Save Mart Supermarkets Explained

The Save Mart Companies
Type:Private
Founders:Michael Piccinini and Nicholas Tocco
Area Served:Northern/Central California, Northern Nevada
Industry:Retail
Revenue: (2019)[1]
Num Employees: 12,000 (2023)
Owner:Jim Pattison Group
Subsid:Lucky, FoodMaxx
Homepage:
Foundation: in Modesto, California
Location City:Modesto, California
Location Country:United States
Locations:194 stores

The Save Mart Companies is an American grocery store operator founded and headquartered in Modesto, California. It owns and operates stores under the Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx brands. The stores are located in northern and central California and northern Nevada. The company is owned by the Jim Pattison Group.

Overview

Save Mart stores are full-service grocery stores with a broad product offering, including fresh produce, bakery goods, deli foods and ethnic foods. In Lodi and Stockton, an unrelated Save Mart chain operated and so stores were branded under the S-Mart Foods name. The unrelated chain has since folded and the stores in Lodi and Stockton are now under the Save Mart banner.

Company history

Banners and brands

Save Mart Supermarkets includes a number of store banners and private label product brands.

Lucky

See main article: Lucky Stores. Lucky is a chain of full-service grocery stores with a broad product offering, including fresh produce, bakery goods, deli foods, and ethnic foods. The chain operates in and around the San Francisco Bay Area under its own banner and its newer banner concept, Lucky California. Lucky is a revival of the original chain (with pictures of its stores from the 1940s) after Save Mart acquired the northern California Albertsons stores from Cerberus Capital Management in 2006, which included the rights to use the Lucky name.

FoodMaxx

FoodMaxx is Save Mart's warehouse-style grocery chain. It began in 1986, when Save Mart's then-CEO Bob Piccinini saw the potential of the no-frills grocery store concept which offered the same products at a fraction of the price. Piccinini opened two new Food 4 Less stores in the Fresno area.[4]

After the success of the two new Food 4 Less stores, the first FoodMaxx in Fresno opened in 1989. By 2000, 15 stores had opened. As of 2021, There are currently 51 store locations in California and 2 in Nevada.[5]

Maxx Value Foods

A grocery store in Modesto that offers products at warehouse-store prices without a store club membership fee. It is part of the FoodMaxx banner.

Store brands

Distribution infrastructure

Super Store Industries (Lathrop) also produces and packages bottled beverages, cultured dairy products, and frozen dairy products for several brands, including Sunnyside Farms yogurt, Stater Brothers ice cream, and Minute Maid orange juice. SSI owns and operates Sunnyside Farms (Fairfield) and Sunnyside Farms Dairy (Turlock).[6]

Store closures

Since 2010, the company has closed stores in Bakersfield, Clovis, Delano, Elk Grove, Folsom, Fresno, Kerman, Larkspur, Madera, Merced, Milpitas, Modesto, Sparks, Sanger, San Pablo, Tracy and Yuba City, due to competition, higher prices and other reasons.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

Lawsuits

In a 2013 settlement with 35 California district attorneys, the company agreed to pay $2.55 million in civil penalties, costs and expenses for violating state law on storage, handling and disposal of hazardous materials, including bleaches, batteries, electronic devices, ignitible liquids, aerosol products and cleaning products.[19] [20]

In 2015 the company agreed to pay $277,319 in back pay and damages to distribution center workers in Vacaville (now closed) and Roseville. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the company failed to include bonuses in the employee rate of pay when computing overtime.[21] [22]

Unions

Employees at the company's stores are represented by labor unions.[23] These include:United Food and Commercial Workers, Teamsters, Service Employees International Union and Machinist Automotive Trades District.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Save Mart Supermarkets on the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies List . Forbes . 2015-04-28.
  2. Web site: The Save Mart Companies Announces Acquisition by Kingswood Capital Management. 28 March 2022 . April 26, 2022.
  3. Web site: 2024-06-28 . Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group acquires U.S. grocery chain owner Save Mart Companies . 2024-07-01 . CityNews Vancouver.
  4. Web site: CompanyHistory . October 8, 2015.
  5. Web site: Company Profile. 2021-12-14.
  6. Web site: Hey Moo! . Super Store Industries . 30 November 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111121163911/http://www.ssica.com/HeyMoo/HeyMoo.aspx. November 21, 2011.
  7. Web site: Save Mart Closing Two Stores . Supermarket News . 2010-09-28 . 2015-04-28.
  8. News: Clovis Save Mart closing; national retailer moving in . The Fresno Bee. 2015-04-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20160118110155/http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/community/clovis-news/article19513089.html. January 18, 2016.
  9. Web site: Mike . North . Save Mart closing two Merced stores . The Merced Sun-Star . 2015-04-28.
  10. Web site: Save-Mart To Close Store In Elk Grove . CBS Sacramento . 2012-06-01 . 2015-04-28.
  11. Web site: Bowers . Wes . Milpitas Save Mart to close . San Jose Mercury News . 2015-04-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160118110153/http://www.mercurynews.com/milpitas/ci_20832997/milpitas-save-mart-close . 2016-01-18 .
  12. Web site: Stapley . Garth . Save Mart to close grocery store in downtown Modesto . The Modesto Bee . 2015-04-28.
  13. News: Garaygordobil, Gene. Delano Save Mart sells to competitor, closing later this month . Delano Now.com. 2015-04-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160118110154/http://delanonow.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-custom.cgi?d=delano-now&page=25911 . 2016-01-18 .
  14. News: Eric . Vodden . Yuba City's Save Mart will close in March . The Appeal-Democrat . 2015-04-28.
  15. News: Save Mart plans to convert southeast Fresno store to FoodMaxx. The Fresno Bee. 2015-04-28 . dead . https://archive.today/20150428211309/http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/06/03/3958956/save-mart-plans-to-convert-southeast.html . 2015-04-28.
  16. News: Denise Ellen . Rizzo . Biz Buzz: FoodMaxx to replace 11th Street Save Mart. Tracy Press. 2015-02-19 . 2015-04-28.
  17. News: Save Mart Supermarkets closing grocery store in Folsom . Sacramento Business Journal . 2015-04-22 . 2015-04-28.
  18. Web site: Lucky supermarket is set to close Bay Area storefront after 40 years . Susana . Guerrero . San Francico Chronicle . March 28, 2023 . April 17, 2024.
  19. Web site: Jennifer . Bonnett . $2.6 million settlement in Save Mart lawsuit . Lodinews.com . 2013-04-04 . 2015-04-28.
  20. Web site: Save Mart to pay $2.5M from hazardous waste suit . Thebusinessjournal.com . 2019-10-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130920091341/https://thebusinessjournal.com/news/legal/5589-save-mart-to-pay-2-5m-from-hazardous-waste-suit . 2013-09-20.
  21. Web site: Save Mart to pay thousands in back pay, damages to distribution center workers in Vacaville, Roseville . 13 April 2015 . Thereporter.com . 2015-04-28.
  22. News: Save Mart to pay workers back wages, damages. Modesto, California. Central Valley Business Times . 2015-04-13 . 2015-04-28. https://archive.today/20150428200552/http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=28139. 2015-04-28.
  23. https://www.savemart.com/news-container/fact-sheet Fact Sheet

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