Shop 'n Save

Shop ’n Save is a grocery store chain with over 90 locations nationwide. It originally had 40 stores in the St. Louis, Missouri, market. The company, headquartered in Pennsylvania and Missouri, is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of SuperValu Inc., based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. 
After the last stores closed, Shop 'n Save Market locations continue to operate.
== History ==
Shop ’n Save was founded in 1979 as a grocery store in the St. Louis suburb of Belleville, Illinois. The chain included 33 stores in the St. Louis metropolitan area, and 3 additional stores in Springfield, Illinois.
The chain was acquired by Ted Wetterau in 1982. In 1992, Wetterau Inc. was acquired by SuperValu, and Shop ’n Save has been a subsidiary of SuperValu ever since.
Shop 'n Save largely operated as a "hybrid" of a full-service grocery like its St. Louis-area competitors, Schnucks and Dierbergs, and discount grocers such as Aldi. Like a full-service store, its stores had a large square footprint and included a deli, butcher, large liquor section, and pharmacy, but like a discount grocer its furnishings were much more spartan, a substantial portion of its items for sale were private-label, and shoppers bagged their own purchases (though unlike at some discount supermarkets paper and plastic bags are provided free of charge).
In April 2018, SuperValu announced it was pursuing the sale of corporately owned Shop ’n Save stores in the St. Louis market as well as 21 of the former Food Lion locations it purchased in 2016. On September 18, 2018, SuperValu announced it was selling 19 of its locations to Schnucks Markets with the remaining locations to be closed by November 19th.
== See also ==
* Schnucks
* Dierbergs
* Save-A-Lot
* Aldi
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