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Current Retail => Grocery Stores/Supermarkets => Topic started by: Caldor1999 on May 10, 2005, 04:06:51 PM

Title: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: Caldor1999 on May 10, 2005, 04:06:51 PM
lol yes there is a super market that ahs that name :insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: Caldor1999 on May 10, 2005, 04:08:01 PM
heas the sign lmao this is such a funny logo lol:insane::insane::insane::insane::insane:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: Caldor1999 on May 10, 2005, 05:14:24 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
lol yes there is a super market that ahs that name :insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane:


hey are they still in business?:huh:

lol yep they are lol such a funny name:insane:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: store215 on May 10, 2005, 05:57:39 PM
They are a co-op like Shop Rite is. I saw a few in the  Carolinas. Many are in very old buildings in small towns
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: Caldor1999 on May 10, 2005, 06:39:33 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
QuoteOriginally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
lol yes there is a super market that ahs that name :insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane:


hey are they still in business?:huh:

lol yep they are lol such a funny name:insane:


yeah they sure do!

Piggly Wiggly oink oink LOL!:bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane:


LOL:insane::insane::insane::bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: Caldor1999 on May 24, 2005, 04:35:31 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by 76&AmesfanmanBBTB
QuoteOriginally posted by Anonymous
Oink! Oink! Oink! Oink!:insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane::insane:


WHATEVER:rolleyes:

lol :insane:

lol u gotta addmet that was kinda funny:insane:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: thedisneystore967 on June 19, 2005, 09:27:54 AM
wasn't there  a news story up in pennselvania about a toddler who climbed into a toy machine there? (must have been looking for porky pig...LOl):insane:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: Caldor1999 on June 19, 2005, 07:42:50 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by thedisneystore967
wasn't there  a news story up in pennselvania about a toddler who climbed into a toy machine there? (must have been looking for porky pig...LOl):insane:



