B & B (grocery retailer)
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| B&B Stores, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Fate | Conversion to Fred Meyer |
| Successor | Fred Meyer, later Smith's Food & Drug |
| Founded | |
| Defunct | 1980s |
| Location | Kalispell, Montana |
| Industry | Retail |
| Products | Food, clothing, footwear, bedding, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, toys, and housewares. |
| Former Parent | The Roundup Company |
| Subsidiary | B&B Pharmacy, Inc. |
B & B was a chain of grocery stores founded in Kalispell, Montana. The company operated their flagship store as a hypermarket.
[edit] Relation to Fred Meyer
In the 1960s the parent company of B&B, The Roundup Company of Spokane was acquired by Fred Meyer and converted into Fred Meyer stores by the mid 1980s. In 1998, when Fred Meyer acquired a few Montana locations of Buttrey Food & Drug and Albertsons the company renamed these stores Smith's Food & Drug and the company then decided to keep one name in Montana; thus the Montana Fred Meyer stores were converted to Fred Meyer owned Smith's Food & Drug stores. Because the size of the Kalispell store was determined too big for Smith's to use, which was caused by the store's past as a full size Fred Meyer, the store was then closed and demolished for a new smaller building which opened in 1999.
[edit] Former locations
- Kalispell, Montana: B & B Shopping Center (renamed Fred Meyer mid-1980s, renamed Smith's in 1997, original building demolished and rebuilt in 1999)
- Columbia Falls, Montana: Nucleus Avenue (renamed Fred Meyer mid-1980s, renamed Smith's in 1997)
- Polson, Montana: U.S. Highway 93 (now Super 1 Foods)
