Question: Fred G. Meyer's chain of one-stop Fred Meyer superstores spread across the western states, but which state did it originate from?
Context: Grand Central was a chain of discount department stores founded by Maurice Warshaw (1898–1979) in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Grand Central had stores in Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada.  In 1984, Fred Meyer acquired the Grand Central chain, and a year later, Fred Meyer closed the one Wyoming Grand Central location, and sold the Arizona and New Mexico stores to Walmart. Connec+ipedia, spoken as Connectipedia, was a free culture wiki website providing a community-editable resource about non-profit organizations and foundations in the U.S. state of Oregon.  It was online from 2008 to 2015.  It was funded and maintained by the Meyer Memorial Trust, a private philanthropic organization founded by Fred G. Meyer's personal trust. The Fred Meyer Challenge was a charity golf tournament played in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.  Held from 1986 to 2002, it was organized by Portland native and PGA Tour golfer Peter Jacobsen and sponsored by the then locally owned hypermarket chain Fred Meyer.  The field included active and retired PGA Tour players.  It was always played as a two-man team best ball event.  In its inaugural year, it was played as in a match play format, with four teams competing.  For the rest of its tenure, it was played in a stroke play format, with 8 to 12 teams competing. Smith's Food & Drug Centers, Inc. was founded in 1911 in Brigham City, Utah, United States by Lorenzo J. Smith.  Now a subsidiary of The Kroger Company, it is a prominent regional supermarket chain operating in the Southwest, Northwest, and Tennessee.  After completing a merger with Portland-based Fred Meyer in 1997, Fred Meyer was in turn acquired by Cincinnati-based Kroger in 1999, making Kroger the largest supermarket chain in the United States.  Smith's headquarters are in Salt Lake City. Fred Meyer, Inc., is a chain of superstores founded in 1922 in Portland, Oregon, by Fred G. Meyer (not to be confused with Frederik Gerhard Hendrik Meijer, former chairman of the Meijer superstore chain, which is based in Michigan, with stores in the Midwest).  The company was one of the pioneers of one-stop shopping, eventually combining a complete grocery supermarket with a drugstore, clothing store, shoe store, fine jewelers, home decor store, home improvement center, garden center, electronics store, toy store, sporting goods store, and more under one roof. Fred Meyer Jewelers is a national chain of jewelers.  It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fred Meyer. Fred Meyer, Inc. is an American company founded in Portland, Oregon by Fred G. Meyer. Nikki Kimball (born May 23, 1971) is an American distance runner specializing in the Ultramarathon.  She ran her first 100-mile race at the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run in 2004, and was the female winner.  She was the winning female at Western States again in 2006 and 2007, becoming only the third woman to win Western States three times.  In 2014, she won the Marathon Des Sables multi-stage endurance race on her first attempt.  Prior to running, her main sport was cross-country skiing.  She was crewed at the 2007 Western States by U.S. Senator Max Baucus of Montana, where Kimball lives.  She lives in Bozeman, Montana. Fred G. Bond Metropolitan park is the largest municipal park in Cary, North Carolina.  It is also one of the largest municipal parks in Wake County.  It has 310 acre of recreational space, 4.2 mi of trails, and a variety of athletic fields, all in a natural setting.  Bond Park is home to Bond Lake, a man-made freshwater lake open to fishing and boating.  The 1.5-mile Bond Lake trail circles Bond Lake, and is popular with local mountain bikers and joggers.  Bond Park also is home to Bond Park Community Center, which hosts several of Cary's athletic teams, and the Cary Senior Center.  The park is named after Fred G. Bond, former mayor of Cary, whose bust can be seen adjacent to Bond Park's boathouse. Fred G. Meyer (February 21, 1886 – September 2, 1978) was an American businessman who founded the Oregon-based Fred Meyer store chain, which had 63 stores in four western states at the time of his death.  He was known for successfully introducing several innovative marketing concepts.
Answer: Oregon