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WADES FOODS (Virginia)

1925 - Haden and Elinor Wade founded Wades Foods in Alum Ridge, VA.
2008 - The family-owned company operates 4 supermarkets in Virginia.

WALTS FOOD CENTERS (Illinois)

1937 - Walt's was founded as a fruit and vegetable stand in Illinois.
2008 - Walts Food Centers operated 5 supermarkets in IL and IN.

WAYFIELD FOODS (Georgia)

1982 - Ron Edenfield and Ralph Calloway founded Wayfield Foods in Georgia.
1989 - Ralph Calloway sold his interest in Wayfield Foods to Edenfield.
2008 - Wayfield Foods operates 12 supermarkets in the Atlanta area.

WEGMAN'S
Bilt-Rite Chase Pitkin

1916 - John Wegman opens the Rochester Fruit & Vegetable Company. He is joined by his brother Walter a year later.
1921 - The brothers purchase the Seel Grocery Co. and expand operations to include general groceries and bakery operations.
1930 - Wegmans opens a 20,000 square-foot Clinton Avenue (Rochester, N.Y.) "showplace" store with cafeteria seating for 300.
1949 - Stores are converted stores to self-service format.
1972 - Wegmans opens its first in-store pharmacy in Rochester, NY.
1974 - Bilt-Rite Chase-Pitkin Inc., a building and garden supply retailer, is acquired by Wegmans.
1974 - Wegmans new store in East Rochester, NY is the first in the country to use laser scanning of UPC bar codes.
1993 - Wegmans ventures outside New York when it opens a store in Erie, PA.
1999 - Wegmans ventures into New Jersey when it opens a store in West Windson.
2004 - Wegmans opens its first store in Virginia.
2005 - Wegmans opens its first store in Maryland. The company operates 69 stores.
2005 - Wegmans closes its Bilt-Rite Chase-Pitkin building supply chain.

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WEIS MARKETS (Pennsylvania)
King's ~ Scot's Lo-Cost ~ Mr. Z's ~ SuperPetz

1912 - Weis Pure Foods was founded in Sunbury, PA by Harry and Sigmund Weis.
1915 - The Weis brothers open a 2nd store in Harrisburg, PA.
1933 - The company has 115 stores in 15 Central Pennsylvania counties.
1938 - The company closed several small corner stores are replaced them with self-service Weis Super Markets.
1955 - The company operated 35 self-service supermarkets.
1967 - Weis Markets acquired the 6-store Albany Public Markets chain in New York.
1991 - SuperPetz pet stores is founded in Dayton, OH.
2000 - Weis Markets expanded into New Jersey with a store in Flanders only to close it 2 years later.
2006 - The company exited the Maryland market and closed its stores there.
2008 - Weis operates 157 stores in PA, MD, NJ, NY and WV.

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WESTERN SUPERMARKETS (Alabama)

2008 - Western Supermarkets operates 6 supermarkets under the Western Supermarkets and Food$mart by Western banners.

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WETTERAU (Missouri)

1868 - George Wetterau worked at J.F. Lauman and Company, a wholesale grocer in St. Louis, MO.
1869 - J. F. Lauman retired and Wetterau to assume the leadership of the firm. Frederick Goebel to invested in the company.
           The company's name was changed to Goebel & Wetterau Grocery Company.
1899 - The company changed its name to G. H. Wetterau & Sons Grocery Company.
1936 - The company was renamed Wetterau Grocery Company.
1938 - Wetterau acquired St. Louis-based food wholesaler Niese & Coast Products Company.
1961 - The company became publicly traded and changed its name to Wetterau Foods Incorporated.
1963 - Total sales passed $100 million and Bloomington, MO-based food wholesaler John R. Figg Inc. was acquired.
1969 - Wetterau acquired Charleston-based food wholesaler Thomas & Howard Company.
1969 - The company acquired New England-based food wholesaler Holbrook Grocery Company.
1972 - Wetterau established a nonfood concern in South Carolina to supply local Red & White stores.
1973 - The company changed its name to Wetterau, Inc. and acquired Kentucky-based J. Zinmeister Company of Kentucky,
          which supplied 80 IGA supermarkets in KY, TN and IN.
1979 - Wetterau sales reach $ 4 billion.
1980 - Miliken, Tomlinson Company was acquired by Wetterau.
1981 - Wetterau acquired Fox Grocery Company.
1981 - Empire Inc. launched an unsuccessful hostile takeover of Wetterau.
1982 - Wetterau entered the retail supermarket business for the first time when it acquired the 13 store, MO-based
          Shop 'n Save chain.
1983 - Wetterau acquired the 31 store, Pennsylvania-based Laneco, Inc.
1984 - Wetterau bought Milgram Food Stores, Inc., whose 36 retail stores Wetterau sold, keeping Milgram's warehouse and
         dairy businesses.
1984 - Wetterau formed Foodland Distributors in a joint venture with the Kroger Company.
1985 - Wetterau acquired food wholesaler Creasy Company Inc. in Washington, DC; Cressey Dockham & Company in
          New England; and food service and convenience store company Amerimark Inc.
1987 - Wetterau became an international company when it acquired USCP-WESCO Inc., a company that supplied store owners
          in 13 western states as well as Mexico and Asia.
1988 - Wetterau acquired both the Moran Group Inc., the parent company of Save-A-Lot, and Roger Williams Foods.
1992 - SuperValu acquired Wetterau.