page_title: Brookshire Grocery Company
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Brookshire Grocery Company / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Brookshire's grocery store in Overton, Texas, USA
context_page_description: Brookshire Grocery Company is a Tyler, Texas-based supermarket chain with more than a 178 stores operating in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas with their four banners, Brookshire's, Super 1 Foods, Fresh by Brookshire's, and Spring Market.
context_section_description: The company was founded in 1928 by Wood T. and Louise Brookshire, when they opened their first 25 x 100-foot (30 m) store on Tyler’s downtown square.
  Brookshire's was originally part of the Brookshire Brothers chain, which was founded seven years earlier in Lufkin, Texas. The companies split in 1939, when Wood T. Brookshire took control of the Tyler-area stores in exchange for his share in the Brookshire Brothers partnership.  The companies are no longer related except by name.
  In the 1940s, the company expanded to other neighboring communities and opened its first shopping center location. Brookshire’s first warehouse opened in Tyler in 1953.
  The 1960s saw the company's expansion into Louisiana and the construction of a 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m²) distribution center in Tyler.
  In 1984, the company opened the first of several Super 1 Foods stores in Alexandria, LA.  Super 1 Foods was originally a no-frills, warehouse format.  Initially, stores were opened in recycled buildings to cut down on cost, but later the company began building stores on their own.  In several cases (#608 in Shreveport and #612 in Longview), existing Brookshire's stores were closed and demolished to build a Super 1 Foods store.  In Marshall and Longview, existing Brookshire's stores were converted to the Super 1 format.
  The company opened several Super 1 Foods stores in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in the late 1990s and early 2000s, some of which were replacements for nearby Brookshire's locations. The company sold all metro area stores to (now defunct) Fleming, which re-branded them as Rainbow Foods. All Rainbow stores were closed when Fleming went out of business.
  In 2012, a new format Super 1 Foods store was built in Carencro, LA., with a new floorplan and decor package that would be rolled out to all the other stores.  A similar store was built to replace #610 in Tyler.
  The Brookshire Grocery Company also opened FRESH by Brookshire's in Tyler, TX on March 10, 2011. The store was designed to give an upscale shopping experience and features a bakery and many organic items. The first annual FRESH 15 Road Race was held on March 1, 2014 and continues yearly.
  Along with the FRESH 15, Brookshire’s and Super 1 Foods host a half marathon, 5K and Kids 1K named Heroes Run, benefiting local first responders and military heroes. This event takes place in Shreveport, LA with 1,500 participants in 2016 raising $40,000 for charity. 
  In June 2016 Brookshire's purchased 25 stores formerly owned by Wal-Mart (formerly their Wal-Mart Express brand).  The stores, located in Texas (20 stores) and Louisiana (five stores) were re-branded as Spring Market (the name taken from Brookshire's first location on Spring Avenue in Tyler).
caption: Brookshire's grocery store in Overton, Texas
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