Giant Food
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Giant Food is the name of two separate but related supermarket chains in the United States, as well as the name of several other unrelated chains.
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[edit] Giant Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Giant Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania was founded in 1923, and now operates stores in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Giant of Carlisle also operates a brand of supermarkets known as Martin's. It is now part of Ahold.
[edit] Giant Food of Landover, Maryland
Although the companies shared financiers, Giant Food Stores of Pennsylvania was independent of Giant Food Inc. of Landover, Maryland, which was founded in 1936 by N.M. Cohen and Samuel Lehrman in Washington, D.C.. It expanded to Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. It is now part of the Giant-Stop & Shop unit of Ahold.
[edit] Giant Food Markets of Broome County, New York
Giant Food Markets of Broome County, New York is a separate chain in business since 1933. It was founded by Metrie and George Akel in Binghamton, New York and was the first self-service supermarket in New York. The company currently operates twelve supermarkets in the Greater Binghamton area.
[edit] Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle is an unrelated supermarket chain in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland.
[edit] Food Giant
Food Giant is a supermarket chain owned by Houchens Industries in various southern and midwestern U.S. states. There is also a Food Giant supermarket in San Diego, California.
[edit] Giantway
Giantway, sometimes known as Giant Family Center, was a supermarket chain based in Bay City, Michigan. The chain had locations throughout most of northern Michigan; all of these stores closed by 1992.
[edit] Giant Open Air
Giant Open Air was a supermarket chain based in Norfolk, Virginia.
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