Abandoned Groceries - Rainbow Foods - Blaine, MN
Rainbow Foods is a defunct chain of Minnesota grocery stores. Rainbow made its debut in 1983, founded by Sid Applebaum, of Applebaum's Grocery Stores and D. B. Reinhart, of Gateway Foods. Quickly growing to 40 plus stores throughout Minnesota by the mid-1990's, Rainbow Foods was the second-largest grocery chain in the Twin Cities, behind Cub Foods. And you know how we feel about Cub Foods... Applebaum and Reinhart sold Rainbow Foods to Texas-based wholesaler, Fleming Companies, in 1994. Fleming Companies held onto Rainbow until 2003. Flirting with both Safeway and Albertsons, before selling their 31 stores to Milwaukee based Roundy's, for 82.5 million. Fleming closed the other 12 locations not involved in the sale, cashing out on the grocery store business completely. On May 7, 2014, Roundy's sold 18 of the Rainbow Foods stores to a consortium of their own competition for 65 million dollars. The new owners included Lund's and Byerly's, about six smaller, local g...