“If anything, we’ll try to augment things … we’re not going to reinvent the wheel,” he said. Piggly Wiggly Midwest, which has about 100 Piggly Wiggly and Butera Market locations, approached Fox about buying the store based on his ties to the Sheboygan area.Īt 38,000 square feet, the Plymouth store is the largest of the three that Fox now owns, with the other two measuring just under 30,000 square feet.įox said he’s open to trying out things that have worked well at his other stores, but he’s not planning any major changes at the Plymouth location, which has been around for decades. Kroger bought the Piggly Wiggly stores in Memphis in the late 1920s when the company started operating as a franchise. “We’re coming home again.”įox began bagging groceries at Piggly Wiggly in Sheboygan when he was 16 and now owns franchises in Two Rivers, which he bought in 2005, and in Manitowoc, which he acquired in 2011. About Piggly Wiggly Piggly Wiggly was founded in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee. “We’re just thrilled to be there, and we’re looking forward to the opportunity,” said Fox, who co-owns the Plymouth store with his wife, Kris. The family has been in the grocery business since the mid-80s. The grocery store’s owner, Lynn Willard, said customers can visit the Piggly Wiggly at the newly-renovated location on Cherokee Road, which is about three miles away. The Fogle family owns six Piggly Wiggly stores across South Carolina.
That’s how Chuck Fogle, VP at Fogle’s, Inc., explained switching the family business to The Pig. The sale brings Fox back to the same store he began manager training at 20 years ago while climbing the ranks of the Sheboygan-based grocery chain. Piggly Wiggly is an excellent name here in the South. 1 from Jim Wieser and Kevin Mey, who’d owned it for the past two decades. Tammy Altus, assistant manager with HAC, Inc, scans and re-tags merchandise Wednesday at the northside Piggly Wiggly after the Oklahoma-based supermarket grocery chain acquired the two.
The Plymouth Piggly Wiggly grocery store is under new ownership after being sold to a Sheboygan native who owns a pair of Piggly Wiggly franchises in Manitowoc County.īob Fox, who now lives in Two Rivers, bought the store on Jan.
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