United Supermarkets
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Headquarters | 7830 Orlando Avenue Lubbock, Texas, 79423, United States |
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Number of locations
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66 |
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Area served
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North Texas, West Texas |
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Key people
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Robert Taylor, President Chris James, COO |
| Products | Bakery, dairy, deli, frozen foods, general grocery, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks, Beer and Wine |
| Revenue | $1.4 (est.) billion USD |
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Number of employees
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11,000+ (2014) |
| Parent | Albertsons |
| Website | www |
United Supermarkets is a North American supermarket grocery store chain. With headquarters in Lubbock, Texas, its roots go back to 1916, when H.D. Snell opened his first United Cash Store in Sayre, Oklahoma. Today, his legacy has grown to include 66 stores in 30 Texas cities and over 10,000 workers.
United Supermarkets has stores primarily located in North Texas, West Texas and the Texas Panhandle. The five regions for store locations are: the Lubbock region has 18 stores, the Amarillo region has 13 stores, the Wichita Falls region has eight stores, the Abilene region has five stores, and the Dallas region has seven stores. While it shares the same name as United Supermarkets based in Oklahoma, it technically does business as United Supermarkets, L.L.C. to differentiate from the Oklahoma chain, as they are separate grocery entities.
Today, United Supermarkets is run by the Albertsons chain, and operates as a division of Albertsons.
In addition to the original grocery chain, it has added two other concepts in recent years:
Dan J. Sanders, who became CEO in June 2004, published a book, Built to Serve, with Mcgraw-Hill in September 2007. Built to Serve is a management book that stresses the principles on which United was supposedly founded. It focuses on putting people before profits. The foreword was written by Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and the afterword was written by Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager. Dan stepped down in Feb. 2010 and Robert Taylor was named CEO.
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