Kuhn's Quality Foods

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Kuhn's Quality Foods
Type
Industry Retail (Supermarket)
Founded1967;56 years ago (1967) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
FounderJoseph Kuhn
Headquarters Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Number of locations
8 (2021)
Area served
 Greater Pittsburgh
Key people
Joe Dentici, President
Tom Dentici, Co-President
Brad Young, Stores Supervisor
Dan Sakala, Spokesperson
ProductsBakery, delicatessen, dairy, fresh meats and poultry, produce, general merchandise, frozen foods, seafood, snacks
RevenueIncrease2.svg $218.5 million (2021) [1]
Number of employees
1,288 (2021) [2]
Website kuhnsmarket.com

Kuhn's Quality Foods Markets is a family-owned chain of grocery stores located in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area of the United States.

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The Dentici family were already in the grocery business when in 1967 Joe and Tom Dentici purchased Kuhn's Market from its founder Joseph Kuhn, who owned and operated the small grocery on Perrysville Avenue since 1939.

As of August 2019, the company owns and operates eight full-service stores and employs more than 800 people in the greater Pittsburgh area. Still owned by the same family that started the business in 1967, the chain has stores in the neighborhoods of Allison Park, Banksville, Bellevue, Wilkins Twp. (Beulah), North Side (Highwood), Hopewell Twp.(Aliquippa), Ingomar (McCandless), and McKnight (Ross Twp.). [3] The company uses SuperValu as its supplier. [4] The company's slogan is "A Pittsburgh Tradition".

Expansion and Decline

Older Kuhn's logo Kuhnslogo.jpg
Older Kuhn's logo

Since acquiring the first Kuhn's Market in 1967, the chain grew to five locations by 1992. [5] In 2006, Kuhn's acquired two Shop 'n Save stores from SuperValu. [6] [7] [8] A Kuhn's store left vacant when the former Shop 'N Save stores were acquired was leased in 2009 by Big Lots, a discount retailer. [9] [10]

A tenth store was slated to open in the Hill District. Kuhn's Markets spokesman Dan Sakala declined to discuss the development, but Urban Redevelopment Authority spokeswoman in Pittsburgh, Megan Stearman said Joe Dentici, one of the owners, has cancer. Kuhn's Markets has blamed "economic" reasons as to why it has pulled out of the development. Kuhn's would have been the first grocer in 30 years to be in the region. [11] [12]

Since 2009, Kuhn's has closed locations due to continued increase in the competitive landscape. Management at a recent store closure in Moon Township, PA claimed that the chain was unable to compete with Walmart. [13]

Employee relations

Prior to 2009, none of Kuhn's markets were represented by a trade union, [14] but instead by a company-sponsored "Employee Council". Each store has a representative that discusses employee issues such as pay rates, disagreements, and the like.

A former Foodland location (Beulah) acquired in 2009 that was represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 continues to represent the employees, as required by law. [4] [15]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Company Overview – Kuhn's" . Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Company Overview – Kuhn's" . Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Kuhn's Market Locations". August 12, 2019.
  4. 1 2 Zandy Dudiak (August 7, 2008). "Kuhn's to take over Wilkins Foodland". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Retrieved November 10, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Kuhn's Market Grand Opening". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . April 30, 1992. Retrieved November 10, 2009.
  6. ↑ Schooley, Tim (January 24, 2006). "Kuhn's buys two Shop 'n Save stores". Pittsburgh Business Times. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  7. ↑ Mortimer, C.M. (January 25, 2006). "Kuhn's Quality Foods acquires two Shop 'n Save stores". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  8. ↑ "Kuhn's Quality Foods, Pittsburgh, PA, has acquired two Shop 'N Save stores from Supervalu Inc. Minneapolis. (MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS) (Brief article)". The Food Institute Report. January 30, 2006. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  9. ↑ "Big Lots to replace Kuhn's on McKnight Road". Pittsburgh Business Times. July 21, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  10. ↑ "Business Briefs". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . January 25, 2006. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2009.("Two Shop 'n Save grocery stores in Ross and Cranberry will become Kuhn's Quality Foods stores by next week.")
  11. ↑ Karamagi Rujumba (August 10, 2008). "Two grocers want to open on Hill". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Retrieved November 10, 2009.
  12. ↑ "Kuhn's gets deal for Hill grocery". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . November 14, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2009.
  13. ↑ "Moon Township Kuhn's Is Closing - Robinson, PA Patch". Robinson-Moon, PA Patch. 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
  14. ↑ "Nonunion Grocers Gain Ground in Pittsburgh Area". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . June 6, 2003. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2009.
  15. ↑ "UFCW Local 23 Will Represent Kuhn's Quality Foods Workers at Beulah Road Location". Business Wire. February 9, 2009. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved November 10, 2009.

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