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The Shelby Report of the Midwest • JANUARY 2014
Schnucks Anniversary Special 1939
2014
–1986 Schnucks buys eight of Kroger’s stores as Kroger exits the St. Louis market after 75 years.
Schnucks sells its Kansas City stores, but continues to grow in St. Louis and ends 1997 with 86 stores and more than 15,000 associates.
Schnucks introduces a Chef’s Express carryout department at its new Woods Mill store in Ballwin.
1998– Schnucks buys three Logli stores in Rockford, Ill. It maintains the Logli name.
–1987 Craig Schnuck recruits brother Todd to join company.
Schnucks opens its 90th store at City Plaza.
Edward J. Schnuck dies at age 71.
1999– The company opens Schnucks Express at Gravois in Affton. It offers the new electronic shelf tag technology that replaces paper labels.
Schnucks opens markets in southern Illinois and marks a milestone as for the first time it serves one million customers in a week.
In November, a new store opens in Peoria, Ill., introducing a new store format with more than 87,000 s.f.
–1988 Schnucks brings coupon printers to stores and places them in checkouts.
By end of year Schnucks has 92 stores and employs 17,000 associates.
The company opens its first freestanding video rental store at Mason and Olive.
2001– Schnucks establishes its food safety team with the hiring of Director of Food Safety Dianna Pasley, a former environmental health supervisor for Jefferson County, Mo.
1997
–1989 Schnucks opens Market-Grill at its Des Peres store.
Scott Schnuck, left, and Leonard Adewunmi of St. Louis Grocery Express deliver the first Schnucks Home Shopping Club order to the home of St. Louisan Robin Hubbard on June 18, 1997. Schnucks changed the name of its Internet shopping service from Schnucks Home Shopping Club to Schnucks Express Connection in 1998 to emphasize the time-saving benefits of shopping online.
The company announces plans to expand to central Illinois.
Self checkouts are first tested at the Dorsett store in St. Louis.
Schnucks also makes plans to build a new corporate office at Page and Lindbergh in St. Louis.
Schnucks earns recognition as “Company of the Year” by the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
Craig and Scott Schnuck become CEO and EVP, respectively.
2002–
Schnucks closes its Hampton Village and Beverly Hills stores in April.
Schnucks closes its Decatur, Ill., store.
The company opens a store in west Evansville. It is the third Indiana location Schnucks has opened.
Terry Schnuck resigns as secretary and general counsel to pursue a career in Broadway production. 2002
The company wraps up 1989 with 57 Schnucks locations, 31 of which are super centers. Schnucks now employs 12,000 associates.
In May, Schnucks expands into Wisconsin with the opening of the fifth Logli Supermarket in Janesville.
–1990 Schnucks opens stores in Bloomington and Champaign as well as four new stores in St. Louis.
Schnucks closes its 28,000-s.f. store in Highland, Ill. Schnucks teams with Jackie Joyner-Kersee to hold the first of many Get Fit With Five bridge runs across the Martin Luther King Jr. bridge.
The company moves into its new corporate offices. Don Schnuck is honored as St. Louis’ Man of the Year.
Schnucks announces plans to build three new stores in the Mid-South division: Collierville, Stonebridge and a Germantown replacement in Tennessee.
–1991 Don Schnuck passes.
2003– President George W. Bush personally recognizes Schnucks Employment Supervisor Dezzie Houston for her efforts in the Missouri Mentoring Partnership.
Schnucks opens stores again in Kansas City. –1992 The Schnucks-brand product line is expanded to 1,275 products. The company opens four locations in Indiana and expands further in Kansas City. –1993 A new 60,000-s.f. store in Ladue opens in a record 115 days.
2002 In June, Schnucks expands into Tennessee and Mississippi when the company acquires the 12-store Seessel’s division of supermarkets from Albertson’s Inc. of Boise, Idaho, creating the new Schnucks Mid-South division.
Schnucks closes its Riverdale store in Memphis. Schnucks closes its Fenton, Mo., store. After failing to reach an agreement with the landlord, Schnucks closes its Clayton, Mo. store. The store originally opened in 1953. Schnucks acquired it from Bettendorf-Rapp in 1970. Schnucks’ Desoto, Mo., store is ravaged by a tornado and closes for 10 days.
–1994 DESCO (Don and Ed Schnuck Co.) is created. It provides development and contracting services. Mark Schnuck is named president.
Schnucks Mid-South division stores survive an outage that knocks out power at eight of 11 stores. Schnucks, Dierbergs and Shop ‘n Save survive a 25-day work stoppage by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 655.
–1995 Schnucks buys National Tea Co.’s grocery store operations. It is the largest supermarket acquisition of 1995. The company grows from 64 stores to 113.
2004– In January, Schnucks announces the building of its first Iowa store. It will be in Bettendorf (one of the Quad Cities) and open in early 2005.
Schnucks converts to computerized checkouts. One-hour photos are added to 23 stores as well as cellular phone and pager branches.
Schnucks closes the Delmar/Kingshighway store in north St. Louis.
By end of year, the company employs 17,800 associates.
Schnucks opens its Lake Saint Louis, Mo., store.
–1996 Schnucks sells 23 stores to Family Co. of America, reducing the company to 90 stores with 16,505 associates.
Schnucks opens a store in Collierville, Tenn. Loughborough and Florissant pharmacies receive certification from the American Diabetes Association.
Nancy Schnuck Diemer joins the company as director of community affairs.
Schnucks announces the closure of its East St. Louis, Ill., store, but an agreement eventually is reached in September 2005 to keep it open for the community.
Schnucks completes facility upgrades and equipment changes totaling $2.3 million at its new 88,000-s.f. Nancy Ann Bakery Plant.
Schnucks opens its Stonebridge store in Memphis, Tenn.
The company begins upgrading its computers to prevent Y2K problems.
Schnucks opens a Germantown, Tenn., replacement store.
The company debuts www.schnucks.com. –1997 Schnucks begins offering online shopping complete with delivery. It is the area’s first full-scope, Internetbased grocery shopping service.
Schnucks Mid-States Dairy receives top honors at both the Missouri and Illinois state fairs, including “Best of Show” at the Missouri fair for Schnucks Fat Free Cottage Cheese.
2005
2005– On May 24, the company opens Schnucks Bettendorf Marketplace, its first store in Iowa.
On April 5, Schnucks opens Schnucks Cottleville Marketplace, a more customer friendly and modernized variation of the company’s now famous Marketplace design. The 63,000-s.f. store features a brand new décor package.
Schnucks closes its last Station restaurant when the