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Growth

In March 1955 Hills Supermarkets leased in the Pine Oaks Shopping Center at Boundary Avenue in North Massapequa, New York. The following month Hills signed a fifteen-year lease for a store to be located at the Hub Shopping Center, approximately one mile north of

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. In October 1961 Hills operated 23 stores with plans to open 7 more and expand an 8th within the next twelve months. Each planned store was to be except for one. The exception was a store in the

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Shopping Center in Huntington, New York, which measured 29,000 square feet. By December 1972, the Hills chain had 75 locations.

Demise of store chain

In the two years prior to November 1976, Pueblo International, Inc., had closed 29 Hills stores as well as a distribution center in

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. The indebted 43 units of Hills Supermarkets sold for a sum of approximately $7 million in 1977, to

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. Food Fair filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 1978, and 42 Hills locations were closed shortly thereafter. ("Since its bankruptcy petition, the company has closed 42 Hills Supermarkets...")

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hill's Supermarkets Companies based in New York (state) Defunct supermarkets of the United States