URM Stores

URM Stores

Formerly	United Retail Merchants
Company type	Retailers' cooperative
Founded	1921;104 years ago (1921) in Spokane, Washington, United States [1]
Headquarters	7511 N Freya St, Spokane, Washington , United States
Areas served	Washington Idaho Oregon Montana
Key people	Ray Sprinkle (President & CEO)
Products	Western Family Foods Food Club
Members	Rosauers Yoke's Fresh Market Super 1 Foods Harvest Foods
Number of employees	2,755
Divisions	Rosauers Super 1 Foods Huckleberry's Natural Market
Website	urmstores.com/

URM Stores, Inc. (formerly United Retail Merchants) of Spokane, Washington is an American retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. It was founded in 1921 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It used to be an owner of Western Family Foods until 2018, when Western Family products were replaced by Topco brands which include Food Club, Crav'n Flavor, Top Care, Simply Done, Culinary Tours, Wide Awake Coffee Co., That's Smart, Tippy Toes, Paws Happy Life, Pure Harmony and CharKing. It purchased Rosauers Supermarket in 2000.

Its affiliated supermarkets include Family Foods, Harvest Foods, Rosauers , Yoke's Fresh Market , and Super 1 Foods.

History

URM Stores was founded as United Retail Merchants as a co-op of five stores in 1921. ^[2] It became a distributor of Western Family Foods from 1968 to 2016. ^[2]

References

1. "URM Stores History". URM Stores. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
2. "Then and Now: URM Stores". The Spokesman-Review. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2024.

External links

• U.R.M. Stores web site