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NJ congressman to social media: Behave or pay up



NJ CONGRESSMAN TO SOCIAL MEDIA: BEHAVE OR PAY UP


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⚫ NEW LEGISLATION WILL DEMAND SPECIFIC REPORTS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES


⚫ OFFICIALS WANT TIKTOK TO REGISTER AS A FOREIGN AGENT


⚫ THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE SAYS THIS IS UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR THE U.S.

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Social media is a superspreader of hate and misinformation, according to
advocacy groups and federal officials that are looking to create more
accountability in the wake of Hamas's attacks on Israel in October.

Along with colleagues from both sides of the political aisle, U.S. Rep. Josh
Gottheimer, D.N.J. 5th District, announced on Wednesday that legislation will be
introduced that aims to rein in lies and terror that's spread online through
platforms such as TikTok.

The STOP HATE Act requires social media companies to release detailed reports of
violations to their terms of service, such as using their platforms for
terrorist purposes. Those reports would have to include information on how
companies are addressing such violations.

"Every day the companies fail to comply will result in a $5 million fine,"
Gottheimer said during a Zoom call with reporters.

The legislation also requires the Director of National Intelligence to provide a
report on the use of social media by terrorist organizations.


U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (top left) hosts a Zoom press conference to announce
legislation targeting social media companies. (Rep. Gottheimer's Office)


Officials claim social media organizations have failed to stop the spread of
disinformation related to the Hamas-Israel conflict. In October, U.S. Rep Frank
Pallone, D-N.J. 6th District, joined officials in Edison to demand that social
media companies keep disturbing and deliberately false information off of their
platforms.

In addition to the newly announced legislation, Gottheimer and his colleagues
are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to require TikTok to register as a
foreign agent.

"China is using TikTok as a propaganda machine to influence Americans and
collect our data," Gottheimer said.

Earlier this year, New Jersey made the move to ban the video sharing app from
all state government devices, such as phones and tablets.

In 2022, TikTok agreed to a class action settlement for harvesting personal
information and data from U.S. users without their consent. In 2019 the Federal
Trade Commission fined TikTok for knowingly collecting the names, email
addresses, pictures and locations of children under the age of 13 without
parental consent.

Since the attacks by Hamas, the Anti-Defamation League has seen a "tsunami of
antisemitism, hate, and disinformation," mostly through social media and
messaging platforms, according to CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

"We've been fighting antisemitism and all forms of bigotry for 110 years, and
yet we have literally never seen a moment like this in the United States,"
Greenblatt said.

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LOOK: BEST COUNTIES TO RAISE A FAMILY IN NEW JERSEY

Stacker compiled a list of the best counties to raise a family in New Jersey.

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#21. Cumberland County, New Jersey

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#21. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 154,921
- Median home value: $168,900 (66% own)
- Median rent: $1,131 (34% own)
- Median household income: $58,397
- Top public schools: Johnstone School (grade A minus), Cumberland County
Technical Education Center (grade A minus), Morris Goodwin School (grade B+)
- Top private schools: Cumberland Christian School (grade B+), Bishop Schad
Regional School (grade unavailable), Woodland Country Day School (grade
unavailable)
- Top places to live: Hopewell Township (grade B), Stow Creek Township (grade B
minus), Vineland (grade B minus)


#20. Salem County, New Jersey

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#20. SALEM COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 64,752
- Median home value: $187,400 (71% own)
- Median rent: $1,064 (29% own)
- Median household income: $67,898
- Top public schools: Oldmans Township School (grade A minus), Upper Pittsgrove
School (grade B+), Mary S. Shoemaker School (grade B+)
- Top private schools: Ranch Hope Strang School (grade unavailable)
- Top places to live: Woodstown (grade A minus), Mannington Township (grade B+),
Pilesgrove Township (grade B)


#19. Ocean County, New Jersey

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#19. OCEAN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 630,057
- Median home value: $298,800 (80% own)
- Median rent: $1,538 (20% own)
- Median household income: $76,644
- Top public schools: Marine Academy of Technology & Environmental Science
(grade A+), Island Heights Elementary School (grade A), Lavallette Elementary
School (grade A)
- Top private schools: Donovan Catholic High School (grade A minus), Calvary
Academy (grade A minus), Ocean County Christian Academy (grade A)
- Top places to live: Bay Head (grade A), Point Pleasant Beach (grade A),
Lavallette (grade A)



