Associated Food Stores

The headquarters for Associated Foods is located at 1850 W 2100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.[1] The company's President and CEO is Bob Obray. He replaced Neal Berube after Neal retired in December of 2020.[2][3] It reported over US$1.6 billion (equivalent to $1.973 billion in 2019) in sales during fiscal year 2007 and is currently the fifty-sixth largest grocery retailer in the country by volume [4] with 23% of its total sales coming from its corporate stores.

Associated Food Stores was founded in 1940 by Donald P. Lloyd, president of the Utah Retail Grocers Association along with 34 Utah retailers. Concerned with the effect that large corporate stores would have on small independent retailers, he felt the only way these small businesses could survive is if they united and faced the competition as one, therefore increasing their collective buying power. He convinced 34 stores to donate $300 (equivalent to $5,475 in 2019) to help build an independent and "associated" warehouse.[2]

In 1999, Associated Food Stores purchased Utah grocery store chain Macey's. In August 2017, Macey's broke with 70-year tradition by deciding to open some of their stores on Sundays.[5]

In 2009, Associated Food Stores purchased 34 Albertsons stores in Utah from Supervalu Inc.[6] The stores were renamed Associated Fresh Market (more commonly known as just "Fresh Market"). As of June 2017, however, only 17 of the originally purchased locations were still under the Fresh Market banner, the rest having been either closed or sold.[7]

In 2017, two Fresh Market locations in Murray and Holladay were re-branded as Macey's.[8][9]

As well as supplying independent grocers, Associated Food Stores also owns several corporate stores under five different names, operating a total of 38 locations.

• Macey's is their largest brand, and has 15 locations across the Wasatch Front, Tooele, and the Logan area.[10]
• Fresh Market was created after their acquisition of most of the Albertsons locations in Utah. There are currently 12 locations along the Wasatch Front and in Park City.[7] This is significantly fewer than the 34 locations they originally purchased from Albertsons.
• Lin's has 7 locations in the St. George area, Cedar City, Richfield, Price, and Overton, Nevada.[11]
• Dan's has 2 locations in Salt Lake County.[12]
• Dick's Market has 2 locations in Davis County.[13]

The Harmons store at the City Creek Center in Salt Lake City, Utah

Popular stores owned and/or supplied by Associated Food Stores:

Associated Food Stores was a primary distributor of the popular store brand Western Family owned by Western Family Foods before being replaced by Food Club and other Topco brands. This also includes Better Buy, Shurfine, Shursavings, and Marketchoice brands.[14]

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• Official websites for stores owned and/or supplied by Associated Foods:
  • Clark's Market
  • Dan's
  • Dick's Market
  • Fresh Market
  • Harmons
  • Kent's Market
  • Lee's Marketplace
  • Lin's Market
  • Macey's
  • Peterson's
  • Raine's Market
  • Reams
  • Ridley's Family Markets
  • Wingars