It all started with The Pig. These days, the Piggly Wiggly is our neighborhood store for grabbing a gallon of milk, a few boxes of cereal, and a loaf of bread, but 100 years ago it was a ...

I remember a Piggly Wiggly on the corner of South Flores and Beldon streets in the 1940s. The last time I was in the vicinity, the building housed a bodega painted yellow. Where did the name Piggly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dec. 12, 1919: Clarence Saunders is elected ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Four West Virginia Foodland stores have recently made the franchise switch to Piggly Wiggly, the most recent being the “Bigley Piggly Wiggly” at 10 Spring St., near Bigley ...

Thanks to James A. Watson Jr. of Beaufort for sharing his poem about the closing last week of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket at 1900 Boundary St. The store closed after seven decades in Beaufort, and ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On this Day in 1916, Memphis entrepreneur Clarence Saunders opened the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly. Before its opening, customers handed clerks a list and ...

On Nov. 10, 1922, the first Piggly Wiggly store in Asheville opened. The new Asheville store, located at 18 N. Pack Square, was described as introducing to Asheville “an entirely new method of selling ...

This Piggly Wiggly store is at 505 S. Palestine St. in Athens, Texas. It was converted from a Save A Lot in May 2022. Fernando Soto Ask anyone who grew up in the South about Piggly Wiggly and they’ll ...