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Description

The headquarters for Associated Foods is located at 1850 W 2100 South in

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. The company's President and

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is Bob Obray. He replaced Neal Berube after Neal retired in December 2020. It reported over

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(equivalent to $ billion in ) in sales during fiscal year 2007 and is currently the fifty-sixth largest grocery retailer in the country by volume with 23% of its total sales coming from its corporate stores.

History

Associated Food Stores was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association along with 34 Utah retailers. Concerned with the effect that large corporate stores would have on small independent retailers, he felt the only way these small businesses could survive is if they united and faced the competition as one, therefore increasing their collective buying power. He convinced 34 stores to donate $300 (equivalent to $ in ) to help build an independent and "associated" warehouse. In 1999, Associated Food Stores purchased Utah grocery store chain Macey's. In August 2017, Macey's broke with 70-year tradition by deciding to open some of their stores on Sundays. In 2009, Associated Food Stores purchased 34

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stores in Utah from Supervalu Inc. The stores were renamed Associated Fresh Market (more commonly known as just "Fresh Market"). As of June 2017, however, only 17 of the originally purchased locations were still under the Fresh Market banner, the rest having been either closed or sold. In 2017, two Fresh Market locations in

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and Holladay were re-branded as Macey's. As of 2021, three Macey's locations have closed: the Logan (400 North), Clinton, and the Midvale/Sandy locations. In 2022, a former Fresh Market in American Fork became a Macey's.

Corporate stores

As well as supplying independent grocers, Associated Food Stores also owns several corporate stores under five different names, operating a total of 38 locations. *Macey's is their largest brand, and has 17 locations across the Wasatch Front,

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, and the Logan area. Here are the locations, all are in Utah: *

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* Logan/Providence * Ogden * Taylorsville *

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- Granger * SLC - Parleys Way * SLC - Mount Olympus * Holladay * West Jordan *

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* Lehi * Pleasant Grove * Provo * Spanish Fork * Santaquin * American Fork * Murray *Tooele *Fresh Market was created after their acquisition of most of the Albertsons locations in Utah. There are currently only two Albertsons left in Utah, which are in

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. There are currently 10 locations along the

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. This is significantly fewer than the 34 locations they originally purchased from Albertsons. Their locations *

(Deer Valley Drive) *

(Kilby Road) * Ogden * South Ogden *

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, Richfield,

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. *Dan's has 2 locations in

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. The locations are in Cottonwood Heights and SLC. Two former Salt Lake City locations have closed, one was replaced by a JoAnn, and the other was replaced by a Macey's. *Dick's Market has 2 locations in

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. They're located in Bountiful and Centerville.

Other stores

Harmons grocery store at City Creek Center

Popular stores owned and/or supplied by Associated Food Stores: * Broulim's (

, &

) * Clark's Market (

, and

) * Dan's Market (

) * Dick's Market (

) * Finley's Food Farm (

) * Fresh Market (

) *

Harmons Harmons Grocery Company, doing business as Harmons Neighborhood Grocer, is an upscale supermarket chain located within the state of Utah, United States, with 19 stores throughout the Wasatch Front and in the St. George area. Description In a ...

(

) * Kent's Market (4 locations,

) * Lee's Marketplace (7 locations

) * Lin's Market (7 locations) * Macey's (

) * Peterson's Fresh Market (Utah) * Raine's Market (

) * Reams (Utah) *Soelberg's Market (Utah) *

Ridley's Family Markets Ridley's Family Markets is a family-owned chain of grocery stores based in Jerome, Idaho, United States (but incorporated in Wyoming), with multiple locations around the Intermountain West. Description Although the company was founded in 1984 in ...

(3 locations, Utah) * Winegar's Market (Utah) * Stokes Market (Utah & Idaho)

Western Family

Associated Food Stores was a primary distributor of the popular store brand Western Family owned by

Western Family Foods Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934, by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplies independent grocery stores w ...

before being replaced by Food Club and other Topco brands. This also includes Better Buy,

Shurfine Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934, by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplies independent grocery stores w ...

, Shursavings, and Marketchoice brands.

Description

History

Corporate stores

Other stores

Western Family

References

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