Category: Arizona

About Fry’s Food and Drug Stores is Arizona’s dominant supermarket chain and a wholly owned division of The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), with administrative offices and distribution at 500 S. 99th Avenue, Suite 128, in Tolleson, Arizona. Originally founded by Donald Fry in California in 1954, the brand entered Arizona in 1960 and now operates 131 grocery locations across 34 Arizona cities plus 92 fuel centers, employing over 20,000 Arizona associates. Kroger acquired Fry’s in 1983, and Fry’s operates as a regional grocery banner under Kroger’s corporate structure, with Kroger’s parent headquarters at 1014 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Address note: Some directories reference Fry’s with a generic Phoenix/Scottsdale address or Kroger’s Cincinnati address. The correct Arizona-based administrative headquarters —

About Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. is an American publicly traded specialty grocery chain headquartered at 5455 East High Street, Suite 111, Phoenix, Arizona 85054 — in the North Phoenix/Scottsdale corridor — serving as the corporate home of one of the largest and fastest-growing natural and organic food retailers in the United States. Sprouts was founded in July 2002 in Chandler, Arizona by Kevin Easler and Shon Boney — inspired by the family-run Boney’s Marketplace produce stand tradition dating to 1943 — and has grown from a single Arizona farmers market–style store into a multi-state natural grocery powerhouse. The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker SFM and is one of the most recognized names in the organic and