DELIGHTED to find a SELECTION of Passover greeting cards @ grocery store today!
I certainly never saw a VARIETY, MAYBE 1 in the past, but there were 4 or 5 different ones! They reliably carried Jewish + Holiday related merchandise. Sadly, I saw no hamentashen this year.
This grocery store, local to MD/DC/+:Some history:
Giant Food of Maryland, LLC is an American regional supermarket chain with 166 stores located in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.[3][4] It is a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize, and headquartered in unincorporated Prince George's County, Maryland, near Landover.[5][6]
Giant Food is also known in business context as Giant-Landover, to avoid confusion with The Giant Company, a Pennsylvania-based sister chain also owned by Ahold Delhaize and often referred to as Giant-Carlisle.
Giant was founded in 1936 by Nehemiah Meir "N.M." Cohen and Samuel Lehrman. Cohen was a rabbi who had emigrated from Palestine following World War I and opened a kosher meat market in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Lehrman was the financial backer who provided the funds for the company's creation. The first store was at Georgia Avenue NW and Park Road NW in the District of Columbia.[7]
The chain experienced rapid growth following World War II, growing from nine stores in 1946 to 17 in 1950.
Cohen died in 1995 at the age of 83. A holding company was formed because "none of the members of my family have had any experience or interest in operating Giant Food..." Three years after Cohen died, Giant was bought by Royal Ahold, a Dutch conglomerate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Food_(Landover)
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