For references to the bluegrass and country label Skaggs Family Records, see Ricky Skaggs.
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The Skaggs Family, starting from a small frontier town in southern Idaho, came to have an important impact on merchandising across much of the United States. During most of the 20th century, the Skaggs name was prominent on hundreds of stores throughout the West and Midwest.
The origins of a wide range of these grocery and drug store enterprises can be traced to this one Skaggs family. The father in the family was a Baptist minister and had moved west for a better climate. He had a large family; to supplement his income he opened a grocery store. He and six of his sons, with varying degrees of collaboration, introduced in the early 20th century two important changes in merchandising: the low-margin, cash-and-carry approach to business, and rapidly growing a multitude of common outlets, now called chain stores. Their entrepreneurial interests became a major retailing force resulting in large, retail chains that carried not only the Skaggs name itself, but names like Safeway, Osco, PayLess, Albertsons, Longs Drug Stores, Katz and others.
only the Skaggs name itself, but names like Safeway, Osco, PayLess, Albertsons, Longs Drug Stores, Katz and others. Circa 1887 Samuel M. Skaggs, with his...
baseball as well. Growing up, Skaggs attended his mother's softball practices, where he assisted the players by fielding balls. Skaggs was a three-sport athlete...
brothers: Pepper Oscar Skaggs, Aron Sylvester Skaggs, Loronzo L. Skaggs, Samuel Olnie Skaggs, Levi Justin Skaggs, Marion Skaggs grew the chain, operated...
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by Leonard S. Skaggs Jr. more familiarly known as Sam Skaggs. Stores in several markets having both an Alpha Beta supermarket and a Skaggs Drug Center drugstore...
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square feet in size. In 1969, Albertsons partnered with Skaggs Drug Centers, owned by the Skaggs Companies, Inc., to create the first combination food/drug...
collaboration with Ricky Skaggs won them a Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album. In 2007, The Whites and Ricky Skaggs received a GMA...
stores from Skaggs United Stores of Idaho and Skaggs Cash Stores of California. On completion of the Skaggs/Safeway merger, M. B. Skaggs became the Chief...
many became Denny's. The company was bought by American Stores in 1961. Skaggs Drug Centers bought American Stores in 1979 and assumed the American Stores...
Drugs, by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), when they opened their first store on Piedmont...
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into the early 1990s, however. American Stores were sold in 1979 to the Skaggs Companies which took the American Stores name, moving its headquarters to...
for their first appearance. In 2005, they signed with SkaggsFamily Records (musician Ricky Skaggs) and were later nominated for the IMBA categories 'Entertainers...
David Lindsey Skaggs (born June 12, 1951) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of four seasons, from 1977 until 1980...
to his brother Samuel "L.S." Olnie Skaggs (then an executive at Safeway) along with some colleagues. L.J. Skaggs retained California PayLess Stores,...
Marion Barton Skaggs (April 5, 1888 – May 8, 1976) was an American businessman and leading member of the SkaggsFamily of retailers who expanded the predecessor...
with an all-gospel release, The Journey. In 2001, the band signed with SkaggsFamily Records and soon released No Other Way, their first for the label. The...
Steph Carse – Steph Carse (H2E) 2000: Ricky Skaggs and Friends – Big Mon: The Songs of Bill Monroe (SkaggsFamily) 2000: The Kinleys – II (Epic) 2000: Kenny...
Bluegrass Rules! (Rounder) 1999: Ancient Tones (SkaggsFamily) 1999: Soldier of the Cross (SkaggsFamily) 2014: When I'm Free (Ten In Hand Records) 2013:...
to record with. Her self-titled debut album, released in 2004 on the SkaggsFamily record label, was produced by Bowman, and featured a blend of bluegrass...
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