#18. Essex County, New Jersey

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#18. ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 852,720
- Median home value: $414,000 (45% own)
- Median rent: $1,279 (55% own)
- Median household income: $67,826
- Top public schools: Millburn High School (grade A+), Livingston Senior High
School (grade A+), Washington School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: Newark Academy (grade A+), Montclair Kimberley Academy
(grade A+), Golda Och Academy (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Upper Montclair (grade A+), Essex Fells (grade A+), Short
Hills (grade A+)


#17. Passaic County, New Jersey

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#17. PASSAIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 521,067
- Median home value: $363,700 (52% own)
- Median rent: $1,367 (48% own)
- Median household income: $78,386
- Top public schools: Little Falls School No. 3 (grade A), Wayne Hills High
School (grade A), Little Falls School No. 1 (grade A)
- Top private schools: Pioneer Academy (grade A+), Hawthorne Christian Academy
(grade A+), Mary Help of Christians Academy (grade A)
- Top places to live: Wayne Township (grade A), Singac (grade A), Ringwood
(grade A)


#16. Warren County, New Jersey

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#16. WARREN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 109,354
- Median home value: $272,500 (72% own)
- Median rent: $1,177 (28% own)
- Median household income: $85,163
- Top public schools: Stewartsville Middle School (grade A minus), Phillipsburg
High School (grade B+), Hope Township Elementary School (grade B+)
- Top private schools: Blair Academy (grade A+), Sts. Philip & James School
(grade unavailable), Busy Bees Learning Center (grade unavailable)
- Top places to live: Panther Valley (grade A minus), Hackettstown (grade B),
Phillipsburg (grade B)



#15. Cape May County, New Jersey

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#15. CAPE MAY COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 95,488
- Median home value: $318,600 (78% own)
- Median rent: $1,197 (22% own)
- Median household income: $76,237
- Top public schools: Stone Harbor Elementary School (grade A minus), Ocean City
Primary School (grade A minus), Upper Township Elementary School (grade A minus)
- Top private schools: Cape Christian Academy (grade B), Wildwood Catholic
Academy (grade unavailable), Bishop McHugh Regional Catholic School (grade
unavailable)
- Top places to live: Cape May (grade A), Avalon (grade A), Ocean City (grade A)


#14. Sussex County, New Jersey

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#14. SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 144,492
- Median home value: $282,700 (84% own)
- Median rent: $1,387 (16% own)
- Median household income: $101,645
- Top public schools: Green Hills School (grade A), Alpine School (grade A),
Helen Morgan School (grade A minus)
- Top private schools: Elite Preparatory Academy (grade A+), Pope John XXIII
Regional High School (grade A), Veritas Christian Academy (grade B)
- Top places to live: Andover Township (grade A minus), Lake Mohawk (grade A
minus), Fredon Township (grade B+)


#13. Atlantic County, New Jersey

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#13. ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 273,865
- Median home value: $222,600 (67% own)
- Median rent: $1,175 (33% own)
- Median household income: $66,473
- Top public schools: Mainland Regional High School (grade A), Egg Harbor
Township High School (grade A), William H. Ross III Intermediate School (grade
A)
- Top private schools: St. Augustine Preparatory School (grade A), Holy Spirit
High School (grade A minus), The Pilgrim Academy (grade B+)
- Top places to live: Linwood (grade A), Northfield (grade A), Margate City
(grade A)



#12. Hudson County, New Jersey

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#12. HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 713,264
- Median home value: $424,700 (32% own)
- Median rent: $1,552 (68% own)
- Median household income: $79,795
- Top public schools: Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School (grade A+), High
Tech High School (grade A+), Jersey City Global Charter School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: The Hudson School (grade A+), Saint Peter's Prep (grade
A+), St. Dominic Academy (grade A)
- Top places to live: Hoboken (grade A+), Waterfront (grade A+), Secaucus (grade
A+)


