Talk:Red Food

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Merger with BI-LO page
While the merger was undone by a bot for the wrong reason - vandalism - I came here to undo it myself. Please discuss any such major changes before making them. Thanks. - BillCJ (talk) 06:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Grady Parham
Red Food Stores was not started by Frank McDonald. It was begun by Grady Parham as a red truck traveling through neighborhoods selling groceries. It was called the Rolling Red Food Store. Mr. Parham was induced to work for Mr. H.G. Hill and became his favorite employee. Upon Mr. Hill's death, the Chattanooga stores became Mr. Parham's. He changed the name of those stores to the Red Food Stores. Around the end of WWII there were about 96 or 97 stores. They were small corner groceries, much like mom and pop stores. The trend to supermarkets brought the closing of the small stores and the company was reduced to 19 stores, while greatly increasing sales. Mr. Parham sold two-thirds of the company in the 1960s and retired. His home was at the very top of the W road on Signal Mountain.

Mr. McDonald started the Home Stores grocery chain. He despised government. He was cited several times for putting formaldehyde in the hamburger meat. It made the meat stay red longer but was very much a health hazard. That was only one of his problems with the government. My recollection is that he simply shut down the company rather than sell it. He also owned the newspaper, the Chattanooga Free Press and started Blue Cross of Tennessee. Need reliable source(s) to prove all of this, please. Parrothead1983 (talk) 02:57, 10 September 2010 (UTC)