Let's see if Google is our friend?
Hmm, interesting history of Apache Plaza with a brief Reference. Nothing solid.
Hove's has some history with Lunds:
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Still found all over minnesota. Now a operating unit of Holiday Companies.
Red Owl stores were purchased in 1989 by SuperValu which started refitting the stores with the Cub name.
A nice history of the organization.
If there was, there isn't one now: www.safeway.com STORES (as of 6-19-04) U.S. Division Total Stores Denver 143 Dominick's 101 Eastern (Md., Va., DC, Genuardi's) 180 Northern California (includes Hawaii) 264 Phoenix 115 Portland 121 Texas (Randalls-Tom Thumb) 137 Seattle (includes Alaska) 207 Southern California (Vons) 327 Total U.S. 1,595 Canada Operating Areas: Alberta 86 Vancouver 75 Winnipeg 56 Total Canada 217 TOTAL U.S. & CANADA 1,812
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I believe it's Marcus, now deceased, who had the franchise rights to those stores. They were sold in 1995 to a group of executives who had managed the Big Boy Group.
The same Marcus that is now The Marcus Corporation and owns Marcus Theaters.
7 for 9... not too bad for old google.