{"id":1555,"date":"2017-08-04T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:42:46","slug":"tdibh-king-kullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/tdibh-king-kullen\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Business History: &#8220;America&#8217;s First Supermarket&#8221; King Kullen Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/08\/king-kullen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1558 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/08\/king-kullen-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/08\/king-kullen-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/08\/king-kullen.png 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>August 4, 1930:\u00a0<\/strong>When Michael J. Cullen suggested to the management of Kroger, his employer at the time, that they reinvent food stores by creating larger mostly self-service stores with low prices and more parking, they ignored him. He left his job at Kroger as General Sales Manager for 94 Illinois stores, and opened &#8220;America&#8217;s First Supermarket&#8221; King Kullen in a large garage in Jamaica (Queens), New York. The original location remained open for 80 years, while 32 locations still remain open in Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>King Kullen revolutionized food shopping in the U.S., as many of his competitors, including Kroger, would adopt the supermarket model. In addition, King Kullen proved to be a leader in employee relations by providing insurance, vacation time, and pay raises to employees as early as the late 1930&#8217;s. King Kullen is still family owned and operated.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_Kullen\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingkullen.com\/about-us\/\">King Kullen company website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 4, 1930:\u00a0When Michael J. Cullen suggested to the management of Kroger, his employer at the time, that they reinvent food stores by creating larger mostly self-service stores with low prices and more parking, they ignored him. He left his job at Kroger as General Sales Manager for 94 Illinois stores, and opened &#8220;America&#8217;s First <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/tdibh-king-kullen\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2869,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/08\/king-kullen.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}