The history of city market

The history of city market

by Anthony F. Prinster

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"CityMarket's story begins with a penniless eighteen-year-old immigrant and closeswith the business becoming part of the largest supermarket chain in the UnitedStates. In 1924, brothers Paul, Frank, Leo and Clarence Prinster bought a meatmarket in Grand Junction, Colorado, a business venture that would allow them toride out the stock market crash and the Great Depression. It also allowed themto open the state's first supermarket in 1939, the beginning of an empire thatremained in the family for over a century and helped shape the heritage ofwestern Colorado. Tony Prinster shares how the City Market founders and its dedicated employees transformed a family business into the retail brand thattouched the lives of so many people"--

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