This is a list of notable grocers. A

grocer A grocery store (American English, AE), grocery shop (British English, BE) or simply grocery is a store that primarily retails a general range of food Product (business), products, which may be Fresh food, fresh or Food preservation, packaged ...

is a purveyor or bulk seller of

food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is inge ...

Grocers

American

Joe Albertson Joseph Albert Albertson (October 17, 1906 – January 20, 1993) was an American businessman, the founder of the Albertsons (SuperValu), Albertsons chain of grocery stores. Early life Born in Yukon, Oklahoma, Yukon, Oklahoma Territory, Albertson ...

* John Buttencourt Avila *

Joseph Azzolina Joseph Azzolina (January 26, 1926 – April 15, 2010) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey Legislature for a total of 24 years. 22 of these years he served in the New Jersey General Assembly while he served t ...

James Butler (grocer) James Butler (1855 – February 20, 1934) was an American businessman from New York and prominent owner of racehorses and racetracks. With his cousin, Mother Marie Joseph Butler, he founded Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York in memory of hi ...

Charles Butt Charles Clarence Butt (born February 3, 1938) is an American heir and billionaire. He inherited his family's San Antonio–based H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971. The privately held company has more than 300 stores and $31 billion in sales, acc ...

* Peter P. Carr *

Joe Coulombe Joseph Hardin Coulombe (June 3, 1930 – February 28, 2020) was an American entrepreneur. He founded the grocery store chain Trader Joe's in 1967 and ran it until his retirement in 1988.

Michael J. Cullen Michael J. Cullen (1884–1936) was an American entrepreneur and salesman known as the founder of the King Kullen grocery store chain, widely considered to be the first supermarket founded in America. He is recognized by the Smithsonian Instituti ...

Joe Cury Joseph H. Cury (born November 6, 1928 in Allentown, Pennsylvania – January 11, 1977) was the owner of the Mandarin Super Market and a resident of Mandarin, Florida. He was known as the founder of POWER, an advocacy group on utility rates, and ...

* Bill Davila *

Demoulas Brothers The Demoulas family is a Greek-American family that controls DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc., the company that operates the Market Basket chain of supermarkets. Beginning in 1990, two sides of the Demoulas family fought for control of DeMoulas Super ...

Walter Deubener Walter H. Deubener (1887–1980) was a grocer from St. Paul, Minnesota who in 1912 invented the handled paper grocery bag. Following his death, his estate became Camp Courage (Minnesota), Camp Courage North. The annual ''Deubener Award'', given out ...

* Reggie Dupre *

Frank Esposito (politician) Frank J. Esposito (March 24, 1928 – January 9, 2013) was the mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut for seven terms, from 1987 to 2001, the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. He also served four terms from 1981 to 1987 in the Connecticut Hous ...

Harvey Fitch Harvey Fitch (May 27, 1816 – August 6, 1890) was Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut from 1868 to 1869. He was born in Wilton, Connecticut Wilton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, ...

* Jean Fugett *

Joseph E. Grosberg Joseph E. Grosberg (December 27, 1883 – July 25, 1970) was an American businessman in the supermarket and wholesale foods industries. He was a founder and the president of Central Markets, a chain of grocery stores in upstate New York that es ...

* Winfield S. Hanford *

Clinton L. Hare Clinton Larue Hare (November 7, 1864 – June 4, 1909) was a manager, organizer, and coach of American football, and a lawyer and grocer. He served as the head football coach at Butler University for three seasons (1887, 1889, and 1890), at Purdue ...

George Huntington Hartford George Huntington Hartford (September 5, 1833 – August 29, 1917) headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's ...

George Ludlum Hartford George Ludlum Hartford (November 7, 1864 – September 23, 1957) was the longtime chairman and treasurer of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), serving in those positions for over 40 years from 1916 until his death. He was the succ ...

John Augustine Hartford John Augustine Hartford (February 10, 1872 – September 20, 1951) was the longtime President of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ("A&P"), serving in that position for 35 years from 1916 until his death. His father, George Huntington H ...

Steve Hodges Steve Hodges (born February 2, 1949) is an American politician, teacher, and former small business owner from the state of Missouri. Hodges has served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives since being elected in November 2006. A De ...

