Giant Eagle has since expanded to several additional locations, acquiring other abandoned Big Bear stores and in newly constructed buildings using the current Giant Eagle prototype. In 2004, Giant Eagle purchased nine former Big Bear stores in Columbus, Newark, and Marietta from parent company Penn Traffic. Giant Eagle first entered what it calls its "Columbus Region" in late 2000, opening three large newly built stores at Sawmill and Bethel Rd., Lewis Center, and Dublin-Granville Rd., with two more following in 20 at Gahanna and Hilliard-Rome Rd. Giant Eagle has aggressively expanded its footprint in the Greater Columbus area, capitalizing on the demise of the former Big Bear supermarket chain, and taking Big Bear's traditional place as Columbus's upmarket grocer.
The Cumberland store closed in December 2003, and the Hagerstown store closed in August 2005. Giant Eagle purchased independently owned County Market stores, giving it a store in Somerset, Pennsylvania, a new store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and its first Maryland stores: one in Cumberland, one in Hagerstown, and two in Frederick. 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 have now 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. The company is headquartered in an office park in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township. 216 supermarkets (Giant Eagle, Giant Eagle Express, Market District, Market District Express) and 264 fuel station/convenience stores under the GetGo 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 $10 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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