Certified Grocers Midwest
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Certified Grocers Midwest was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in six states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It was founded in 1940 and was a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. Many of its stores served the African American who were mostly migrants from the Deep South or descendants of those migrants along later with the Hispanic community. It distributed Country's Delight brand bread, milk and ice cream as store brands along with Raggedy Ann and the Certified label. It merged into Central Grocers Cooperative in 2008. Central Grocers Cooperative went bankrupt in May 2017. [1]
It was headquartered in Hodgkins, Illinois, near Chicago.
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