George W. Jenkins George Washington Jenkins Jr. (September 29, 1907 – April 8, 1996) was an American businessman, who founded Publix, Publix Super Markets. As of 2016, the employee-owned, privately held corporation included 1,100 stores in the Southeastern Unite ...

Leo Kahn (entrepreneur) Leo Kahn (December 31, 1916 – May 11, 2011) was an American reporter and businessman. He is credited as the co-founder of Staples Inc. Kahn is also considered a pioneer of the natural and health food supermarket industry, founding the Fresh Fie ...

* Edwin O. Keeler *

Bernard Kroger Bernard Heinrich "Henry" Kroger (January 24, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets. Kroger was a pioneering grocery innovator who introduced self-service shopping to the public in 1895. ...

Reginald Lewis Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was one of the richest black American men in the 1980s, and the first black American to build a billion-dollar company, TLC Beatrice International Holdings ...

John Lovell (Los Angeles grocer) John Lovell (c. 1851 – 1913) was a 19th-century businessman in Los Angeles, California, the owner of a grocery store and other property and a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city. He suffered injuries to his ...

* Fred G. Meyer *

Stephen P. Mugar Stephen P. Mugar (March 5, 1901 – October 16, 1982) was the founder of the Star Market chain of supermarkets in New England. He was also a philanthropist and the most prominent member of the Mugar family of Greater Boston. Early life Mugar was b ...

Jack Muratori Jack Muratori (1929 – May 20, 2001) was a Republican Party lawmaker from Queens, New York who represented a Queens, At-Large New York City Council district from 1974 to 1983. He also served as Minority Leader in 1983. After leaving politics h ...

* Silas Peirce *

Produce Pete Peter Napolitano (born February 23, 1945) better known by stage name Produce Pete (sometimes referred to as Pete Your Produce Pal), is an American grocer, chef, and celebrity spokesperson who is perhaps best known for his weekly fruit and vegeta ...

John E. Peterson John E. Peterson (born December 25, 1938) is an American Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. From 1997 to 2009, he represented the state's mainly rural and largely Republican 5th Congressional district in the U.S. Hous ...

S.S. Pierce Samuel Stillman Pierce (1807–1880) was a grocer in Boston, Massachusetts, who established the S.S. Pierce company in 1831. Biography Samuel Stillman Pierce was born in Cedar Grove, Dorchester, in 1807. In 1836, he married Ellen Maria Wallis. ...

* Walter Polakowski *

George Ralphs George Albert Ralphs (September 23, 1850 – June 21, 1914) was an American businessman. He founded the Ralphs supermarket chain in Southern California, with the help of his brother Walter. Early life and career George Albert Ralphs was born ...

Clarence Saunders (grocer) Clarence Saunders (9 August 1881 – 14 October 1953) was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. Saunders worked f ...

Marion Barton Skaggs Marion Barton Skaggs (April 5, 1888 – May 8, 1976) was an American businessman and leading member of the Skaggs Family of retailers who expanded the predecessor of Safeway into a major supermarket chain. Career Skaggs was an advocate of the c ...

* John C. F. Slayton *

Thomas G. Stemberg Thomas George Stemberg (January 18, 1949 – October 23, 2015) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was a pioneer of the office supplies superstore industry, most notably for founding office supply retail chain Staples ...

* George W. Stockwell * Thomas Szewczykowski * Vivien Twidwell * Vaccaro brothers * Charles Von der Ahe * Wilfred Von der Ahe *

Cas Walker Orton Caswell "Cas" Walker (March 23, 1902 – September 25, 1998), was a Tennessee businessman, politician, and personality on television and radio. Walker founded a successful chain of small grocery stores that grew to include several doz ...

* George Butler Wason * David Whitton (Wisconsin politician) * Edwin Wilcox File:Silas Peirce.png, Silas Peirce was an American

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who founded the wholesale grocer Silas Peirce & Co, in Boston, Massachusetts. File:Silas Peirce business card.png, Silas Peirce's business card

British

* Samuel Budgett *

Jack Cohen (businessman) Sir John Edward Cohen (born Jacob Kohen; 6 October 1898 – 24 March 1979) was an English grocer who founded the Tesco supermarket chain. Early and private life Cohen was born in Whitechapel in the East End of London and grew up at 91 Ashfiel ...

* James Duckworth *

David atte Hacche David atte Hacche ( fl. 1377–1393) was a politician from Reading in the English county of Berkshire. Family David may possibly have originated from Hare Hatch in Wargrave, east of Reading. He became a victualler in Reading and the poll tax in ...

