Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) is the second-largest retailer-owned grocery

Supermarket

A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...

 wholesaler in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, after Wakefern Food Corporation

Wakefern Food Corporation

The Wakefern Food Corp., founded in 1946 and based in Keasbey, New Jersey , is the largest co-operative group of supermarkets in the United States...

. The cooperative

Cooperative

A cooperative is a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit...

 serves over 1,900 stores in 21 states. It was founded in 1924 as Associated Grocers of Kansas City and is based in Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...

. Associated Wholesale Grocers distributes two brands of grocery products, Best Choice and Always Save. In addition to being a wholesaler, AWG owns and operates the supermarket chain Homeland

Homeland (supermarket)

Homeland is a supermarket chain in the United States. Homeland is currently headquartered in Edmond, Oklahoma. , it operates around 50 supermarkets in Oklahoma and Kansas. Many Homeland supermarkets also include a pharmacy.-History:...

.

AWG acquired Affiliated Foods Southwest

Affiliated Foods Southwest

Affiliated Foods Southwest was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. It was founded in 1948 by C. E. "Doc" Toland, who had worked in a cooperative in Little Rock, Arkansas called Model Markets...

 in 2009.

Store concepts

• Price Chopper / Price Mart
  Price Chopper / Price Mart
  Price Chopper is a chain of grocery stores in the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is a premier grocery concept operated by Associated Wholesale Grocers , which operates 55 stores in Kansas and Missouri...
  
  
• Country Mart
• Cash Saver
• Apple Market
• SunFresh
• ThriftWay
• IGA
  IGA (supermarkets)
  IGA is a brand of grocery stores active in more than 30 countries. Contrasting with the chain store business model, IGA operates as a franchise through stores that are owned separately from the brand. Many of these stores operate in small town markets and belong to families that manage them...
  
  

Selected Members

• Four B (Ball's Food Stores and Hen House Market)
• Apple Markets of St. Joseph
• Cosentino's
• Harps Food Stores
• Houchens Industries
  Houchens Industries
  Houchens Industries, is an American employee-owned company, in business since 1918 when it began as a small grocery operated by founder Ervin Houchens in rural Barren County, Kentucky. The company is headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The company runs about 425 grocery and convenience stores...
  
  
• Ray’s Apple Markets
• Reasor's