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Giant Eagle, Inc. (Western Pennsylvania English) and stylized as giant eagle) is an American supermarket chain with stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland. The company was founded in 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and incorporated on August 31, 1931. Supermarket News ranked Giant Eagle 21st on the "Top 75 North American Food Retailers" based on sales of $11 billion.[1]

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  1. 111 relations: Ace Hardware, Akron, Ohio, Aldi, Automated retail, Bank, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Bexley, Ohio, Big Bear Stores, Bissell, Bottom Dollar Food, Brooklyn, Ohio, Carmel, Indiana, Chair (officer), Chief executive officer, Citizens Financial Group, Cleveland, Coffeehouse, Coinstar, Columbus, Ohio, Convenience store, County Market, Cumberland, Maryland, De facto, Dublin, Ohio, Eastlake, Ohio, Economy, Pennsylvania, Embezzlement, Erie, Pennsylvania, Fiscal year, FoodLand, Forbes, Franchising, Frederick, Maryland, German Village, GetGo, Great Depression, Groveport, Ohio, Hagerstown, Maryland, Happy Returns (company), Harmar Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Huntington Bancshares, Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Indianapolis, Influenza, Jay Bell, Jeff King (baseball), Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Kent, Ohio, Kroger, ... Expand index (61 more) »

  2. 1931 establishments in Pennsylvania
  3. American companies established in 1931
  4. Economy of the Eastern United States
  5. Retail companies established in 1931

Ace Hardware

Ace Hardware Corporation is an American hardware retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States.

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Akron, Ohio

Akron is a city in and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, United States.

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Aldi

Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 12,000 stores in 18 countries. Giant Eagle and Aldi are supermarkets of the United States.

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Automated retail

Automated retail is the category of self-service, standalone kiosks that operate as fully automatic retail stores through the use of software integrations to replace the traditional retail services inside in a traditional retail store.

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Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans.

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Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

Bethel Park (officially the Municipality of Bethel Park) is a borough with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Bexley, Ohio

Bexley is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States.

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Big Bear Stores

Big Bear Stores was an American regional supermarket chain operating in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004.

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Bissell

Bissell Inc., also known as Bissell Homecare, is an American privately owned vacuum cleaner and floor care product manufacturing corporation headquartered in Walker, Michigan in Greater Grand Rapids.

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Bottom Dollar Food

Bottom Dollar Food is a defunct American soft-discount grocery chain. Giant Eagle and Bottom Dollar Food are economy of the Eastern United States and supermarkets of the United States.

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Brooklyn, Ohio

Brooklyn is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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Carmel, Indiana

Carmel is a suburban city in Hamilton County, Indiana, United States, immediately north of Indianapolis.

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Chair (officer)

The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Citizens Financial Group

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is an American bank holding company, headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Coffeehouse

A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino.

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Coinstar

Coinstar, LLC (formerly Outerwall, Inc.) is an American company operating coin-cashing machines.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Convenience store

A convenience store, convenience shop, bodega, corner store or corner shop is a small retail store that stocks a range of everyday items such as tea, coffee, groceries, fruits, vegetables, snacks, confectionery, soft drinks, ice creams, tobacco products, lottery tickets, over-the-counter drugs, toiletries, newspapers and magazines.

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County Market

County Market is a supermarket chain primarily operating in the Midwestern United States. Giant Eagle and County Market are supermarkets of the United States.

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Cumberland, Maryland

Cumberland is a city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland, United States.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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Dublin, Ohio

Dublin is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Eastlake, Ohio

Eastlake is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States.

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Economy, Pennsylvania

Economy is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Embezzlement

Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French besillier ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) is a term commonly used for a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer.

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Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Fiscal year

A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes.

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FoodLand

"FoodLand" is a regional American supermarket chain based in New Stanton, Pennsylvania. Giant Eagle and FoodLand are supermarkets of the United States.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Franchising

Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organization as a strategy for business expansion.

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Frederick, Maryland

Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County, Maryland, United States.

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German Village

German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just south of the city's downtown.