LOL:insane:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:09:15 PM
Piggly Wiggly.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:10:25 PM
Old Piggly Wiggly.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:11:28 PM
Inside today's Piggly Wiggly.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:12:00 PM
Registers.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:12:39 PM
Piggly Wiggly Soda Machine.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:15:34 PM
The first Piggly Wiggly.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:16:19 PM
A Piggly Wiggly with a nice sign! :tumble:
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on August 09, 2005, 06:17:31 PM
Closed Piggly Wiggly. :(
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on January 07, 2006, 04:52:46 PM
Mequon, WI.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/pigglywiggly.html
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on January 07, 2006, 04:53:34 PM
Sparta, WI.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/pigglywiggly.html
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on January 07, 2006, 04:54:01 PM
Sparta, WI. Sign.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/pigglywiggly.html
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on January 07, 2006, 04:56:14 PM
Pontotoc, MS.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/pigglywiggly.html
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: storehistoryguy on January 07, 2006, 04:56:40 PM
New Albany, MS.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/pigglywiggly.html
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 04, 2008, 04:27:45 PM
There use to be a lot of Piggly Wiggly's in Southwest Virginia. they were owned by the Kennedy Family and the Rigg's. Piggly first open in Southwest Virginia in the lated 1920's when Mr. Kennedy opened his first store in Clintwood, Virginia and soon opened a second one in Norton,Va. Piggly Wiggly later had stores Southwest Virginia in the towns of Clintwood, Wise, Norton, Coeburn, St.Paul, Big Stone, Pennigton Gap, Rose Hill, and Cumberland, Kentucky.and a few more. But in the 1990's Food City based out of Abingdon Virginia bought the 11 Southwest Virginia supermarkets from Kennedy Piggly Wiggly. Jack Smith had started in the 1950's owning two Piggly Wiggly's and changed the name to Food  City. Check out web sitehttp://www.foodcity.com/companynews.php?id=1015&page=1
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 04, 2008, 10:46:58 PM
Piggly Wiggly opened this store in 1989 after it moved from Main Street to the new Ridgeview Shopping Centre. It stayed here at this location until Food City bought all the Kennedy Piggly Wiggly's around 1998. Food City kept this location opened until about two years ago, when they built a new Food City across U.S. 23 with Gas & Go. Grand Furniture moved from Norton Plaza in Norton, Virginia to this building.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 05, 2008, 12:37:00 PM
There's a lot of Piggly Wiggly's down south.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 05, 2008, 12:39:59 PM
Here's an old Piggly Wiggly Sign
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 05, 2008, 12:42:03 PM
Here's the old Grundy Piggly Wiggly.
This is where it all started for Jack Smith
He started this Piggly WIggly here first, and
then years later changed the name to
Food City's
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 05, 2008, 12:47:49 PM
Piggly Wiggly in Danville North Carolina has opened up in
a former Winn Dixie.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 05, 2008, 12:50:15 PM
Does anybody know What is a Piggly Wiggly Express may be I found this one in Rocky Mount North Carolina, if you have any info please post.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 05, 2008, 12:52:01 PM
Here's a picture of a Piggly Wiggly Soda machine. I thought it was a cool picture. I always loved the pig!!!!!
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 10, 2008, 10:33:42 PM
A closed Pig in Batesburg, South Carolina. You can still see the old label scares.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 10, 2008, 10:39:25 PM
Inside photo of Piggly Wiggly at Blacksburg
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 10, 2008, 10:40:58 PM
Outside picture of Piggly Wiggly
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on July 13, 2008, 10:11:02 PM
This building was built as a Piggly Wiggly back in the mid 1960's. There was another building that was built on this site. And after being opened a few years the building caught on fire and was a complete lost. While the building was being built back Piggly Wiggly put up a small building over to the side called The Burnt Pig. That stayed opened until the Piggly Wiggly was ready to open. Piggly Wiggly moved into this location in the mid 1960's and stayed opend until 1988. Then Piggly Wiggly moved to a brand new store in the Ridgeview Shopping center anchored by Kmart.
It is now home to Friendship Ambulance Service.
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on November 13, 2008, 09:17:41 PM
Jordan Shopping Center
332 Northeast Blvd
Title: Clinton, Nc
Post by: wiseguy93 on November 13, 2008, 09:21:15 PM
this Piggly Wiggly is also located at Clinton, Nc but this one at Shamrock Shopping Center
1111 Sunset Ave.
Title: Re: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: ynkeesfn82 on December 26, 2012, 07:13:27 AM
The first segment of the 6:30AM episode of Extreme Couponing on TLC this morning took place at a Piggly Wiggly. The lady got over $600 worth of stuff for under $360! She was aiming for a lower goal, but ultimately failed.
Title: Re: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: retailisking on December 26, 2012, 06:41:55 PM
Don't be a coupon piggy in the Piggly Wiggly...
Title: Re: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: IGA/Kmart Is Forever! on August 15, 2013, 08:34:17 PM
I was recently on vacation when the message-board went down and happened to go to a Piggly Wiggly Supermarket while I was on vacation. It was a very nice store. I loved it. All of the cashiers even have a Piggly Wiggly Savings Card at all of their cash registers to ensure that visitors to the city like I was get their discounts and store ad sales. I have never seen a store do this before. Usually if you want the store ad sales, most supermarket chains give you no other choice but to sign up for their stores savings card. I think the reason that Piggly Wiggly does not do the same thing though, is because all of their locations are independently owned just like Friendly's Restaurants are independently owned. From my personal shopping experience independently and family owned grocery stores usually value the consumer more than corporate chain grocery stores do. Proof of this is due to the fact that the northern half of the state that I live in was overflowing with family and independently owned grocery stores back in the 1960's/70's up to this present day which led to Kroger's leaving the northern half of the state that I live in back in the 1960's/70's due to the fact that they had so much trouble competing with all of these family and independently owned grocery stores. However, when it comes to Kroger's as a grocery chain, I like them. I have been to their stores plenty of times when I visit by younger brother where he has gone to college. The one grocery store chain that I cannot stand however is Giant Eagle. They give away unlimited free gas in exchange for hardly any customer service so that they can keep giving away this unlimited free gas. At the same time they have stopped valuing the consumer and have stopped listening to the consumer. We have probably about now today in the present time somewhere from 35% to 50% left of the family and independently owned grocery stores that we did back when I was born in the early 1980's. Out of these family and independently owned grocery stores that we still have left I prefer my local IGA Stores. However, if I lose the last 35% to 50% of the family and independently owned grocery stores I will gladly welcome both Kroger's and Piggly Wiggly back into my part of the state that I live in. I would definitely take both Kroger's and Piggly Wiggly over Giant Eagle because Giant Eagle not only has the worst customer service, but they have the highest prices in our area as well. However, if Piggly Wiggly would consider moving back to the part of the state that I live in, I can only hope that Piggly Wiggly would be able to financially survive, because they failed to survive the first time that they came to the part of the state that I live in.
Title: Re: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: ynkeesfn82 on September 12, 2013, 01:55:13 PM
In Carolina they're selling 22 stores to Bi-Lo and 6 to Harris Teeter.

http://supermarketnews.com/retail-amp-financial/piggly-wiggly-carolina-selling-28-stores
Title: Re: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: IGA/Kmart Is Forever! on September 13, 2013, 09:25:42 PM
Quote from: Marc B on September 12, 2013, 01:55:13 PM
In Carolina they're selling 22 stores to Bi-Lo and 6 to Harris Teeter.

http://supermarketnews.com/retail-amp-financial/piggly-wiggly-carolina-selling-28-stores
I just noticed the exact same thing through a link that was on www.yahoo.com. Here is the story that I read. It is a different one, but pretty much discusses the same topic. Here is a link to it. http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2013-09-13/savannah-piggly-wiggly-stores-sold#.UjPH477D_IU

Does anybody know why they are doing this? I know that Piggly Wiggly is independently owned. The family that is selling these twenty-eight locations; will they have any stores left after this at all?
Title: Re: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: Retail Regents on March 25, 2022, 08:33:20 PM
C&S has opened a Piggly Wiggly store in Watertown, NY, across the street from Watertown High School. It was one of the Tops stores that was originally meant to be converted to Grand Union. Opened March 3, 2022.

https://www.cswg.com/services/piggly-wiggly-supermarkets/ (https://www.cswg.com/services/piggly-wiggly-supermarkets/)
Title: Re: Piggly Wiggly
Post by: Retail Regents on July 12, 2023, 05:35:17 PM
Some pictures I took of the Watertown store, including some carts.

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