JANUARY 2014 • The Shelby Report of the Midwest
Schnucks Anniversary Special
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Schnucks now operates 13 stores under the Venture name: four in Kansas City, five in St. Louis, two in Metro East, one in Peoria and one in Springfield, Mo. –1974 Fire destroys the Hampton and Gravois store in St. Louis, but it will reopen in 1975. Schnucks leases Kansas City Venture stores to other food operators. –1975 Craig Schnuck is elected EVP.
1979
Scott Schnuck joins the company full-time as assistant sales manager. –1976 Schnucks and Walgreens join forces in a partnership to open a store in Cape Girardeau.
1976
–1977 Schnucks opens the first of its own combination food and drug stores at Bellefontaine. The nearby Bissell Hills and Hathaway stores close. Schnuck-Walgreens expands to Evansville, Ind., in November.
1983 Twenty-three soup and salad bars are installed in Schnucks stores.
–1979 Schnucks introduces the Nutri-Guide consumer information program to help customers identify fatmodified, calorie-controlled and sodium-restricted foods through color-coded shelf labels. –1979 Ed Schnuck is honored with the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat’s Man of the Year award and then receives its Humanitarian Award in 1986. He was the only civic leader in St. Louis to ever receive both honors. The company now has 52 supermarkets with four catalog showroom stores, a partnership with Walgreens, four super center stores and 5,400 associates. Schnucks begins to close Show Case stores. –1980 Three new super centers open, featuring the first installation of the UniCard check cashing approval system. Training and development and personnel departments relocate to Manchester and Kingshighway in St. Louis, which also is home to a 43,000-s.f. frozen food warehouse. Schnucks expands its Bridgeton warehouse from 170,000 s.f. to 288,000 s.f. Schnucks becomes 100 percent owner of SchnuckWalgreens stores. –1983 Schnucks opens a new 50,000-s.f. super center in the Harvester community. It features the company’s first soup and salad bar. Schnucks expands into the Paducah and Bowling Green, Ky., markets Schnucks establishes new labels on more than 150 grocery items and soon will have more than 600 items. –1984 Terry Schnuck joins Schnucks as chief legal counsel and secretary. The company remodels 14 stores and extends hours at 11 stores to midnight. Schnucks opens a super center in Fairview Heights, Ill., with the chain’s first video department and in-store bakery. Company opens a store in O’Fallon, Mo., in April. –1985 More than 100 Schnucks associates and managers work together to develop the company’s mission statement. Mission Statement We are committed to excellence as an innovative retailer of quality foods, drugs, consumable products and services. We focus on providing value through quality, variety, service, competitive pricing and friendliness. Our customers are our most important asset and must receive our total effort toward their satisfaction. We must achieve profits above the industry average to maintain leadership and provide for future growth. We shall employ and promote only the best people available, consistent with our organizational needs. We expect all associates to be competent and customer oriented. We will identify and recognize superior performance and will promote from within whenever practical. We will conduct our business by treating all customers, associates, suppliers and the community with honesty, fairness, respect and integrity.
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