Giant Food (other)
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 * Food Giant (other) * Giant Hypermarket * Giant Markets, a former grocery store chain that was acquired by Weis Markets in August 2009 * Giant Open Air Giant Open Air Market was a Norfolk, Virginia-based supermarket chain. Its trademark stores were open 24 hours a day, and the entrance was framed with an arch which rose to over 30 feet, anchored in concrete. The chain grew to include 26 full-line ...

Giant Food (Landover)
Giant Food of Maryland, LLC, also known as Giant, is an American supermarket chain with 169 stores and 159 full service pharmacies located in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.https://stores.giantfood.com/ , giantfood.com It is headquartered in Landover, Maryland, an unincorporated area of Prince George's County, Maryland. Etymology Giant is often known as Giant-Landover to avoid confusion with its sibling company: The Giant Company, sometimes referred to as Giant-Carlisle. History 1930s Giant was founded in 1936 by Nehemiah Meir "N.M." Cohen and Samuel Lehrman. The first store was at Georgia Avenue NW and Park Road NW in the District of Columbia. 1940s 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. 1950s Between 1950 and 1952, Giant added five new stores, joining in the general expansion of t ...
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Giant Food Stores
The Giant Company (formerly known as Giant Food Stores) is an American regional supermarket chain that operates stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia and provides online shopping and delivery to New Jersey through Giant Direct. The chain operates full-scale supermarkets under the Giant and Martin's banners along with small-scale urban stores under the Giant Heirloom Market banner. Giant is a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize, which also owns similarly-named Giant Food of Landover, Maryland, often known as Giant-Landover; to distinguish from that chain, whose stores also operate under the Giant banner (albeit with a different logo), The Giant Company is often referred to as Giant-Carlisle or Giant/Martin's. A significant difference between the two chains is that Giant-Landover (of more urban Central Maryland) is unionized while Giant-Carlisle (of South-Central Pennsylvania) is non-union, with the exception of stores in Lewistown and Burnham, Pennsylvani ...
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Food Giant (other)
Food Giant may refer to: * Food Giant (UK retailer), a defunct supermarket chain owned by Somerfield * Food Giant (Missouri retailer), an American chain owned by Houchens Industries See also * Giant Food (other) 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 * Food Giant (other) * ...

Giant Hypermarket
GCH Retail (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (doing business as Giant Hypermarket) is a hypermarket and retailer chain now mainly in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Cambodia, and formerly Indonesia and Vietnam. In 2016, Giant was the largest supermarket chain in Malaysia. History Giant was founded in 1944 as a small grocery store in Kuala Lumpur and expanded with the opening of the Teng Minimarket Centre (TMC) in Bangsar in 1974. In 1999, Dairy Farm International Holdings bought a 90% interest in the chain, with the Teng family retaining the balance. By 2003, the holding company for the chain had changed its name to Dairy Farm Giant Retail Sdn Bhd, and the chain had eight Giant hypermarkets and 10 supermarkets as well as three Cold Storage supermarkets. Today, the company operates as a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited and the name was changed to GCH Retail (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. GCH Retail is 30%-owned by Syarikat Pesaka Antah Sdn Bhd — a company controlled by the Ne ...
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Giant Markets
Giant Markets, also known as Giant Food Markets, was a supermarket chain based in Binghamton, New York. Founded in 1933 by Metrie and George Akel, it was the first self-service supermarket in New York. The company eventually employed over 1,000 employees and operated twelve supermarkets in the Greater Binghamton area. Giant sold their franchise to Weis Markets in August 2009. Buy out On Thursday, May 21, 2009, Giant Markets was bought by Weis Markets. According to notices received by Giant associates, as of August 23, 2009 their employment ended at Giant Markets, and most of the 1,100 employees were expected to have jobs at Weis. However, many workers were laid off by Weis Markets. On Wednesday, August 12, 2009, Giant Markets announced that it was closing its store at 56 Main Street in Binghamton effective Saturday, August 15 at 6:00pm, one week prior to the takeover date. All associates at that store were transferred to other Giant Markets locations. The store closure is a decis ...
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