Grocery

Imperfect Foods Corporate Office

Ben Chesler and several friends decided they wanted to find a way to get surplus and ugly produce from farmers to customer homes.

Imperfect Foods was founded in 2015. The company uses a subscription-based service that provides boxes of fresh produce to clients every other week.

While the produce may be misshapen or smaller than is considered normal, it must still be fresh, tasty, and nutritious.

Since its inception, the company has expanded products to include grains, dairy, eggs, and even canned goods.

Imperfect Foods has pledged to become a Net Zero business by 2030.

While consumers may be loathed to purchase produce that isn’t perfect looking at their supermarket, they will gladly pay more for produce that is labeled as “ugly”, one researcher noted in February 2021.

Imperfect Foods maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

Imperfect Foods

Ben Chesler and several friends decided they wanted to find a way to get surplus and ugly produce from farmers to customer homes.

Imperfect Foods was founded in 2015. The company uses a subscription-based service that provides boxes of fresh produce to clients every other week.

While the produce may be misshapen or smaller than is considered normal, it must still be fresh, tasty, and nutritious.

History

Since its inception, the company has expanded products to include grains, dairy, eggs, and even canned goods.

Imperfect Foods has pledged to become a Net Zero business by 2030.

Imperfect Foods maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

Sun Basket Corporate Office

Sun Basket is a meal subscription service that was founded in 2014. Justine Kelly, one of the founders, has been featured on Iron Chef America.

By 2015 the company had customers in 8 states.

In May 2016, the company raised $6.2 million in Series A funding and another $15 million in July 2017.

The company is known for serving customers who have strict dietary restrictions, offering paleo, gluten-free and vegetarian meal options, among others. It is one of the few meal kit companies that is USDA – Certified Organic. All ingredients are sourced from California farms.

In December 2020, Medical News Today listed Sun Basket as one of the best organic meal delivery services.

The global meal kit market is expected to explode between late 2020 and 2026.

Sun Basket maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

Sun Basket

Sun Basket is a meal subscription service that was founded in 2014. Justine Kelly, one of the founders, has been featured on Iron Chef America.

By 2015 the company had customers in 8 states.

In May 2016, the company raised $6.2 million in Series A funding and another $15 million in July 2017.

History

In December 2020, Medical News Today listed Sun Basket as one of the best organic meal delivery services.

The global meal kit market is expected to explode between late 2020 and 2026.

Sun Basket maintains a corporate office in San Francisco, California.

Lunds & Byerlys Supermarket Corporate Office

Lunds & Byerlys are upscale supermarkets operating in the metro St. Paul, Minnesota, area. These once were two stores, Lunds Supermarket and Byerlys Supermarket, until 1997, when Lunds acquired Byerlys.

As of 2017, there are 27 locations. Online delivery service was added in 2006, with customers offering a choice of home delivery or in-store pickup.

Lunds was originally founded in 1922 at Hove’s Market. Russell Lund Sr. purchased a few shares in the store’s cheese and cracker department. He later founded his own popcorn, which he added to his store department and purchased even more shares in the supermarket. In 1964, Lund owned the supermarket chain and changed to name to Lunds.

In February 2020, it was discovered that four Lunds & Byerlys locations that skimmers had been added to the credit/debit card machines. The police informed the company that these skimmers only worked with “swipe” transactions and did not work for cards that contained a chip.

Worries in the early part of 2020 about the coronavirus caused Lunds & Byerlys to step up their cleaning and sanitation efforts.

Lunds and Byerlys maintain a corporate office in Edina, Minnesota.

Lunds & Byerlys

As of 2017, there are 27 locations. Online delivery service was added in 2006, with customers offering a choice of home delivery or in-store pickup.

History

Worries in the early part of 2020 about the coronavirus caused Lunds & Byerlys to step up their cleaning and sanitation efforts.

Lunds and Byerlys maintain a corporate office in Edina, Minnesota.

Lidl Corporate Office

Josef Schwartz became a partner at Südfrüchte Großhandlung Lidl & Company. Schwartz had been a fruit wholesaler and he was the driving force behind making Lidl a general grocery store.

Josef’s son Deiter began to make his focus on discount markets, larger supermarkets, and cash and carry wholesale markets. Deiter Schwartz is also responsible for renaming the company Lidl in 1977.

Schwartz copied Aldi’s store concept. The company was ruthless in removing merchandise that didn’t sell and cutting costs by keeping stores small in size. This concept worked at the time, allowing Lidl to grow to 33 locations.

The company opened its first Lidl store in the UK in 1994.

In 2015, the company announced that it was opening a corporate office in the state of Virginia, USA. Stores were originally planned for the east coast, but by 2017, the company’s success allowed them to quickly open stores on the mid-Atlantic states.

Today, there are more than 10,000 locations, including the US, the UK, and in 28 European countries.

On February 1, 2020, Lidl announced a worldwide recall of Kania brand oregano after tests showed that most of the products contained high levels of an alkaloid that could lead to liver disease and cancer.

Headquarters for Lidl are located in Arlington, Virginia.

LIdl

Josef Schwartz became a partner at Südfrüchte Großhandlung Lidl & Company. Schwartz had been a fruit wholesaler and he was the driving force behind making Lidl a general grocery store.

Josef’s son Deiter began to make his focus on discount markets, larger supermarkets, and cash and carry wholesale markets. Deiter Schwartz is also responsible for renaming the company Lidl in 1977.

History

The company opened its first Lidl store in the UK in 1994.

Today, there are more than 10,000 locations, including the US, the UK, and in 28 European countries.

Headquarters for Lidl are located in Arlington, Virginia.

Boxed Corporate Office

Friends since childhood, Chieh Huang, Christopher Cheung, and William Fong, along with Jared Yaman, came up with the idea of starting a mobile app for wholesale products in bulk, without the costly membership fees such as Costco.

The company began its business in 2013 and began shipping out of Huang’s garage. In 2014, Express was launched. This service is an on-demand grocery delivery service that was available in New York, New Jersey, and Boston. Customers picked their groceries, including fresh fruit and vegetables, then chose a day and time for delivery.

n June 2015, Boxed launched its premium private brand Prince & Spring. Many customers wonder what is the difference between Amazon and Boxed or Costco and Boxed? CNBC comparison shopped Costco and Boxed in April 2019. After comparing prices on 26 basic items, CNBC says that Costco came out to be less expensive.