Angeli Foods Explained

Angeli Foods
Logo Alt:The company name superimposed over an oval piece of CGI wood
Industry:Grocery store
Founded: in Iron River, Michigan
Fate:Sold
Successor:Super One Foods

Angeli Foods, also known as Angeli's Central Market or Angeli's Super Valu, was an American grocery store chain founded in Iron River, Michigan.[1] Italian immigrant Alfred Angeli opened the first store in 1917, and the company grew to encompass several locations dotted across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Angeli Foods remained under family ownership for three generations until its sale in 2022.

History

Italian immigrant Alfred Angeli founded Angeli Foods in 1917 at 402 W. Adams St. in the growing mining community of Iron River, Michigan.[2] [3] It was the first self-service grocery store to open in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the first to offer a frozen food locker, and the first to offer a five-day workweek. They were also the Upper Peninsula's first independent retailer to offer profit sharing and medical insurance.[4]

Early in Angeli Foods' existence, it delivered groceries around Iron River using a 1924 Ford Model TT truck. They retained the vehicle as an in-store display after it was retired.[3] According to the company's official history, over the next few decades Angeli Foods branched into several other industries, including a 2000acres farm, the Iron Inn hotel, a feed warehouse, and pet supplies.[2]

After Alfred Angeli's death in 1950, his grocery store remained within the family for two more generations.[2] Alfred's son Libero worked quickly to build a new Iron River store location, on which construction began in 1953.[5]

Under Libero, Angeli Foods continued expanding into the 1990s. They helped develop and anchored Riverside Plaza, Iron River's first shopping center,[4] [6] constructing a 24000square feet location a short distance east of the town.[7] By 1973, Angeli Foods was grossing $7.4 million in revenue, and Libero won the Small Business Administration's "Small Businessman of the Year for Michigan" award for his work in developing the Upper Peninsula.[4] By the 1990s, Angeli Foods had opened or acquired several other stores in the region, including:

In 2013, third-generation owner Fred Angeli was given the Michigan Grocers Association's first Al Kessel Outstanding Achievement Award.[15] [16] In the following year, Angeli Foods began offering organic food at their store in Menominee.[17] They sold their grocery locations in Menominee and Marinette to Jack's Fresh Market in 2016,[9] and the Marinette gas station by 2017,[18] leaving only their original Iron River location.

As of 2019, the last remaining Angeli Foods store in Iron River employed over a hundred people with additional temporary workers taken on during the busier summer.[3] The location was known for its unusually expansive array of Italian products.[3] Explorer's Guide had previously lauded the store as an "extraordinary market", and added that its variety of fresh food options seemed "entirely out of place for tiny Iron River."[19] Non-grocery operations included an attached Verizon mobile phone store, a UPS parcel drop-off and pick-up location, dry cleaning, a Stormy Kromer outlet center, and a sporting goods store. The latter replaced an Angeli-run video rental store in 2017 due to a rise in video streaming.[3]

At the beginning of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Angeli Foods worked with volunteers to allow customers to phone in their orders for contactless pickup at the store.[20] A year later, it launched a website where customers could order their groceries for later pickup.[21]

Related businesses

Mike Leonard Angeli, part of a separate branch of the Angeli family, opened an Angeli grocery store in Marquette, Michigan in 1959.[22] The 11000square feet building[23] was located near the intersection of Washington and 7th Streets.[24] This location closed in 1975[25] after Angeli became a founding and anchor tenant in the Marquette Mall complex. Angeli's new purpose-built mall store was large and carried SuperValu branding.[23] It opened in 1973 and closed due to an increasingly competitive local grocery scene in 1989.[22] [25] [26]

