URM Stores, Inc. (formerly United Retail Merchants) of

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serving independent

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s in

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. It was founded in 1921 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It is an owner of

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. It purchased Rosauers Supermarket in 2000. Its affiliated supermarkets include Family Foods, Harvest Foods,

Rosauers Rosauers Supermarkets, Inc. is a regional chain of supermarkets in the Western United States, based in Spokane, Washington. Founded in 1934 by J. Merton Rosauer, Rosauers was sold in 1984 to Spokane-based URM Stores, and it eventually grew to 22 ...

, Yoke's Fresh Market, and Super 1 Foods.

Data Breach

In the fall of 2013, URM stores suffered a large scale data breach, resulting in the theft of magnetic stripe track data from payment cards. Washington state credit unions alone reported US $687,598.48 in total losses as a result of this breach. To reduce the costs to banks resulting from future data skimming/breach attacks, beginning in October 2015 United States merchants will be liable for fraud losses if their payment systems are not enabled to accept

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cards, which are designed to prevent counterfeiting.

References

External links

U.R.M. Stores web site
{{Supermarkets of the United States American companies established in 1921 Retail companies established in 1921 Companies based in Spokane, Washington Economy of the Northwestern United States Supermarkets of the United States Retailers' cooperatives in the United States 1921 establishments in Washington (state)