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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 22797800, member: 19250&quot;]Over the years I work quite a few retail foot prints. In my home State as well NC, Fl, Il, Tx, Co. Va,Wv, Ga.</p><p>Just to name a few.&nbsp; The company that I worked for&nbsp; Giant Food of Landover made a name for itself in the 50 &amp; 60&#039;s that by the 70&#039;s they only made 1 cent on ever dollar spent...but out preformed the competition to the point that A&amp;P, Pantry Pride, Food Fair, Safeway, all lost their customer base.</p><p>In 1974 Giant was the first to build a super market along with IBM that was the first computer check out store in the world! </p><p>Food journals had the company on their front page for over a year...and the above food stoes I listed wanted to be Giant Food. </p><p>And we&nbsp; only had locations in Va. D.C. &amp; Md. </p><p>We out gunned companies in sales that were nation wide .</p><p>However everything always has a beginning and a end.... and when the son of our founder passed...the family was done....as it was a family business but we the employees could buy stock.</p><p>They put us up for sale and a Dutch company Royal Ahold and Stansburry from the UK&nbsp; made the purchase...as neither could buy it alone. </p><p>Standburry was bought out by Ahold....and the company began to change....big time!</p><p>They came in and put another US owned food store over us from New England.&nbsp; Shop n Stop.</p><p>Because they had more locations...not a smart move as&nbsp; they were clueless as to doing business in the mid Atlantic. </p><p>They tried to run us like they did their operations in NE.&nbsp; However were clueless as to the demographics, </p><p>And what would and wouldn&#039;t work.</p><p>Many of us left the company as we could see the writting on the wall. </p><p>Then the most ridiculous thing that anyone could do..but sell off bits and pieces of the company to increase their numbers but help take down a Giant in the industry. </p><p>We had..over 120 locations that were placed 5 miles apart keeping the competition out of our area.</p><p>We owned our own Dairy, Bakery, Floral wearhouse, our main Wearhouse, a soda pop bottling plant,</p><p>We had our own maintenance and refrigeration service,our own pest control, and many more parts that our founder wanted to give his customers the best value and service out their!</p><p>However Ahold sold off everything!&nbsp; </p><p>Not wanting to pay workers benfits and pensions.</p><p>Pat Sayjack of the wheel of Fortune&nbsp; had us make his wedding cake as well flowers for the service.</p><p>The blanket of Black Eyed Susans layed over the&nbsp; winning horse of the second jewel or the triple crown came from our florists wearhouse.</p><p>Now no longer the #1 as they had a customer base that was catered to...and now thats gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one time we had 7 meat cutters in each store...3 or more in store from 6 am to 10 pm daily. Shifts rotated to fit business needs.</p><p>Now there is 1 and they dont cut ...anything or grind beef...they merchandise on and off.</p><p>Its very sad for us old clerks and cutters to see a company many of us spent 30 plus years....be destroyed...esspecially when we built it. In 2006 I retired..with almost 40 years...and went to work for the Irish Dairy board...aka Kerry Gold.....I was done watching a Giant FALL![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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