Cub Foods Celebrates 35 Years as Minnesota's Hometown Grocer.Business Editors/Consumer/Food Writers STILLWATER, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2003 35th anniversary events include food drive, retro [Latin, Back; backward; behind.] A prefix used to designate a prior condition or time. prices and chance to win a new SUV Celebrating its 35th year of providing low prices, widest selection and the freshest produce, Cub Foods Cub Foods is a grocery store chain with eighty-four stores in Minnesota, Iowa, Northern and Central Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Miami Valley in Ohio. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Supervalu. announces a series of anniversary celebrations, prize giveaways and a food drive to benefit local food shelves. Cub Foods invites the public to participate in the celebratory events, including the chance to win a new SUV, special in-store price cuts and the food drive. "We're very excited about celebrating 35 years of serving our valued customers," said Gordy Farrington, president, Cub Foods west region. "We've planned a wide range of activities to get everyone involved in our anniversary celebration. As one of the first warehouse grocers in the nation, we're proud of our heritage and we're grateful that our customers have supported us so strongly for these many years." To commemorate its historic milestone, Cub Foods is giving customers the chance to win the ultimate grocery-getter, a brand-new GMC Envoy The GMC Envoy is an SUV from the GMC marque of General Motors. It was introduced as a luxury version of the Jimmy for the 1998 model year, the same year the Jimmy was restyled. SUV. From Aug. 31 - Sept. 27, visitors to all 44 Twin Cities-area Cub Foods stores who display a vinyl "I Love My Cub" window cling cling intr.v. clung , cling·ing, clings 1. To hold fast or adhere to something, as by grasping, sticking, embracing, or entwining: in their car window will have the chance to win a $100 Cub Foods gift card and receive a key that may unlock the door to the GMC Envoy. Free window clings are available at any Twin Cities Cub Foods store. The SUV will be given away Oct. 7. As part of the anniversary celebration, Cub Foods stores will offer a variety of in-store events, including special anniversary price cuts on a number of products, coloring contests, cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to stacking contests and more. With the help of the greater Twin Cities community and the Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Twins have played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. , Cub Foods hopes to break a local record for food donations. The Cub Foods charity food drive will seek to collect 35,000 pounds of food in just 35 days - an average of 1,000 pounds of food every day. Cub Foods will match the public's donation pound-per-pound for a total of 70,000 pounds. Food donations will be distributed to local food shelves, including Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank, a longtime charitable partner of Cub Foods. Food drive donations will be accepted through Oct. 5 at all 44 Twin Cities Cub Foods stores. Non-perishable food items also will be accepted on the Metrodome Plaza prior to the Minnesota Twins baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League Saturday, Sept. 6 at 11 a.m. Food donations will be accepted beginning at 9:30 a.m. Those dropping off donations will be entered in a prize drawing to win one of 10 $100 Cub Foods gift cards. Winners will be announced during the game. Cub Foods History Founded 35 years ago by grocers Jack Hooley, Charlie Hooley, Culver cul·ver n. A dove or pigeon. [Middle English, from Old English culufre, from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula, diminutive of columba, dove.] "Cub" Davis and Bob Thueson, the first Cub Foods store opened in Fridley, Minn., in 1968. As one of the first warehouse-style discount food stores in the country, Cub Foods established the original concept of "Consumers United for Buying." Today, Cub Foods operates more than 100 stores in six states, serving as the low-cost hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" grocer for a diverse range of communities. In 1980, SUPERVALU bought Cub Foods and expanded it from five stores to 44 in the Twin Cities. Cub Foods' efficient buying, volume purchasing and disciplined format bring low prices, innovation and convenience to its customers. |
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