Sale

On 15 March 2022, Angeli Foods announced that it had reached a tentative agreement to sell itself for an undisclosed amount to Miner's, Inc., the owner and operator of Super One Foods, a chain of grocery store located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. As part of the arrangement, Angeli's last extant store in Iron River would be rebranded and become the thirty-second Super One.[27] [28] The sale concluded in May, and the store was closed for a day to begin the changeover.[29] [30]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Lopez . Monique . July 6, 2017 . Angeli's Turns 100 . Upper Michigan's Source . Negaunee, Michigan . . May 19, 2020 . May 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220528040520/https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/Angelis-turns-100-432998733.html . live .
  2. Web site: Our History . Angeli Foods . May 2, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220502210203/http://angelifoods.com/history/ . May 2, 2022 . dead .
  3. News: Proudfit . Theresa . February 4, 2019 . Family-owned Angeli Foods has served Iron River area since 1917 . Iron Mountain Daily News . May 19, 2020 . April 20, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190420105141/http://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/news/local-news/2019/02/family-owned-angeli-foods-has-served-iron-river-area-since-1917/ . live .
  4. News: Angeli Wins Small Business Award . Escanaba Daily Press . May 22, 1973 . 7 . subscription . May 20, 2022 . May 20, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520182939/https://newspaperarchive.com/escanaba-daily-press-may-22-1973-p-7/ . live .
  5. News: Peninsula Paragraphs . The Evening News . Sault Ste. Marie . November 4, 1953 . 5 . subscription . May 20, 2022 . May 20, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520185526/https://newspaperarchive.com/sault-ste-marie-evening-news-nov-04-1953-p-5/ . live .
  6. News: Libero Angeli . Escanaba Daily Press . November 10, 1986 . 2 . subscription . May 20, 2022 . May 20, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520185858/https://newspaperarchive.com/escanaba-daily-press-nov-10-1986-p-2/ . live .
  7. News: MFC Names New Director . Ironwood Daily Globe . May 28, 1992 . 5 . subscription . May 21, 2022 . May 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521063002/https://newspaperarchive.com/ironwood-daily-globe-may-28-1992-p-5/ . live .
  8. News: Cub's little brother mauls competitors . Progressive Grocer . Ronald . Tanner . August 1984 . Gale Academic OneFile . limited . 2022-05-02 . 2023-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231003223346/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&id=GALE%7CA3375967&v=2.1&it=r&userGroupName=anon%7Eb4642eb4&aty=open-web-entry . live .
  9. News: Jack's purchases Angeli stores . February 16, 2016 . Eagle Herald . May 21, 2022 . May 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521070701/https://www.ehextra.com/jack-s-purchases-angeli-stores/article_7ad91ad0-15f0-51e5-a5e6-650348041fee.html . live .
  10. News: Tempo Store, M. & M. Plaza, To Become Angeli's Country Market, Opens Early 1983 . Marinette Eagle-Star . October 13, 1982 . 1 .
  11. News: Angeli's To Undergo Remodeling, Expansion In Menominee . Marinette Eagle-Star . October 18, 1989 . 1 .
  12. News: Angeli's To Acquire Food-4-Less . Marinette Eagle-Star . January 22, 1992 . 1 .
  13. News: Angeli's On Roosevelt Road Adds Expanded Video Section To Store . Marinette Eagle-Star . May 23, 1992 . 5 .
  14. News: Mike . Desotell . Angeli not afraid to sink money into stores . August 21, 2008 . Eagle Herald . May 21, 2022 . May 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521071820/https://www.ehextra.com/angeli-not-afraid-to-sink-money-into-stores/article_b715a390-99cf-5fda-bb9a-fbdb13940f81.html . live .
  15. MI Grocers Honor Top Retailer, Partner . August 9, 2013 . Progressive Grocer . May 19, 2020 . May 19, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200519204954/https://progressivegrocer.com/mi-grocers-honor-top-retailer-partner . live .
  16. News: Michigan Lauds Angeli, Spartan . August 12, 2013 . Supermarket News . May 22, 2022 . September 29, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220929143122/https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-amp-financial/michigan-lauds-angeli-spartan . live .
