This is a list of notable grocers. A

grocer A grocery store ( AE), grocery shop ( BE) or simply grocery is a store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, a ...

is a purveyor or bulk seller of

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Grocers

American

Joe Albertson Joseph Albert Albertson (October 17, 1906 – January 20, 1993) was an American businessman, the founder of the Albertsons chain of grocery stores. Early life Born in Yukon, Oklahoma Territory, Albertson was one of four sons born to Rhoda and Ea ...

* John Buttencourt Avila * Joseph Azzolina *

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 *

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 Instit ...

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, an ...

* Bill Davila * Demoulas Brothers * Walter Deubener * Reggie Dupre * Frank Esposito (politician) * Harvey Fitch *

Jean Fugett Jean Schloss Fugett, Jr. (born December 16, 1951) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. He played college football at Amherst College. Early years Born and raise ...

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 *

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 suc ...

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 D ...

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

* Leo Kahn (entrepreneur) * Edwin O. Keeler * Bernard Kroger * Reginald Lewis * John Lovell (Los Angeles grocer) *

Fred G. Meyer Fred G. Meyer (February 21, 1886 – September 2, 1978)"Fred Meyer, Retail Empire Builder, Dies at 92" (September 3, 1978). '' The Sunday Oregonian'', p. 1. was an American businessman who founded the Oregon-based Fred Meyer store chain, wh ...

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 ...

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 he ...

* 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 Walter Polakowski (January 18, 1888 – November 13, 1966) was an American upholsterer, trade union activist, and small business owner from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served as a Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin St ...

* George Ralphs *

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 fo ...

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 ...

* John C. F. Slayton * Thomas G. Stemberg * George W. Stockwell * Thomas Szewczykowski * Vivien Twidwell * Vaccaro brothers *

Charles Von der Ahe Charles Theodore Von der Ahe (August 29, 1882 – June 4, 1973) was a Danish-American businessman, best known as an early innovator in the grocery business in Southern California, and founder of Vons supermarket chain in Southern California along ...

Wilfred Von der Ahe Wilfred Luer Von der Ahe (May 9, 1910 – November 20, 1998) was a German American entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the Vons supermarket chain in Southern California. Personal life and family Von der Ahe's parents were Charles T. ...

* Cas Walker * 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 Samuel Budgett (27 July 1794 – 29 April 1851) was an English merchant. Rising from humble origins, Budgett built up a wholesale grocery business called H.H. & S. Budgett, based in Kingswood Bristol, covering a large area of Southern and We ...

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 *

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 ...

* William McKillop *

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 James Sainsbury *

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

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 King ...

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

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. H ...

Frank H. Sobey Frank H. Sobey, Order of Canada, 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 ...

* Sam Steinberg

Irish

* Packy McGarty * Feargal Quinn

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 fictiona ...

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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