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GetGo

GetGo, also known as GetGo Cafe & Market, is a convenience store chain owned and operated by Giant Eagle. Giant Eagle and GetGo are economy of the Eastern United States and privately held companies based in Pennsylvania.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Groveport, Ohio

Groveport is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States.

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Hagerstown, Maryland

Hagerstown is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Maryland, United States.

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Happy Returns (company)

Happy Returns is a software and:reverse logistics company that works with online merchants to handle product returns.

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Harmar Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Harmar Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is an American bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indiana, Pennsylvania

Indiana is a borough in and the county seat of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Influenza

Influenza, commonly known as "the flu" or just "flu", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses.

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Jay Bell

Jay Stuart Bell (born December 11, 1965) is an American former Major League Baseball shortstop and former manager of the Rocket City Trash Pandas of the Southern League.

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Jeff King (baseball)

Jeffrey Wayne King (born December 26, 1964) is an American former professional baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals.

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Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Kent, Ohio

Kent is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the largest city in Portage County.

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Kroger

The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retail company that operates (either directly or through its subsidiaries) supermarkets and multi-department stores throughout the United States. Giant Eagle and Kroger are supermarkets of the United States.

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Lancaster, Ohio

Lancaster is a city in and the county seat of Fairfield County, Ohio, in the south-central part of the state.

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Lawson (store)

is a convenience store franchise chain in Japan.

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Long-term experiment

A long-term experiment is an experimental procedure that runs through a long period of time, in order to test a hypothesis or observe a phenomenon that takes place at an extremely slow rate.

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Loophole

A loophole is an ambiguity or inadequacy in a system, such as a law or security, which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the purpose, implied or explicitly stated, of the system.

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Lottery

A lottery (or lotto) is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize.

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Loyalty program

A loyalty program or a rewards program is a marketing strategy designed to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of one or more businesses associated with the program.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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McCandless, Pennsylvania

McCandless is a township with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Mentor, Ohio

Mentor is the largest city in Lake County, Ohio, United States.

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Michael I. Monus

Michael I. "Mickey" Monus (born 1947) is the former president of Phar-Mor, Inc., founder of the World Basketball League and was an original owner of the Colorado Rockies, a Major League Baseball expansion team.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

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Morgantown, West Virginia

Morgantown is a city in and the county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River.

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Murrysville, Pennsylvania

Murrysville is a home rule municipality in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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New Albany, Ohio

New Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, located northeast of the state capital of Columbus.

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No frills

A no-frills or no frills service or product is one for which the non-essential features have been removed to keep the price low.

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Northeast Ohio

Northeast Ohio is a geographic and cultural region that comprises the northeastern counties of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Northern Lights Shopping Center is a strip mall located in Baden, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh.

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O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania

O'Hara Township is a township with home rule statusPennsylvania Code in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Penn Traffic

The Penn Traffic Company was a food service company founded in 1854 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Peters Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania

Peters Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Phar-Mor

Phar-Mor (stylized as) was a United States chain of discount drug stores, based in Youngstown, Ohio, and founded by Michael "Mickey" Monus and David Shapira in 1982.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Pittsburgh Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Primo Water

Primo Water Corporation (formerly Cott Corporation) is an American-Canadian water company offering multi-gallon bottled water, water dispensers, self-service refill water machines, and water filtration appliances.

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Ravenna, Ohio

Ravenna is a city in and the county seat of Portage County, Ohio, United States.

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Redbox

Redbox Automated Retail, LLC is an American video on-demand streaming and video rental company that specialized in DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD rentals and purchases and formerly video games via automated retail kiosks and TVOD, AVOD, and FAST services via its website, Android and iOS apps, and many consumer electronic devices.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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Rochester, Pennsylvania

Rochester is a borough in central Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, at the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio rivers.

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Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Ross Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Save-A-Lot

Save A Lot Food Stores Ltd. is an American discount supermarket chain store headquartered in St. Ann, Missouri, in Greater St. Louis. It has about 900 independently owned and operated stores across 32 states in the United States with over $4 billion in annual sales. Stores carry most grocery products, with an assortment of fresh, canned and frozen produce, meat, meal products, household items and everyday groceries. Giant Eagle and Save-A-Lot are supermarkets of the United States.