  17. News: Sam . Eggleston . March 26, 2014 . Angeli Foods in Menominee expands to include organic, natural selections . Upper Peninsula's Second Wave . https://web.archive.org/web/20220522154308/https://www.secondwavemedia.com/upper-peninsula/innovationnews/angelifoods32614.aspx . May 22, 2022 .
  18. News: Emma . Kuhn . Kwik Trip marks grand opening with donations . June 28, 2017 . Eagle Herald . May 21, 2022 . May 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521071206/https://www.ehextra.com/kwik-trip-marks-grand-opening-with-donations/article_50240b92-6bca-53ff-b774-b2331f090bb5.html . live .
  19. Book: Westervelt, Amy . Amy Westervelt . Explorer's Guide Michigan's Upper Peninsula: A Great Destination . Second . 2012 . The Countryman Press . 978-1-58157-814-0 . 175 . 2022-05-22 . 2023-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231003223420/https://books.google.com/books?id=V6LmBWyky2MC&pg=PA175#v=onepage&q&f=false . live .
  20. News: Jawor . Alyssa . Michigan, Wisconsin grocery stores offering curbside pick-up or delivery . March 26, 2020 . Upper Michigan's Source . Negaunee, Michigan . WLUC-TV . May 22, 2022 . January 21, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210121015607/https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/Mich-Wisc-grocery-stores-offering-curbside-delivery-569134111.html . live .
  21. News: Angeli Foods introduces online ordering option . Iron County Reporter . https://web.archive.org/web/20220502210021/https://www.ironcountyreporter.com/news/angeli-foods-introduces-online-ordering-option . March 17, 2021 . May 2, 2022 . subscription .
  22. News: Marquette's Angeli Dies . Ironwood Daily Globe . September 15, 1998 . 13 . subscription . May 21, 2022 . May 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521060836/https://newspaperarchive.com/ironwood-daily-globe-sep-15-1998-p-13/ . live .
  23. News: Huge Shopping Center Slated for Marquette . Escanaba Daily Press . May 27, 1971 . 3 . subscription . May 21, 2022 . May 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521065139/https://newspaperarchive.com/escanaba-daily-press-may-27-1971-p-3/ . live .
  24. News: Martucci . Brian . January 22, 2014 . The sky is the limit for a newly expanded and relocated Marquette Food Co-op . Upper Peninsula's Second Wave . https://web.archive.org/web/20220502213012/https://www.secondwavemedia.com/upper-peninsula/features/mqtfoodcoop12214.aspx . May 2, 2022 .
  25. News: Angeli's Closing Marquette Store . Ironwood Daily Globe . November 8, 1989 . 5 . subscription . May 21, 2022 . May 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521061957/https://newspaperarchive.com/ironwood-daily-globe-nov-08-1989-p-5/ . live .
  26. News: What's in store for the Marquette Mall? . January 13, 2019 . Jaymie . Depew . The Mining Journal . https://web.archive.org/web/20190113173747/https://www.miningjournal.net/news/front-page-news/2019/01/whats-in-store-for-the%E2%80%88marquette%E2%80%88mall/ . January 13, 2019 .
  27. News: Iron River's Angeli Foods converting to Super One store . March 16, 2022 . Iron Mountain Daily News . May 2, 2022 . March 22, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220322220645/https://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/news/2022/03/iron-rivers-angeli-foods-converting-to-super-one-store/ . live .
  28. News: Miner's Inc. to purchase Angeli Foods grocery in Iron River . March 15, 2022 . Upper Michigan's Source . Negaunee, Michigan . WLUC-TV . May 2, 2022 . May 2, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220502203307/https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2022/03/15/miners-inc-purchase-angeli-foods-grocery-iron-river/ . live .
  29. News: Jawor . Alyssa . Angeli Foods closed Monday, reopens Tuesday with new name . May 2, 2022 . Upper Michigan's Source . Negaunee, Michigan . WLUC-TV . May 2, 2022 . May 2, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220502203301/https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2022/05/02/angeli-foods-closed-monday-reopens-tuesday-with-new-name/ . live .
  30. News: May 11, 2022 . Angeli's: The end of an era . Iron County Reporter . March 21, 2023 . May 12, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220512073030/https://www.ironcountyreporter.com/news/angelis-end-era . live .

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