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Piggly Wiggly is a wide chain of supermarket in the United States and operates as Piggly Wiggly, LLC. It is a privately owned company that mainly serves to the Southern and Midwestern regions in the country. The company was the first in the industry to provide checkout stands and profit margin retailing services. Piggly Wiggly, LLC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of C&S Wholesale Grocers, a food and grocery items distributor based in Massachusetts. The corporate office of the company is situated in Keene, New Hampshire.
Piggly Wiggly History
An American grocer, Clarence Saunders, laid the foundation of the company on 6th of September 1916. The first Piggly Wiggly store was opened at the 79 Jefferson Avenue in the Memphis city as self-service grocery store. The company was acquired by Saunders in 1917 and renamed it as Piggly Wiggly Corporation. The company expanded its business and opens various stores throughout the nation. In the year 2003, the current owner, C&S Wholesale Grocers purchased the assets of the company.
Piggly Wiggly Services
The company provides various services such as checkout stands, sanitary food handling, feature a full line of nationally advertised brands, put employees in uniforms for cleaner, design and use patented fixtures, franchise independent grocers and much more.
Operations
Piggly Wiggly serves to the customers through a wide network of over 600 independent stores operates in smaller cities and town of more than 17 U.S. states including Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia. The company also offers promotional items, marketing programs and support services to the retailers. In addition, Piggly Wiggly, LLC, franchises its business to independent grocery retailers and sells the Piggly Wiggly merchandise such as apparel and novelties online.