containing Pay Less All pages with titles containing Payless All pages with titles beginning with Payless Less (disambiguation) Pay (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
80-953: A Skaggs Drug Center drugstore presence were combined (or expanded) to combination food and drug stores and re-branded Skaggs-Alpha Beta . To consolidate the names of some of its subsidiaries under one title with nationwide recognition, American Stores renamed some of its Skaggs Alpha Beta stores to Jewel-Osco in mid-September 1991. American replaced the Skaggs-Alpha Beta name with that of Jewel-Osco on all 76 stores in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas. One year later, Albertsons would buy 74 Jewel-Osco stores (some only months before named Skaggs-Alpha Beta) in Oklahoma, Florida, Arkansas, and Texas from American Stores. American Stores and its subsidiaries would be acquired by Albertsons in 1999. L.J. Skaggs along with his wife Mary Skaggs founded
96-582: A partnership that dissolved in 1977, with assets divided. Payless of Tacoma would exist in Pierce, Thurston and Kitsap counties as a separate company from Payless/House of Values which was formed in 1973 after Seattle based Gov Mart/Ba'zar and House of Values were merged. To separate the two companies (and confusion), the stores remained under the House of Values name before being rebranded as Value Giant . Once Payless of Tacoma declared bankruptcy in 1991,
112-581: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages payless (Redirected from Payless ) [REDACTED] Look up payless in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pay Less , PayLess , Pay-Less , or Payless may refer to: Pay Less Drug Store , founded by Lorenzo L Skaggs in Rochester, Minnesota, and later became Osco Payless Drug Store , founded by Levi Justin Skaggs in Tacoma, Washington, and which later became Skaggs Companies Payless for Drug and Food ,
128-466: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Payless Drug Store The first company was based in American Falls, Idaho , where in 1915 Samuel M. Skaggs founded a grocery store and operated it as Skaggs' Cash Store , which was sold to his son Marion Barton Skaggs . It took the name "Cash Store" as it operated on only a cash basis. With
144-581: The Alameda neighborhood and established four groceries in town, in part by buying the Freeman grocer and the Java Coffee Company. By 1926 it had grown to 673 stores, when it merged with Sam Seelig Company (in a deal orchestrated by Charles Merrill of Merrill Lynch to form Safeway). Safeway later acquired Pay and Take It Stores from Loronzo L. Skaggs in 1928. Safeway is considered
160-407: The assistance of his five brothers: Pepper Oscar Skaggs , Aron Sylvester Skaggs , Loronzo L. Skaggs , Samuel Olnie Skaggs , Levi Justin Skaggs , Marion Skaggs grew the chain, operated as two separate businesses, Skaggs Cash Stores (Pepper Oscar Skaggs) and Skaggs United Stores (M. B. Skaggs), to 191 stores by 1920. In 1921, Marion Barton Skaggs moved to Portland, Oregon , purchased a home in
176-569: The company headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah. American Stores was by far the larger organization, with 758 supermarkets, 139 drugstores, 53 restaurants, and 9 general merchandise stores in nine states when compared to the 241 Skaggs stores. Although the resulting entity bore the American Stores Company name, it was controlled by Skaggs management headed by Leonard S. Skaggs Jr. more familiarly known as Sam Skaggs. Stores in several markets having both an Alpha Beta supermarket and
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#1732791054884192-739: The company was merged with the existing Payless stores from the other company and the Value Giant name was removed for the existing stores. Early photos of a Payless Drug Store under the ownership of L.J. Skaggs are currently on display at the Albany Regional Museum in Albany, Oregon . The downtown location at 2nd and Broadalbin Streets was later relocated to Santiam Highway during the 1960s. Osco Drug traces its history back to 1915 by S.M. Skaggs in American Falls, Idaho as
208-888: The main successor to Skaggs, and despite the Skaggs Companies later being bought by Albertsons, Safeway was also acquired by Albertsons, thus bringing the Skaggs history full-circle. In 1932 L.J. Skaggs opened Payless Drug Stores in Tacoma, Washington , which soon expanded across the western United States. Some stores were sold to his brother Samuel "L.S." Olnie Skaggs (then an executive at Safeway) along with some colleagues. L.J. Skaggs retained California Pay Less Stores, which became part of Thrifty PayLess , and which are now owned by Rite Aid . The remaining Pay-Less stores were renamed Skaggs Drug Stores in 1948, Skaggs Drug Centers in 1965. In 1969 Albertsons supermarkets and Skaggs Drugs partnered to create combination food and drug stores,
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256-408: Was purchased in 1999 by Albertsons . In 2006, Albertsons was broken up and many standalone Osco stores were purchased by CVS Pharmacy . The Osco name remains in place as the drug store component of Jewel-Osco and Shaw's-Osco stores. American Stores , which owned Acme Markets and Alpha Beta , was acquired in 1979 by Skaggs Drug Centers, which adopted the American Stores Company name, and relocated
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