Watson remembered from'visiting relatives in Louisiana back in the 1960s. They are also enjoying Piggly swag - T-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and recyclable grocery bags that prominently feature Mr. 'I think people are enjoying all of our inventory,' Ms. Newton at Piggly Wiggly have stayed at the helm of their stores. Store managers Scott Hanson at Grand Union and Kandi A. The Grand Union store still has a 'wall of value' - the items are on shelves along the first aisle near produce. Both stores are offering the 'Five for $19.99' feature of products at the meat department counter. There are some holdovers from the Tops stores. It was also a good way to reacquaint shoppers familiar with Grand Union, he said.īoth stores will sell C&S's private label, Best Yet, replacing the one that Tops sold at the stores, he said. 'We think it's a unique opportunity for folks to experience that format here,' Mr. The brand is mostly located in the South. The Scranton-based C&S owns 11 other Piggly Wiggly stores in Wisconsin. They are also in Peru, Cortlandville, Cooperstown, Norwich, Owego, Rome, Saranac Lake, Sherrill, Warrensburg and Rutland, Vt.Ĭ&S CEO Bob Palmer was in Watertown to introduce Grand Union and Piggly Wiggly to shoppers this week.

Now C&S Wholesale Grocers owns both the Watertown Piggly Wiggly and Grand Union stores, the result of a merger between Tops Friendly Markets and Price Chopper.Ĭ&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest grocery wholesaler in the country with 7,000 outlets, is operating a total of 12 former Tops stores as Grand Unions. Grand Union also had a store downtown years before that. The Great American chain purchased Grand Union stores in Alexandria Bay and Clayton in 1982 and renamed them. The Grand Union brand had a presence in the north country until the early 1980s. The Grand Union store in the Seaway Plaza on the city's north side also celebrated a grand opening on Thursday. While Piggly Wiggly made its debut in New York, a new Grand Union store on the other side of town is returning the chain to the grocery store landscape in the north country.

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