Stanley Stores Stanley Stores Stanley Stores Inc. was a family-owned regional grocery store chain in the United States, with its headquarters in Bay City, Texas. The chain operated three brands. Stanley Stores was the conventional grocery store brand. The "Houston Chronicle" said that the brands Price Lo Supermarkets and Foods "4" Less were "modern, warehouse-type food stores with large sales and cut-rate prices." In 1994 Greg Hassel of the "Houston Chronicle" said that Stanley Stores was one of several "small area outfits" operating stores in the Houston area. O. B. Stanley established the chain in 1945. The first location, a drive-in grocery
American Stores drugstores in December 1984 to People's Drug, a division of "Imasco Limited". 33 Alpha Beta grocery stores in Arizona sold to ABCO Foods, 22 Alpha Beta grocery stores and support facilities in northern California were also sold. The acquisition of the Jewel Companies, Inc. consisted of the Melrose Park, Illinois based Jewel Food Stores supermarket chain, Oak Brook, Illinois based Osco Drug, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts based Star Market, Anaheim, California based Sav-on Drugs, Great Falls, Montana based Buttrey Food Stores and White Hen. This acquisition also returned L. L. Skaggs's Osco Drug chain to the Skaggs family ownership. And Sav-on