The purchases came as Tops exited the Northeast Ohio area. Giant Eagle emerged as one of the dominant supermarket chains in Northeast Ohio, competing mainly against the New York-based Tops, from which it purchased 18 stores in October 2006. The company entered the Toledo market, opening two stores in 20, both of which eventually closed. Giant Eagle also purchased or opened other Northeast Ohio stores outside the Stop-n-Shop area, such as the former Apples supermarkets in the nearby Akron area. In 1998, Giant Eagle acquired the International Seaway Foods and converted the Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop stores into Giant Eagle Stores. The family operators of Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop formed a holding company named International Seaway Foods as the main umbrella for Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop. Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop stores were family owned and operated in different areas of Cleveland. Around the mid- or late 1990s, Giant Eagle later reached Cleveland by acquiring the Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop stores in the area. The Kent and Ravenna stores were the first to be converted at that time the Youngstown stores then got converted years later. The chain remained based solely in western Pennsylvania until the 1980s, when it bought Youngstown, Ohio-based wholesaler Tamarkin Company, and its Valu-King stores that were converted to the Giant Eagle name. This is the current Giant Eagle prototype, used since the late 1990s, but has the 1980s-era Giant Eagle logo font. Giant Eagle quickly expanded across western Pennsylvania, weathering the Great Depression and World War II. In 1931, OK Grocery merged with Eagle Grocery to form Giant Eagle, which was incorporated two years later. Meanwhile, the Moravitz and Weizenbaum families built their own successful chain of grocery stores named OK Grocery. The three families agreed to stay out of the grocery business for at least three years.

In 1928, Eagle, which at the time had 125 stores, merged with Kroger. The company is headquartered in an office park in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township.Īfter World War I, three Pittsburgh-area families-the Goldsteins, Porters, and Chaits-built a grocery chain called Eagle Grocery. had 493 stores across the portfolio: 211 supermarkets (Giant Eagle, Giant Eagle Express, Market District, Market District Express) 8 standalone pharmacies, 274 fuel station/convenience stores under the GetGo banner, and one standalone car wash under the WetGo banner. As of summer 2014, the company had approximately $9.9 billion in annual sales. Based on 2005 revenue, Giant Eagle is the 49th-largest retailer in the United States.

In 2021, it was the 36th-largest privately held company, as determined by Forbes. Supermarket News ranked Giant Eagle 21st on the 'Top 75 North American Food Retailers' based on sales of $11 billion. The company was founded in 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and incorporated on August 31, 1931. ɪ ɡ əl/) and stylized as giant eagle) is an American supermarket chain with stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland. ( Western Pennsylvania English: / ˈ dʒ aɪ n. GetGo, RX-21 LLC, Ricker Oil Company, Inc., Rini-Rego Supermarkets, Inc., Seegrid Corporation.

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