Question: In which area the largest privately held supermarket chains in the United States was established which acquired Seessel's Supermarkets in 2002?

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H-E-B: HEB Grocery Company, LP, also known as HEB Grocery Stores, is an American privately held supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 350 stores throughout the U.S. state of Texas, as well as in northeast Mexico.  The company also operates Central Market, an upscale organic and fine foods retailer.  As of 2013, the company has a total revenue surpassing $20 billion USD (2013).  H-E-B ranked No. 15 on Forbes' 2014 list of "America's Largest Private Companies."  H-E-B was named Retailer of the Year in 2010 by "Progressive Grocer".  "Supermarket News" ranked H-E-B No. 13 in the 2008 "Top 75 North American Food Retailers."  Based on 2014 revenues, H-E-B is the twentieth largest retailer in the United States.  It donates 5 percent of pre-tax profits to charity.  Until 1976, it was closed on Sundays and did not sell alcohol.

Dutch Bros. Coffee: Dutch Bros.  Coffee is a privately held drive-through coffee chain headquartered in Grants Pass, Oregon, United States, with company-owned and franchise locations throughout the western United States.  Dutch Bros. is the country's largest privately held, drive-through coffee chain, with 284 stores in 7 western U.S. states.

CL Financial: CL Financial was the largest privately held conglomerate in Trinidad and Tobago and one of the largest privately held corporations in the entire Caribbean, before the company encountered a major liquidity crisis and subsequent bailout in 2009.

Gordon Food Service: Gordon Food Service (commonly abbreviated GFS) is the largest privately held foodservice distributor in North America with sales of $5.5 billion in 2007 and expected to finish 2012 with over $10 billion.  Headquartered in Wyoming, Michigan, GFS has stores in the states of Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.  Gordon Food Service also distributes to portions of Wisconsin, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.  GFS was founded in 1897 by Isaac van Westenbrugge, a 23-year-old Dutch immigrant, and by his son-in-law Ben Gordon.  It was started by Van Westenbrugge with only 300 dollars borrowed from his brother to start an egg and butter delivery service.  In 2009, GFS opened a new distribution center in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and opened a warehouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin the next year.  The company continued expanding by building a distribution center in Kannapolis in 2016, and now has warehouses in twelve states.  According to Forbes Magazine, GFS is the 26th largest privately held company in the United States.

Clemens Markets: Clemens Markets also known as Clemens Family Markets was a supermarket chain in the Philadelphia area.  It was family-owned from the founding of its first store in Lansdale, Pennsylvania to the sale of the company in 2006.  Clemens was one of three independent supermarket chains to identify as "family markets" in Greater Philadelphia.  Another was Genuardi's, which was sold to Safeway Inc. in 2000.  The last one was Giunta's, which went out of business soon after Clemens.  During the 1980s and 1990s, Clemens expanded by opening many new locations; eventually Clemens operated 20 supermarkets in three Pennsylvania counties, moving its headquarters to Kulpsville, Pennsylvania in 1993.  The chain eventually acquired many Thriftway/Shop 'n Bag franchises.  Many of these were also former Acme, A&P, Food Fair, and Penn Fruit stores.  Clemens later acquired many former Shop 'n Save stores which themselves started as Super G.  In 1999, it introduced its upscale FoodSource division, which had three locations.  One of these stores was a former Zagara's, a gourmet supermarket chain itself a division of Genuardi's and later Safeway.

Casa Ley: Casa Ley is a Mexican grocery store chain founded in 1954 by Juan Ley Fong.  Most of its stores are located in western Mexico, in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, and Baja California Sur.  It is Mexico's largest privately held supermarket chain, and is 49% owned by Albertsons Companies, Inc., which acquired Safeway Inc.'s shares of the chain after its acquisition by Albertsons in 2015.

Schnucks: Schnucks is a supermarket chain.  Established in the St. Louis area, the company was started in 1939 with the opening of a 1000 sqft store in north St. Louis and now operates 100 stores in five states throughout the Midwest.  Schnucks also ran stores under the Logli Supermarkets and Hilander Foods banners.  Schnucks is one of the largest privately held supermarket chains in the United States and dominates the St. Louis metro grocery market.

Seessel's: Seessel's Supermarkets was an upscale grocery chain in Memphis, Tennessee, owned by Albertsons, Inc.  It was acquired by Schnucks in 2002, which rebranded the stores Schnucks.

Wellcome: Wellcome (; Cantonese: "Wai Hong" in Hong Kong; in Taiwan) is a supermarket chain owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings via its Dairy Farm International Holdings subsidiary.  The Wellcome supermarket chain is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being PARKnSHOP.  Wellcome also operates supermarkets in Taiwan and the Philippines under the Wellcome name.  The parent company, Dairy Farm, also has other supermarket interests in the Asia Pacific under different brand names.

Water Lilies Food: Water Lilies Food Inc. is a privately held food manufacturer located in Astoria, Queens, New York providing a wide variety of Asian gourmet specialty items.  Water Lilies manufactures many of their products under the Water Lilies brand or private labels for many Asian/Chinese and American supermarket chains on the East and West coast, supplying over 12 tons of food annually.

Supporting paragraphs: Seessel's Schnucks
Answer: St. Louis area