Giant Food

Giant Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania was founded in 1923 by David Javitch[?]. In 1970 it purchased Martins Food Markets in Hagerstown, Maryland and expanded until 1981, when it was purchased by the Dutch supermarket chain Ahold[?].

It was not related to Giant Food of Landover, Maryland[?], which was founded in 1936 by N.M. Cohen[?] and Samuel Lehrman[?] in Washington, D.C.. It expanded to Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and New Jersey. Giant food was the first to use computer-assisted checkout[?] system-wide. It also operates stores in Pennsylvania under the Super G name. It presently operates over 150 supermarkets. In the 1970s Giant experimented with Department stores[?] under the Giant name and apparel stores[?], including the Pants Corral[?]. Giant was a long-time sponsor of the high school quizbowl game It's Academic[?]. In 1998 it was purchased by Ahold[?].

And thus the two Giants were brought under one roof.

External links

• http://www.giantpa.com/ourstore/history
• http://www.giantfood.com/company_aboutgiant2.htm