URM Stores
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| Formerly | United Retail Merchants |
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| Company type | Retailers' cooperative |
| Founded | 1921 in Spokane, Washington, United States [1] |
| Headquarters | 7511 N Freya St, , United States |
Areas served | Washington Idaho Oregon Montana |
Key people | Ray Sprinkle (President & CEO) |
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| Members | Rosauers Yoke's Fresh Market Super 1 Foods Harvest Foods |
Number of employees | 2,755 |
| Divisions | Rosauers Super 1 Foods Huckleberry's Natural Market |
| Website | urmstores.com/ |
P URM Stores, Inc. (formerly United Retail Merchants) of Spokane, Washington is an American retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. It was founded in 1921 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It is an owner of Western Family Foods. It purchased Rosauers Supermarket in 2000.
Its affiliated supermarkets include Family Foods, Harvest Foods, Rosauers, Yoke's Fresh Market, and Super 1 Foods.
History
[edit]URM Stores was founded as United Retail Merchants as a co-op of five stores in 1921.[2] It became a distributor of Western Family Foods in 1968.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "URM Stores History". URM Stores. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
- ^ a b "Then and Now: URM Stores". The Spokesman-Review. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2024.