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Shadyside (Pittsburgh)

Shadyside is a neighborhood in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Sheetz

Sheetz, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores and coffee shops owned by the Sheetz family. Giant Eagle and Sheetz are economy of the Eastern United States and privately held companies based in Pennsylvania.

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Shop 'n Save (Pittsburgh)

Shop 'n Save Supermarkets (stylized as SHOP 'N SAVE) is a discount grocery store headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Giant Eagle and Shop 'n Save (Pittsburgh) are supermarkets of the United States.

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Somerset, Pennsylvania

Somerset is a borough in and the county seat of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Speedway (store)

Speedway is an American convenience store and fuel station chain headquartered in Enon, Ohio, with locations primarily in the Midwest and the East Coast regions of the United States (however there are many located in the southwestern US) wholly owned and operated by 7-Eleven.

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Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Store-within-a-store

A store-within-a-store, also referred to as store-in-store (North America) or shop-in-shop (U.K. et al.), refers to a space within a larger retail store, designated for use by a specific brand to feature its products, clearly branded with signs and other branding elements like color, materials, layout, etc.

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Supermarket

A supermarket is a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food, beverages and household products, organized into sections.

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Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an American ticket sales and distribution company based in Beverly Hills, California with operations in many countries around the world.

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Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States.

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Topco

Topco Associates LLC is the largest American retail food GPO (Group Purchasing Organization) and the sixth largest private company in Illinois. Giant Eagle and Topco are supermarkets of the United States.

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Tops Friendly Markets

Tops Friendly Markets is an American supermarket chain based in Amherst, New York, that operates stores in Upstate New York, Vermont, and Northern Pennsylvania. Giant Eagle and Tops Friendly Markets are supermarkets of the United States.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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United Food and Commercial Workers

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and health care.

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United Natural Foods

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) is a Providence, Rhode Island–based natural and organic food company.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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Video rental shop

A video rental shop/store is a physical retail business that rents home videos such as movies, prerecorded TV shows, video game discs and other media content.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Giant Eagle and Walmart are supermarkets of the United States.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Western Pennsylvania English

Western Pennsylvania English, known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly as Pittsburghese, is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania, centered on the city of Pittsburgh, but potentially appearing in some speakers as far north as Erie County, as far west as Youngstown, Ohio, and as far south as Clarksburg, West Virginia.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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WPXI

WPXI (channel 11) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Cox Media Group.

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Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown is a city in and the county seat of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States.

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Zoster vaccine

A zoster vaccine is a vaccine that reduces the incidence of herpes zoster (shingles), a disease caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus, which is also responsible for chickenpox.

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7-Eleven

7-Eleven, Inc. is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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See also

1931 establishments in Pennsylvania

American companies established in 1931

Economy of the Eastern United States

Retail companies established in 1931

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Eagle

Also known as Giant Eagle Express, Giant Eagle, Inc., Giant Iggle, Market District, Valu King.

, Lancaster, Ohio, Lawson (store), Long-term experiment, Loophole, Lottery, Loyalty program, Maryland, McCandless, Pennsylvania, Mentor, Ohio, Michael I. Monus, Monopoly, Morgantown, West Virginia, Murrysville, Pennsylvania, New Albany, Ohio, No frills, Northeast Ohio, Northern Lights Shopping Center, O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Penn Traffic, Pennsylvania, Peters Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Phar-Mor, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pneumonia, Primo Water, Privately held company, Ravenna, Ohio, Redbox, Retail, Rochester, Pennsylvania, Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Save-A-Lot, Shadyside (Pittsburgh), Sheetz, Shop 'n Save (Pittsburgh), Somerset, Pennsylvania, Speedway (store), Starbucks, Store-within-a-store, Supermarket, Ticketmaster, Toledo, Ohio, Topco, Tops Friendly Markets, Trade union, United Food and Commercial Workers, United Natural Foods, United States, United States dollar, Video rental shop, Walmart, West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania English, World War I, WPXI, Youngstown, Ohio, Zoster vaccine, 7-Eleven.