Bashas
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A Bashas' Supermarket in Arizona
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| Private | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Headquarters | Chandler, Arizona |
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Number of locations
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118 total (Bashas' 56; Food City 48; AJ's Fine Foods 11; Bashas' Dine Market 7) |
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Key people
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Edward Basha III, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board [1] |
| Products | Grocery |
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Number of employees
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9,085 [2] |
| Website | bashas.com |
Bashas' is a family-owned grocery store chain, primarily located in Arizona, with one location outside the state in Crownpoint, New Mexico. Its headquarters are in unincorporated Maricopa County, Arizona, near Chandler.
The Bashas' Family of Stores includes four distinct formats: Bashas', Bashas' Diné, AJ's Fine Foods and Food City. The company has more than 130 stores serving every county in Arizona and Crownpoint, New Mexico. The company had a location in California in the town of Needles that closed in May 2014. The company recently added a new format called Bashas' Farmers Market. This newest format is only in Prescott, Payson, and Winslow. With all the layoffs in 2009 and store closures, Bashas' employees total approximately 8,500.
Bashas' has doubled in size in the last decade with stores under the Bashas' name, as well as AJ's Fine Foods, and Food City, bringing the total to more than 130 stores.
Most Bashas' stores are non-union; however, nine stores that Bashas' acquired from previous chains continue to be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers, which campaigns against the chain. In October 2007, an Administrative Law Judge sided with the UFCW and an NLRB ruling that Bashas' violated federal law by withdrawing recognition to the UFCW at the inherited stores [3].
Bashas' also has a Distribution Center, located in Chandler, which includes over 16 acres (65,000 m2) of under-roof space, as well as a full mechanic shop. The perishables area of the Center is temperature- and climate-controlled and includes ripening rooms and areas that vary in temperature from a base temperature of 55 °F year-round to freezer rooms of -10 °F.
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