Thomas Lipton Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (10 May 18482 October 1931) was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, as company founder of Lipton Tea, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman who lost 5 straight America's Cup m ...

William McKillop William McKillop (1860 – 25 August 1909) was an Ayrshire-born grocer and restaurant-owner in Glasgow who became an Irish nationalist politician, serving for the last decade of his life as an Irish Parliamentary Party member of parliament (MP) f ...

William Morrison (businessman) William Murdoch Morrison (1875 – 3 August 1956) was the founder of the business which would, after his death, become the Morrisons supermarket chain. Career Brought up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, William Morrison started selling eggs and b ...

John Benjamin Sainsbury John Benjamin Sainsbury (1871 – May 23, 1956) was the eldest son of John James Sainsbury, the founder of the Sainsbury's supermarket chain, and his wife, Mary Ann Sainsbury. Early and private life John Benjamin Sainsbury was the second child of ...

John James Sainsbury John James Sainsbury (12 June 1844 – 3 January 1928) was an English grocer and founder of what is now called the Sainsbury's supermarket chain. Early and private life John James Sainsbury was born on 12 June 1844 at 5 Oakley Street, Lambe ...

Mary Ann Sainsbury Mary Ann Sainsbury (''née'' Staples; 30 June 1849 – 9 June 1927) was the wife of John James Sainsbury, the founder of the Sainsbury's supermarket chain. The supermarket chain named their official brand font 'Mary-Ann', used in-store, onl ...

Lawrence Sheriff Lawrence Sheriff (or Sheriffe) (c. 1515 or 1516 – September 1567) was a Tudor merchant and benefactor, who was notable for being grocer to Queen Elizabeth I, and for creating Rugby School through an endowment in his will. Not much is known abo ...

* John "Jack" Shield *

Richard Yarward Richard Yarward or Yearwood (1580–1632) was an English grocer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629. Yarward was a grocer of Southwark. He was elected Member of Parliament for Southwark in 1614, ...

Canadian

Henry Newell Bate Sir Henry Newell Bate (April 9, 1828 – April 7, 1917) was a wealthy Canadian industrialist and the first Chairman of the Ottawa Improvement Commission, founded in 1899 (now the National Capital Commission). Bate was knighted in 1910 by Kin ...

Pete Luckett Pete Luckett (born 1953) is a British-Canadian entrepreneur and media personality known as a culinary fruit and vegetable expert. A native of Nottingham, England, Luckett emigrated to Canada in 1979, settling in Saint John, New Brunswick. In the ...

Emilio Picariello Emilio Picariello (, ; also known as Emileo PicarielloGray 62 and Emil Picariello,Foster 83 1875Anderson 43 or 1879Brennan 51 – May 2, 1923) was an Italian-Canadian bootlegger and convicted murderer, who was hanged at Fort Saskatchewan in 1923 ...

Robert Edwy Ryerson Robert Edwy Ryerson (12 August 1865 – 12 October 1958) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Brant County, Canada West and became a grocer and merchant. Ryerson attended public school at Brantford. ...

Frank H. Sobey Frank H. Sobey, OC (May 24 1902 – December 15, 1985) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who was the primary builder of the Sobeys chain of supermarkets. Life and career Born in the farming community of Lyons Brook, Nova Scotia, ...

Sam Steinberg Samuel Steinberg, (December 25, 1905 – May 24, 1978) was a Hungarian-born Canadian businessman, investor and philanthropist. He was an immigrant to Canada who transformed the grocery store founded by his mother, Steinberg's Supermarket, into ...

Irish

* Packy McGarty *

Feargal Quinn Feargal Quinn (27 November 1936 – 24 April 2019) was an Irish businessman, politician and television personality. He founded the Superquinn supermarket chain and served as a Senator for the National University constituency from 1993 to 2016. ...

Fictional

* Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager *

Sam Drucker Sam, SAM or variants may refer to: Places * Sam, Benin * Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso * Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso * Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso * Sam, Iran * Sam, Teton County, Idaho, United States, a populated place People and fictio ...

Mr. Whipple Mr. George Whipple (also known as George the Grocer) is a fictional supermarket manager featured in television commercials, radio, and print advertisements that ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for Charmin toilet paper. Typica ...

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