#11. Camden County, New Jersey

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#11. CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 521,194
- Median home value: $211,400 (65% own)
- Median rent: $1,169 (35% own)
- Median household income: $75,485
- Top public schools: Haddonfield Memorial High School (grade A+), Cherry Hill
High School East (grade A), Elizabeth Haddon Elementary School (grade A)
- Top private schools: Bishop Eustace Preparatory School (grade A), The King's
Christian School (grade A minus), Camden Catholic High School (grade A minus)
- Top places to live: Springdale (grade A+), Greentree (grade A+), Haddonfield
(grade A+)


#10. Gloucester County, New Jersey

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#10. GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 300,821
- Median home value: $232,800 (80% own)
- Median rent: $1,301 (20% own)
- Median household income: $93,208
- Top public schools: Gloucester County Institute of Technology (grade A minus),
Kingsway Regional High School (grade A minus), Sewell School (grade A minus)
- Top private schools: Our Lady of Mercy Academy (grade A), Gloucester County
Christian School (grade B), Friends School (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Richwood (grade A), Turnersville (grade A), Mullica Hill
(grade A)



#9. Union County, New Jersey

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#9. UNION COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 571,963
- Median home value: $393,900 (58% own)
- Median rent: $1,407 (42% own)
- Median household income: $87,369
- Top public schools: Union County Magnet High School (grade A+), Academy for
Information Technology (grade A+), Academy for Allied Health Science (grade A+)
- Top private schools: Kent Place School (grade A+), Oak Knoll School of the
Holy Child - Upper School (grade A+), Oratory Preparatory School (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Berkeley Heights Township (grade A+), Fanwood (grade A+),
New Providence (grade A+)


#8. Burlington County, New Jersey

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#8. BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 460,102
- Median home value: $270,000 (76% own)
- Median rent: $1,444 (24% own)
- Median household income: $95,935
- Top public schools: Moorestown High School (grade A+), South Valley Elementary
School (grade A+), George C. Baker Elementary School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: Moorestown Friends School (grade A+), Doane Academy
(grade A+), Holy Cross Preparatory Academy (grade A minus)
- Top places to live: Moorestown Township (grade A+), Chesterfield Township
(grade A), Medford Township (grade A)


#7. Monmouth County, New Jersey

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#7. MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 642,160
- Median home value: $454,000 (75% own)
- Median rent: $1,523 (25% own)
- Median household income: $110,356
- Top public schools: High Technology High School (grade A+), Biotechnology High
School (grade A+), Academy of Allied Health & Science (grade A+)
- Top private schools: Ranney School (grade A+), Trinity Hall (grade A),
Christian Brothers Academy (grade A)
- Top places to live: Fair Haven (grade A+), Rumson (grade A+), Little Silver
(grade A+)



#6. Hunterdon County, New Jersey

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#6. HUNTERDON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 128,807
- Median home value: $431,600 (84% own)
- Median rent: $1,492 (16% own)
- Median household income: $123,373
- Top public schools: Hunterdon Central Regional High School District (grade A),
East Amwell Township (grade A), North Hunterdon High School (grade A)
- Top private schools: Immaculate Conception School (grade A minus), Foundations
Preschool (grade unavailable), Acorn Montessori School (grade unavailable)
- Top places to live: Raritan Township (grade A+), Delaware Township (grade A),
Bethlehem Township (grade A)


#5. Mercer County, New Jersey

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#5. MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 384,951
- Median home value: $295,400 (63% own)
- Median rent: $1,361 (37% own)
- Median household income: $85,687
- Top public schools: Princeton High School (grade A+), West Windsor-Plainsboro
High School South (grade A+), Princeton Charter School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: Princeton International School of Math and Science (grade
A+), The Lawrenceville School (grade A+), The Peddie School (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Princeton Junction (grade A+), Princeton (grade A+),
Pennington (grade A+)


#4. Morris County, New Jersey

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#4. MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 508,347
- Median home value: $474,500 (74% own)
- Median rent: $1,713 (26% own)
- Median household income: $123,727
- Top public schools: The Academy for Mathematics, Science & Engineering (grade
A+), Morris County School of Technology (grade A+), West Morris Mendham High
School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: Delbarton School (grade A+), Morristown Beard School
(grade A+), Gill St. Bernard's School (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Mountain Lakes (grade A+), Chatham Township (grade A+),
Morris Township (grade A+)



