 schnucks is a supermarket chain. based in the st. louis area, the company was started in 1939 with the opening of a  store in north st. louis city and now operates 100 stores  in five states throughout the midwest. schnucks also ran stores under the logli supermarkets and hilander foods banners.http://www.schnucks.com/pressreleases/pressrelease.asp?id=225 schnucks is one of the largest privately held supermarket chains in the united states. ==history== thumb|300px|right|a schnucks supercenter in south city st. louis edwin and anna schnuck, with sons donald and edward, founded schnuck markets, inc., in st. louis in 1939. in 1946, its first large-scale retail store was opened, measuring . by 1952, its first major store was opened in brentwood, a st. louis suburb. the schnucks symbol, a soldier, was introduced in 1968, (during the vietnam war). schnucks continued to grow, acquiring stores in illinois, indiana, tennessee, mississippi, missouri, iowa, and wisconsin. a previous merger in 1970 had seen schnucks acquire the bettendorf-rapp chain of grocery storesâtemporarily forming the schnucks-bettendorf's chain until the latter half of the combined name was dropped a couple of years laterâjust as bettendorf's had swallowed up the rapp chain of stores to form bettendorf-rapp's in the 1960s. schnucks underwent a major expansion in 1995 when it purchased from loblaws the national supermarkets chain, also based in st. louis. schnucks' growth in the st. louis area was bolstered by the local abandonment of two major supermarket chains: a&p in the 1970s, and kroger in 1986. ==system compromise in 2012-2013== beginning in december 2012, schnucks experienced a system compromise. during a 4-month period, up to 2.4 million credit/debit cards were put at risk. many people had to cancel 
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