Piggly Wiggly is a supermarket

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...

 chain operating in the Midwestern

Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States is one of the four U.S. geographic regions defined by the United States Census Bureau, providing an official definition of the American Midwest....

 and Southern

Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...

 regions of the United States, run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers

C&S Wholesale Grocers

C&S Wholesale Grocers is a wholesale distributor of food and grocery store items. With its headquarters in Keene, New Hampshire, C&S is the twelfth-largest privately held company in the United States, as listed in 2008 by Forbes. , they are the eighth-largest such company...

. The current company headquarters is in Keene

Keene, New Hampshire

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, New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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Piggly Wiggly was founded on September 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

Tennessee

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, by the American

United States

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 entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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 Clarence Saunders. It was the first true self-service grocery store, a concept patented by Saunders in 1917.