#3. Middlesex County, New Jersey

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#3. MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 858,770
- Median home value: $362,900 (64% own)
- Median rent: $1,612 (36% own)
- Median household income: $96,883
- Top public schools: Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics, &
Engineering Technologies (grade A+), West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
(grade A+), J.P. Stevens High School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: The Wardlaw + Hartridge School (grade A+), The
Wilberforce School (grade A+), Overlake Preparatory Academy (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Plainsboro Center (grade A+), Metuchen (grade A+),
Monmouth Junction (grade A+)


#2. Bergen County, New Jersey

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#2. BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 952,979
- Median home value: $489,600 (65% own)
- Median rent: $1,637 (35% own)
- Median household income: $109,497
- Top public schools: Bergen County Academies (grade A+), Bergen County
Technical High School - Teterboro (grade A+), Tenafly High School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: Dwight-Englewood School (grade A+), Primoris Academy
(grade A+), Saddle River Day School (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Ho-Ho-Kus (grade A+), Ridgewood (grade A+), River Edge
(grade A+)


#1. Somerset County, New Jersey

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#1. SOMERSET COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

- Population: 343,950
- Median home value: $444,700 (76% own)
- Median rent: $1,722 (24% own)
- Median household income: $121,695
- Top public schools: Ridge High School (grade A+), Montgomery High School
(grade A+), Bridgewater-Raritan High School (grade A+)
- Top private schools: The Pingry School (grade A+), Rutgers Preparatory School
(grade A+), Mount Saint Mary Academy (grade A+)
- Top places to live: Martinsville (grade A+), Montgomery Township (grade A+),
Bernardsville (grade A+)


MOST POPULAR GROCERY STORES IN AMERICA

The most popular grocery stores in America, from corporate chains to
family-owned enterprises. Stacker ranked them using consumer ratings sourced
from YouGov polls.

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#40. BevMo!

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#40. BEVMO!

- Popularity rating: 26%
- Fame rating: 42% (Rank: #40)

BevMo! is a West Coast beverage retailer with more than 160 stores in
California, Washington, and Arizona, and an extensive online business. Founded
in 1994 in the San Francisco Bay Area, it was originally Beverages and More! The
stores are big, with wide aisles and enormous selections.


#39. WinCo Foods

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#39. WINCO FOODS

- Popularity rating: 26%
- Fame rating: 45% (Rank: #34)

Across the western U.S., WinCo Foods has more than 125 stores, the newest in
Billings and Helena, Montana. The chain started in 1967 in Boise, Idaho, with a
warehouse-style grocery called Waremart. In its supermarkets in the 1970s,
customers used red grease pencils to write the prices on their items. Company
employees bought a controlling share of the business in 1985. The name is short
for Winning Company.


#38. Harris Teeter

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#38. HARRIS TEETER

- Popularity rating: 27%
- Fame rating: 47% (Rank: #32)

Grocers W.T. Harris and Willis Teeter founded Harris Teeter in 1960 in North
Carolina. Today, it is a subsidiary of The Kroger Co., with more than 230 stores
and 14 fuel centers in the southeastern U.S. The stores were criticized for
refusing to require face masks against COVID-19, prompting some employees to
quit. Online petitions were circulated asking stores to comply with the North
Carolina governor's order to wear masks.



#37. Hannaford

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#37. HANNAFORD

- Popularity rating: 27%
- Fame rating: 45% (Rank: #34)

Hannaford supermarkets started in 1883 in Portland, Maine, where the Hannaford
brothers sold fresh produce from a horse-drawn cart. The company expanded to
more than 180 stores in New England, New York, and the Southeast. It was
acquired in 2000 by Belgium's Delhaize Group, now called Ahold Delhaize.


#36. Central Market

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#36. CENTRAL MARKET

- Popularity rating: 27%
- Fame rating: 42% (Rank: #40)

First opening in Austin in 1994, Central Market stores are known for their vast
selections and in-house dining. They also have live music and Texas two-step
dance parties.


