{"id":110428,"date":"2015-04-28T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=110428"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:21:29","slug":"spartannash-aquiring-dans-supermarket-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/110428\/spartannash-aquiring-dans-supermarket-chain","title":{"rendered":"SpartanNash Acquiring Dan’s Supermarket Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan-based SpartanNash, formerly Nash Finch, has agreed to acquire\u00a0long-time local grocery chain Dan’s Supermarket<\/a>, the Bismarck Tribune reports<\/a>. SpartanNash previously purchased the two Dan’s locations in Dickinson.<\/p>\n

The transaction is expected to happen in June. For\u00a0now, the stores will continue operating under the Dan’s Supermarket banner,\u00a0unlike the previous Dickinson stores, which were re-branded under SpartanNash’s\u00a0Family Fare banner.<\/p>\n

The purchase ends a long history of local ownership for the grocer, which was founded in 1949\u00a0when Roy Rockstad & Eugene \u201cBus\u201d Leary purchased the local Piggly Wiggly and converted it to Bismarck Supervalu. The conversion will also likely\u00a0end\u00a0a long history of Supervalu-serviced local grocery stores, despite the major grocery distributor maintaining\u00a0a local warehouse.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Dan’s Supermarket purchased Bismarck’s\u00a0Central Market<\/a> in 2013, which was serviced by Nash Finch and operated under\u00a0Nash Finch’s\u00a0Econofoods banner\u00a0from 1988-1998. In addition to Econofoods,\u00a0Nash Finch also once operated a local warehouse-style grocery store at the corner of Broadway Avenue and 17th Street – the building now home to Conlin’s Furniture – called Warehouse Market.<\/p>\n

While not a locally owned company, SpartanNash’s\u00a0roots\u00a0do involve North Dakota, founded\u00a0when Fred Nash opened a small confectionery store in Devils Lake in 1885. After continued growth, the company moved its headquarters to Minneapolis in 1919, where it remained until merging with Spartan Stores in 2013.<\/p>\n

Only recently opening a new location at Sunrise Town Centre<\/a>,\u00a0Dan’s Supermarket maintains five locations in Bismarck and one in Mandan.<\/p>\n

More details are forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michigan-based SpartanNash, formerly Nash Finch, has agreed to acquire\u00a0long-time local grocery chain Dan’s Supermarket, the Bismarck Tribune reports. SpartanNash previously purchased the two Dan’s locations in Dickinson. The transaction is expected to happen in June. For\u00a0now, the stores will continue operating under the Dan’s Supermarket banner,\u00a0unlike the previous Dickinson stores, which were re-branded under SpartanNash’s\u00a0Family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,2409,216,364,519],"tags":[253,528,2194,1064],"class_list":["post-110428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-business-news","category-featured","category-home-page","category-mandan-news","tag-business","tag-dans-supermarket","tag-spartannash","tag-ticker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}