Skopje is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre.
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in the city of Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time. At its peak, Woolco had hundreds of stores in the US, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. While the American stores were closed in 1983, the chain remained active in Canada until it was sold in 1994 to rival Walmart, which was looking to enter the Canadian market. All of the former UK Woolco stores were sold by Kingfisher, who had bought the UK Woolworth business, to Gateway who subsequently sold them to Asda.
99 Ranch Market is a Taiwanese-American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc., which is based in Buena Park, California. 99 Ranch has 53 stores, primarily in California, with other stores in Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, Texas, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Virginia. The company also started offering shopping via its website in 2014.
Delhaize Le Lion / De Leeuw was a Belgian food retailer headquartered in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium, and operating in seven countries and on three continents. The principal activity of Delhaize Group is the operation of food supermarkets. On 24 June 2015, Delhaize reached an agreement with Ahold to merge and form a new parent company headquartered in the Netherlands: Ahold Delhaize.
A discount store or discount shop is a term that has been used over time and across different countries for a number of different retail formats, all of which sell products at prices that are in principle lower than the regular retail price.
ICA Gruppen AB (publ) is a Swedish retailer with a focus on food and health. The group also owns a bank, real estate division and a pharmacy chain.
Giant Eagle is an American supermarket chain with stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland. The company was founded in 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and incorporated on August 31, 1931. Supermarket News ranked Giant Eagle 21st on the "Top 75 North American Food Retailers" based on sales of $9.3 billion. In 2005, it was the 32nd-largest privately held company, as determined by Forbes. Based on 2005 revenue, Giant Eagle is the 49th-largest retailer in the United States. As of Summer 2014, the company had approximately $9.9 billion in annual sales. As of March 2019, Giant Eagle, Inc. had 216 supermarkets, 202 fuel station/convenience stores under the GetGo banner and 56 Ricker's fuel station/covenience stores.
Steinberg's was a large family-owned Canadian grocery store chain that mainly operated in the province of Quebec and later Ontario. In addition to its flagship supermarket chain, the company operated several subsidiaries across the country. The company went bankrupt in 1992, three years after being sold to private interests, after 75 years in business.
Migros Ticaret A.Ş. is one of the biggest chains of supermarkets in Turkey.
Maxi is a discount grocery retailer based in Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1984 by Provigo, it is a division of Loblaw Companies and the largest of Loblaws' Quebec supermarket chains. Maxi is the Quebec equivalent of No Frills, a chain of franchised discount grocery stores outside Quebec, except that Maxi stores are owned by the company. Over 7,000 people are employed at the Maxi and Maxi & Cie stores across Quebec.
Marsh Supermarkets was an American retail food chain headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with nearly 100 stores located throughout Central Indiana and parts of western Ohio. Its parent company was Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The company filed for bankruptcy on May 11, 2017, and was eventually liquidated. Topvalco, Inc., a subsidiary of Supermarket chain giant and competitor Kroger purchased 11 out of the 44 remaining stores while Ohio-based Fresh Encounter purchased another 15 stores. The unsold 18 stores were closed on or before July 8, 2017.
Delhaize Serbia or Delhaize Maxi, is a Serbian supermarket chain owned by Ahold Delhaize, with headquarters in Belgrade. Founded in 2000, the chain has around 450 stores in the region. As of 2016, it has 20.60% market share in Serbia.
The Penn Fruit Company was a regional grocery chain in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas that operated from 1927 until 1978. During the firm's history it was regarded as one of the most innovative American supermarket chains. However, the company's innovations often were copied by its bigger rivals who eventually succeeded in causing the chain's demise.
The Old Bazaar is a bazaar located in Skopje, North Macedonia, situated on the eastern bank of the Vardar River, stretching from the Stone Bridge to the Bit-Pazar and from the Skopje Fortress to the Serava river. The Old Bazaar falls primarily within the borders of Čair Municipality but a part of it is located in Centar Municipality. As one of the oldest and largest marketplaces in the Balkans, it has been Skopje's centre for trade and commerce since at least the 12th century.
Héritage was a banner of discount grocery stores owned by Provigo to market smaller supermarkets in Quebec. Launched on February 24, 1982 by Provigo's Econoprix subsidiary, the first store was on Taschereau Boulevard in Saint-Hubert.
DON Market is a chain of supermarkets in the Republic of North Macedonia. Don was founded in 2007, with its first store opening at Ohrid, Macedonia. Don now has a supermarket in Ohrid and Struga, but plans to open in other cities in North Macedonia. Don is currently the most visited supermarket in Southwest North Macedonia. It also has a chain of small shops known as Damping or Mini DON.