#35. 99 Ranch Market

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#35. 99 RANCH MARKET

- Popularity rating: 28%
- Fame rating: 41% (Rank: #42)

In 1984, 99 Ranch Market opened its first store in the Little Saigon
neighborhood of Westminster, California, an Orange County town. It is family
owned and now the largest Asian supermarket chain in the country, with more than
50 stores, mostly in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Texas, but also
in New Jersey.



#34. Cub (supermarket)

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#34. CUB (SUPERMARKET)

- Popularity rating: 28%
- Fame rating: 46% (Rank: #33)

The name of Cub, a Midwestern supermarket chain, originally stood for Consumers
United for Buying. It is known for no-frills shopping, where customers often bag
their own groceries. It changed its name from Cub Foods to Cub in 2018.


#33. Jewel-Osco

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#33. JEWEL-OSCO

- Popularity rating: 28%
- Fame rating: 49% (Rank: #29)

The Midwest's Jewel-Osco stores originated in 1899, with two brothers-in-law
selling coffee and tea door to door from a horse-drawn wagon. The Jewel Tea Co.
expanded to acquire grocery stores in the Chicago area and started a mail-order
catalog business as well. It bought Osco Drugs in the 1960s. Now owned by
Albertsons, Jewel-Osco has more than 180 stores in Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana.


#32. Stater Bros. Markets

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#32. STATER BROS. MARKETS

- Popularity rating: 28%
- Fame rating: 44% (Rank: #37)

Stater Bros. Markets began with a small grocery store in Yucaipa, California,
which twin brothers Cleo and Leo bought during the Great Depression. Half of the
$600 down payment came from the owner of a rival grocery store across the
street. By 1939, the brothers opened an additional four stores in San Bernardino
County. During World War II, their parents operated the markets while the
brothers served as pilots in the Army Air Corps. They sold their interests in
the company in 1968. Today, there are 170 supermarkets in seven California
counties, with about 18,000 employees and more than $4 billion in annual sales.



#31. Wild Oats

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#31. WILD OATS

- Popularity rating: 29%
- Fame rating: 51% (Rank: #28)

Wild Oats is a member-owned cooperative grocery based in Williamstown,
Massachusetts. It started as a buying club in 1975 and opened its store in 1982
with 100 members. It has a policy of returning its surplus revenue to
member-owners, who get annual rebates based on how much they spend throughout
the year.


#30. Grocery Outlet

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#30. GROCERY OUTLET

- Popularity rating: 29%
- Fame rating: 45% (Rank: #34)

Founder Jim Read sold surplus military food at discount prices in the first
store he opened in San Francisco in 1946. Today, the chain—based in Emeryville,
California—has more than 400 stores across the country and draws over 1.5
million shoppers each week. Since 1973, some stores have been run by locally
based independent operators. The company went public in 2019 and celebrated its
400th store in 2021, which also was its 75th anniversary.


#29. Casey's

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#29. CASEY'S

- Popularity rating: 29%
- Fame rating: 49% (Rank: #29)

Casey's has more than 2,000 convenience stores in the Midwest. Founder Donald
Lamberti opened his first convenience store in Boone, Iowa, in 1968, naming it
after the initials of a friend, Kurvin C. Fish. Lamberti opted to move into
small communities, and to this day, more than half the stores are located in
places with fewer than 5,000 residents. With the outbreak of the coronavirus,
Casey's expanded delivery services at more than half of its stores.



#28. Giant

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#28. GIANT

- Popularity rating: 30%
- Fame rating: 49% (Rank: #29)

Giant stores are located in Delaware, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland;
the company is headquartered in Landover, Maryland. The first store opened in
Washington in 1936. The company's founders were Nehemiah Myer Cohen, an
immigrant from Palestine, and his partners Samuel and Jacob Lehrman. In the
1970s, the company implemented computer-aided checkout and price scanners in its
stores.


#27. Stop & Shop

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#27. STOP & SHOP

- Popularity rating: 31%
- Fame rating: 52% (Rank: #27)

Located in New England and the Northeast, Stop & Shop traces its roots to the
Rabinovitz family, who opened their Economy Grocery Store in Somerville,
Massachusetts, in 1914. The company's early stores were pioneers in
self-service, and its name became Stop & Shop in 1947. Today, its parent company
is Ahold Delhaize, based in the Netherlands.


