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1925 - Ginter Co.,
O'Keefe Inc. and John T. Connor Co. merge to form First National
Stores with 1,644 locations.
1960's First National makes an offer to purchase the NY-based King
Kullen supermarket chain but the Cullen family
rejected the offer.
1961 - Finast purchases 160 New York and New Jersey stores from
Safeway.
1977 - Food Circus acquires 3 Finast supermarkets in New Jersey and
operates them under the Foodtown banner.
1981 - Finast closes 14
stores in NH, ME and VT citing that they are too small to be
profitable.
1988 - Royal Ahold N.V. of the Netherlands acquires Finast Stores,
later called Finast Markets.
1993 - New York area Finast stores are converted to Royal Ahold's
Edwards Super Food Stores name.
1995 - A&P sells 8 New England stores to Edwards Super Food Stores.
1996 - Edwards Super Food Stores in New England are converted to
Ahold's Stop & Shop banner.
1996 - Ahold merges its Northeastern Ohio Finast stores with its Tops
division.
1997 - Edwards Super Food Stores in PA are merged with Ahold's Giant
(Carlisle).
1999 - All 45 merged Finast stores in Northeastern Ohio assume the
Tops name.
2000 - Edwards Super Food Stores in New York and New Jersey are
converted to the Stop & Shop banner.
Ahold
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