Save A Lot
Save-A-Lot is the 13th largest retail chain and 5th largest chain under a single banner with 1000 stores in the US and 4 Billion in sales. They are Headquarted in Earth City, Missouri. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of SuperValu.
Save-A-Lot was founded in 1977 and is a US knockoff of Aldi food stores. Both Aldi and Save-A-Lot compete for the same market. They claim that their products are 40%-60% cheaper than other stores. Their brands tend to be slightly more expensive than Aldi's, however the products tend to be of a higher quality.
Save-A-Lot's store format is a limited-selection store, which they call edited choice store. A limited-selection store is a store in which they carry only the most popular items and only in the most popular size. Save-A-lot stores have about 1,250 grocery items per store and restrict their store sizes to roughly 15,000 square feet (1,400 m²). They carry inferior goods, which they call an exclusive label brands, and some name-brand normal goods. The Save-A-Lot brands, none of which bear the Save-A-Lot name, tend to be of a middling to high quality and tend to be of a much higher quality than other store-named brands. The stores typically lack shelves and instead have the items in cut out cardboard shipping cases. You must bag your own groceries at Save-A-Lot.
Save-A-Lot purchased the Deal$ dollar store chain in 2002. Many Deal$ stores are located physically inside of Save-A-Lot stores in a format they call the Hybrid Store.