#26. A&P

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#26. A&P

- Popularity rating: 32%
- Fame rating: 64% (Rank: #19)

Founded in New York City in 1859, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
opened its first store in 1912. Decades later, with almost 16,000 stores, it was
the world's largest retail grocery company. Its popular brands included Jane
Parker baked goods and Eight O'Clock Coffee. But industry analysts said the
grocery giant was slow to respond to a changing market and changing tastes and
began to look outdated as competitors outpaced it. A&P filed for bankruptcy a
second and final time in 2015.



#25. H-E-B

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#25. H-E-B

- Popularity rating: 32%
- Fame rating: 56% (Rank: #24)

Florence Butt opened the first C.C. Butt store in 1905 in Kerrville, Texas, and
her son Howard E. Butt opened a second store in 1926. The first store under the
name H-E-B opened in San Antonio in 1942. In the 1950s, the company expanded
into supermarkets, consolidating butchers, fish markets, bakeries, and
pharmacies into its stores, and in 1997, it expanded into northern Mexico, with
its first store in Monterrey.


#24. Fresh & Easy

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#24. FRESH & EASY

- Popularity rating: 33%
- Fame rating: 59% (Rank: #21)

Fresh & Easy stores were an effort by British retail giant Tesco to break into
the U.S. market, launching in 2007 in several Western states. Fresh & Easy went
into bankruptcy protection in 2013, when dozens of its stores were sold to
Yucaipa Companies. Fresh & Easy went into bankruptcy protection again in 2015,
and the stores closed.


#23. ShopRite

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#23. SHOPRITE

- Popularity rating: 33%
- Fame rating: 58% (Rank: #23)

ShopRite is a retailer-owned cooperative of stores in New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, and Maryland. The cooperative, Wakefern
Food Corp., dates back to 1946, when a group of grocers organized to buy
products collectively in large quantities to get better prices. Today, Wakefern,
consisting of more than 40 grocers that run about 190 supermarkets in the
region, is the nation's largest retailer-owned cooperative.



#22. Giant Eagle

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#22. GIANT EAGLE

- Popularity rating: 33%
- Fame rating: 54% (Rank: #25)

Five families started Giant Eagle in the 1930s and built a supermarket chain,
which also includes OK Grocery food stores located in and around Pittsburgh. It
opened Iggle Video rental locations in its stores in the 1980s and later
expanded into full-service dining at its newest Market District stores.


#21. Shop 'n Save

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#21. SHOP 'N SAVE

- Popularity rating: 34%
- Fame rating: 59% (Rank: #21)

More than 90 Shop 'n Save stores are independently owned and operated in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, and New York. Its Midwestern stores
were liquidated by parent company SuperValu in 2018 after it could not find
buyers.


#20. Food 4 Less

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#20. FOOD 4 LESS

- Popularity rating: 34%
- Fame rating: 54% (Rank: #25)

Food 4 Less is a subsidiary of The Kroger Co. It has 129 warehouse-style
supermarkets in California, Illinois, and Indiana. Customers bag their own
groceries, which the company says is a way to keep costs down.



#19. IGA

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#19. IGA

- Popularity rating: 37%
- Fame rating: 65% (Rank: #17)

The Independent Grocers Alliance, or IGA, is an international network of
supermarkets first organized in 1926 by family-owned groceries that grouped
together to become more competitive in their purchasing and marketing but keep
their local identities. It has more than 1,100 stores in nearly all U.S. states
and about 5,000 in more than 30 other countries. Benefits to IGA members,
typically located in small towns, are volume buying and advertising, and the
alliance makes some 2,300 private-label IGA brand products.


#18. Sprouts Farmers Market

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#18. SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET

- Popularity rating: 38%
- Fame rating: 64% (Rank: #19)

The first Sprouts opened in Chandler, Arizona, in 2002, with a focus on fresh
and organic products, and the company grew quickly. It went public in 2013 and
started opening stores in the Southeast, mid-Atlantic, and Northwest. It now has
more than 340 stores in 22 states.


