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Rouses Markets
Company type Private
Industry Retail (Supermarket)
FoundedCity Produce Company
1923;101 years ago (1923)
Rouses Markets
1960;64 years ago (1960)
FoundersJ.P. Rouse (City Produce Company)
Anthony J. Rouse (Founder of Rouses Markets)
Headquarters Thibodaux, Louisiana, U.S.
Number of locations
63 [1] (2023)
Area served
 Louisiana, Alabama & Mississippi
Key people
  • Donald Rouse Sr.
  • Donny Rouse Jr.
  • Allison Rouse Royster
  • Tommy Rouse
ProductsBakery, dairy, deli, frozen foods, general grocery, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks
RevenueIncrease2.svg $500 million+
Number of employees
6,500 (2019)
Website www.rouses.com

Rouses Markets are a chain of grocery supermarkets in the U.S. states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi with more than 6,500 employees.

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History

The company had its start as the City Produce Company, founded in Thibodaux, Louisiana by J. P. Rouse in 1923, which bought produce from local farmers in the Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, as well as the French Market in New Orleans, and shipped them around the United States. [2] [3]

Interior of Rouses Market in New Orleans Central Business District, 2011. Rouses Market, Baronne Street, NOLA 2011 Interior C.JPG
Interior of Rouses Market in New Orleans Central Business District, 2011.

In 1960, Anthony Rouse Sr. (son of J. P. Rouse) and his cousin, Ciro DiMarco, opened a 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) grocery store in Houma, Louisiana.

In the 1970s, Ciro decided to exit the business and sold his portion of the business to Anthony's son, Ryan Rouse. In the late 1970s Anthony's son Tommy also joined the business. Throughout the 1970s, the company operated stores in Houma, Raceland and the Rouses’ hometown of Thibodaux. During the 1980s, the company opened more new stores in South Louisiana, in the communities of Lockport, Cut Off and Morgan City.

Rouses opened its first store in Metairie in 1995 and was then the largest independent grocer in Louisiana.

In 2003, Rouses opened a 54,000-square-foot (5,000 m2) store in Covington. That store was followed by other St. Tammany Parish locations in Mandeville in 2005 and Slidell in 2006.

In 2007, two years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the New Orleans area, Rouses acquired A&P’s Southern Division of 17 Sav-A-Center stores, effectively doubling the company in size, and giving the company its first stores in the city of New Orleans and in Mississippi. In 2008, Rouses acquired two additional stores in Mississippi. [4]

In January 2009, Rouses opened a newly constructed store in Youngsville, Louisiana, a community in the Lafayette area. This location was the first in the Acadiana region for the chain, its westernmost store, and the biggest grand opening event in company history.

In 2010, the company acquired a store in Mathews, Louisiana which was previously operated by Winn-Dixie. [5] In 2011, Rouses opened a 40,000-square-foot full service grocery store in the Central Business District of New Orleans, ending 45 years without. [6]

In 2013, Rouses expanded into Alabama by taking ownership of six Belle Foods stores in the Mobile area. [7] The first of those stores opened in Theodore, Alabama on February 9, 2014. [8]

In 2016, Rouses acquired LeBlanc's Food Stores, expanding its presence in the metro Baton Rouge area with 9 additional locations. All LeBlanc's Food Stores were rebranded as Rouses Markets. [9]

In 2021, Steve Galtier, the former head of Human Resources for Rouses, posted pictures on social media of himself and Donald Rouse Sr., his life partner and former boss, attending the pro-Trump rally in Washington D.C. just before the storming on the US Capitol Building. Although Rouse Sr. claims not to have taken part in the insurrection, many Rouses Market customers called for a boycott of their stores. [10]

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