![]() ![]() Cox had also opened a DIY store, The Economy Grocery, two years earlier. “I have put dollars and cents into many a man’s pockets,” he proclaimed in an ad. Cox gave himself a nickname: The Price Cutter. In 1920, one West Palm store labeled itself the “Cut-Rate Grocery.” Another, the Knox Grocery on South Dixie Highway, prided itself on being the “personal service” store: “If you don’t care to buy, we will smile just the same,” said a 1927 ad. ![]() They’ve been going on since the turn of the century - the 20th century. Piggly Wiggly stores flourished off-and-on for decades in South Florida, but disappeared by the 1990s.Īre grocery store price and service wars relatively new? “Buyers enjoyed the novelty of making their own selections, even to the point of opening the refrigerator and getting the quantity of butter they wanted,” the paper said. Deals abounded: Ham cost 44 cents a pound, and a large can of Carnation milk went for 13 cents. A free flower was bestowed upon each visitor. Patrons learned to pass through turnstiles and use a “checker” to purchase goods. 13 drew a crush of people, and customers had to be instructed to leave stuff they bought at other stores by an outside railing so as not to confuse them with Piggly Wiggly items. Do-it-yourself stores weren’t new, but people hadn’t seen anything of Piggly Wiggly’s scale before: “The Piggly Wiggly stores seem to be operated on the cafeteria or self serve style, a feature being the absence of clerks and the arrangement of stock in such manner that customers can make their own selections,” The Palm Beach Post reported. It was a big deal when Piggly Wiggly opened in November 1920 at 220 Clematis Street. Piggly Wiggly, the iconic Southern brand with the Porky Pig-like mascot. RELATED: Remember Ingram’s? It was once largest grocery store in the county Renamed Pioneer Grocery, it was at 207 Clematis Street, about where the Lynora’s Italian restaurant is now. According to the website of the Lake Worth Pioneers Association, the Burkhardt’s put their store on a barge and shipped it across the lake, where it became the first grocery store in the new burg of West Palm Beach on Feb. Brothers Henry and Louis Burkhardt ran it until baron Flagler decided that he didn’t want riff-raff businesses cluttering the view of guests at his Royal Poinciana Hotel. But the site of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, on what was known as Brelsford’s Point, was the original location of the Lake Worth Grocery Company in the late 1800’s. Henry Flagler’s house used to be a grocery store? Let’s grab a shopping cart and explore the history aisle: ![]() While it may be hard for newcomers to believe, there were grocery stores here before Publix, which debuted in Palm Beach County 58 years ago. The chain with roots in South Florida recently announced that it may be closing a third of its stores nationwide because of financial troubles. Over the decades, many chain grocery stores have arrived with fanfare in Palm Beach County and slowly dwindled away. ![]() However, the Dick's brand has since been scrapped entirely, and all former Dick's locations still in operation are now simply Piggly Wiggly.Editor's note: This story was originally published on March 14, 2018.Ī&P, Pantry Pride, Food Fair, Food Lion, Piggly Wiggly, Kwik Chek, Albertson’s, Grand Union. Dick's continued to operate under the Dick's name until 2006, when they were briefly rebranded as "Dick's Piggly Wiggly", featuring the Piggly Wiggly logo with a small rendition of the Dick's logo above and to the left. In 2001, Dick's was acquired by Piggly Wiggly. Each Dick's supermarket included an in-house floral shop called the Blooming Basket, and the chain had a loyalty program called Dick's Savings Club (previously Dick's Insider Savings Club). There were also Dick's supermarkets in the small Town of Lancaster, Monroe, Darlington, Dodgeville, and a number of other small towns in Southwestern Wisconsin as well as Galena, Illinois and Maquoketa, Iowa. Dick's also operated a bakery in Platteville where most of the chain's baked goods were produced. Dick's was based in Platteville, Wisconsin, where its main store was located. It is not to be confused withĭick's Sporting Goods, an unrelated and still currently operating chain of sporting goods stores.ĭick's Supermarket, also known as Brodbeck Enterprises Inc., was a regional chain of grocery stores in Southwestern Wisconsin founded by Richard Brodbeck. This article is about the US grocery store chain formerly named Dick's. ![]()
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