#17. Food Lion

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#17. FOOD LION

- Popularity rating: 39%
- Fame rating: 72% (Rank: #13)

Food Lion is located in 10 mid-Atlantic and southeastern states. It began in
Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1957, and has grown to more than 1,000 grocery
stores.

Food Lion was at the center of a landmark legal case in the 1990s, when two ABC
News producers submitted false job applications and were hired at its stores in
North and South Carolina. They secretly filmed practices in the meat
departments, and ABC's "Primetime Live" broadcast a segment claiming Food Lion's
meat handling was filthy and unsafe.

Food Lion sued ABC successfully on grounds that the filming was illegal, but a
federal appeals court determined Food Lion had not been harmed and dismissed
most of the damages.



#16. Wegmans

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#16. WEGMANS

- Popularity rating: 39%
- Fame rating: 65% (Rank: #17)

Privately owned, Wegmans has more than 100 supermarkets in New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other New England and mid-Atlantic states. The
stores are known for being huge and laid out like outdoor markets. The Wegman
family started the company in 1916 in upstate New York with the Rochester Fruit
& Vegetable Company.


#15. Meijer

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#15. MEIJER

- Popularity rating: 39%
- Fame rating: 68% (Rank: #15)

Meijer is family owned and has more than 200 stores in Michigan, Wisconsin,
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. In the 1960s, it developed the concept of
supercenter stores carrying not only groceries but auto supplies, clothing, home
goods, and banking services.


#14. Save-A-Lot

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#14. SAVE-A-LOT

- Popularity rating: 40%
- Fame rating: 72% (Rank: #13)

Save-A-Lot is a franchise-style grocery chain with more than 1,300 stores. Its
first store opened in Cahokia, Illinois, in 1977, using what is known as a
"hard-discount model." A hard-discount store typically sells a small array of
products in a small venue, with low staffing and often in low-income areas. The
product choices are limited to the most commonly purchased goods and the store's
own brands. The stores target low- and fixed-income consumers who need ready
access to grocery shopping in less affluent neighborhoods.



#13. Fresh Market

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#13. FRESH MARKET

- Popularity rating: 41%
- Fame rating: 66% (Rank: #16)

Following a trip to Europe, Fresh Market founders Ray and Beverly Berry sought
to replicate the feel of an open food market with specialized products and
service, a butcher, and flower stands, rather than the warehouse-style
supermarkets common in the U.S. They opened their first store in Greensboro,
North Carolina, in 1982. Today, Fresh Market has some 159 stores in 22 states.
The company went private in 2016, with its purchase by Apollo Global Management.


#12. Amazon Fresh

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#12. AMAZON FRESH

- Popularity rating: 43%
- Fame rating: 83% (Rank: #9)

Amazon Fresh is the grocery-delivery service started in 2007 by the online
giant. Customers order online, and deliveries are scheduled in two-hour windows.
Contact-free delivery of packages left unattended at the customer's door was
developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.


#11. Publix

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#11. PUBLIX

- Popularity rating: 44%
- Fame rating: 80% (Rank: #11)

Publix has more than 1,200 stores, mostly in Florida, Georgia, and other
southeastern states. Founder George Jenkins started as a stock clerk and then a
manager at Piggly Wiggly before opening his own store in Winter Haven, Florida,
in 1930.



#10. Albertsons

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#10. ALBERTSONS

- Popularity rating: 46%
- Fame rating: 75% (Rank: #12)

According to the company, Joe Albertson scraped together his savings and a loan
from his wife's Aunt Bertie to open the first Albertsons store in Boise, Idaho,
in 1939. The grocery giant, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange in
June 2020, operates in 34 states with the store brands of Albertsons, Acme,
Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Carrs, and more.


#9. Piggly Wiggly

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#9. PIGGLY WIGGLY

- Popularity rating: 46%
- Fame rating: 83% (Rank: #9)

Piggly Wiggly started out in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, where it was the
nation's first self-service grocery store, cutting costs by replacing the
traditional model of clerks who would fetch goods from shelves for customers.
The format was franchised to grocery store operators, largely in the Southeast;
today, more than 530 Piggly Wigglys are located in 17 states. The company says
the origin of its unusual name is unknown. According to one story, founder
Clarence Saunders said he chose the name for the very reason that people would
ask about it.


