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1931 - Peninsula Stores Ltd. (later Lucky Stores) was founded by Charles Church with the purchase of 3 grocery stores in
          California from Piggly Wiggly founder Clarence Saunders.
1956 - Lucky Stores purchased 10 Jim Dandy stores in Los Angeles, 6 Food Basket stores in San Diego and 32 Cardinal
          stores in Sacramento.
1959 - There were 117 Lucky Stores in California and Washington.
1959 - GEMCO discount department store chain is founded in Anaheim, California.
1960 - Lucky Stores purchases the GEMCO chain and added supermarkets to the GEMCO format.
          Lucky also operated a similar format in the east named MEMCO.
1966 - Lucky operated 166 supermarkets, 18 discount centers and 11 GEMCO stores.
1968 - Lucky purchased the Eagle Stores chain in TX, the May's drugstore chain in IL, IO and WI and the Tanne-Arden retail
          apparel stores.
1979 - Lucky Stores acquires Tampa, FL-based Kash 'n Karry stores (later Sweetbay).
1985 - Lucky Stores exited the Houston market and closed its 22 area Eagle Supermarkets.
1986 - Lucky Stores closes its GEMCO and MEMCO discount department store chains and sells many of the stores to
          Target Stores.
1988 - Lucky sells Tampa, FL-based Kash 'n Karry to the store's senior managers.
1988 - American Stores Company (Acme Markets) acquired Lucky Stores.
1998 - Albertsons acquires American Stores Company and Lucky stores take the Albertsons name.
2006 - Berkeley, CA-based Grocery Outlet re-opens a store with the Lucky name and logo claiming Albertsons abandoned the
          trademark by not using it. Several days later the Lucky logo reappeared on Albertsons website and the company sued
          Grocery Outlet.
2006 - Albertsons is acquired by SuperValu. (Northern California Albertsons stores are acquired by Save Mart. SuperValu
          changes some former ALbertsons stores to the Lucky name and logo. Grocery Outlet receives a temporary restraining
          order preventing any more former Albertsons stores to be renamed Lucky.
          Northern California Lucky Stores are owned and operated by Save Mart.
2007 - All 72 San Francisco Bay area Albertsons are remodeled and converted to Lucky Stores.