#8. Circle K

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#8. CIRCLE K

- Popularity rating: 48%
- Fame rating: 86% (Rank: #7)

The convenience store chain has its roots in El Paso, Texas, where Fred Hervey
bought three Kay's Food Stores in 1951 and then expanded into Arizona and New
Mexico. There were 1,000 stores across the United States by 1975, with others in
Japan under a licensing agreement beginning in 1979. Sales hit $1 billion by
1984. The chain was bought by the Canadian Alimentation Couche-Tard in 2003 and
is now in more than 20 countries.



#7. Safeway

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#7. SAFEWAY

- Popularity rating: 49%
- Fame rating: 87% (Rank: #6)

The grocery giant started in 1915 in American Falls, Idaho, and by 1928, Safeway
was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2014, Albertsons bought Safeway in
a $9.4 billion deal. There are now about 900 Safeway locations in 17 states and
Washington D.C.


#6. Winn-Dixie

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#6. WINN-DIXIE

- Popularity rating: 50%
- Fame rating: 86% (Rank: #7)

The original Winn-Dixie founders started with a grocery store in 1913 in Idaho
before moving to the southeast, where they opened a store in 1925 in Miami. The
company bought up dozens of stores in the region and became Winn-Dixie in 1955.
It ran into financial difficulties and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2005.
Today, about 500 Winn-Dixie stores can be found throughout the Southeast—in
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida.


#5. Whole Foods Market

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#5. WHOLE FOODS MARKET

- Popularity rating: 56%
- Fame rating: 96% (Rank: #2)

The first Whole Foods Market opened in Austin, Texas, in 1980. Now, 40 years
later, it has more than 500 stores specializing in natural and organic products.
In 2017, Amazon bought Whole Foods in a $13.7 billion cash deal. Under Amazon's
ownership, some prices dropped, but research in 2019 found Whole Foods had the
highest grocery chain prices in eight U.S. metropolitan areas.



#4. Kroger

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#4. KROGER

- Popularity rating: 60%
- Fame rating: 94% (Rank: #4)

With annual sales of more than $121 billion and almost 2,800 stores, Kroger is a
retail grocery giant. The first Kroger store, which opened in 1883 in
Cincinnati, pioneered baking its own bread and making some of its own products.
In the 1970s, the grocery retailer pioneered using electronic scanners.


#3. Aldi

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#3. ALDI

- Popularity rating: 62%
- Fame rating: 90% (Rank: #5)

More than 1,900 Aldi stores are located in 36 U.S. states. Nearly all—more than
90%—of the products they sell are Aldi brands, a system that is designed to
lower prices with its lower procurement costs. Aldi charges a 25-cent deposit
for use of its grocery carts so customers will return them to the cart corral.


#2. Trader Joe's

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#2. TRADER JOE'S

- Popularity rating: 63%
- Fame rating: 96% (Rank: #2)

Trader Joe's is known for its low-cost, private-label products, which started
when it introduced its own granola in 1972. In 2002, it added Charles Shaw
wines, which quickly earned the nickname "Two Buck Chuck." The 500-plus store
chain has a reputation for affordable prices and cheerful service.



#1. 7-Eleven

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#1. 7-ELEVEN

- Popularity rating: 63%
- Fame rating: 97% (Rank: #1)

The first convenience store, 7-Eleven, started in 1927, with the sale of food
from the dock of an icehouse in Dallas. By 1946, the store locations were named
7-Eleven for being open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. 7-Elevens were the first stores
to add fuel pumps, self-service soda vending machines, and ATMs.

Today, there are some 60,000 7-Elevens worldwide. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
2020 was the first time the store failed to celebrate July 11 (i.e., 7/11) by
offering free Slurpees to customers, a tradition it started in 2002 and resumed
in 2021. But in 2020, the company instead said it donated a million meals to a
charity to feed the hungry.

Data reporting by Paxtyn Merten. Story editing by Jeff Inglis. Copy editing by
Andrew Mangan. Photo selection by Abigail Renaud.

Filed Under: Josh Gottheimer
Categories: New Jersey News, Ultimate New Jersey
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