Karns Quality Foods
Karns Quality Foods, also known as Karns Prime & Fancy Food, is a privately owned supermarket chain in the Harrisburg metropolitan area of Pennsylvania. The company's corporate headquarters is in Mechanicsburg.
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Karns Quality Foods was founded in 1959 by David Karns and has been operated continuously by the Karns family since then. Karns operates nine stores in central Pennsylvania:[1] Lower Paxton Township, Lemoyne, Hampden Township, Boiling Springs, New Bloomfield, Middletown, Carlisle, Newberry Township, and Hershey.[2] The current CEO is the founder's son, D. Scott Karns.[3]
The company was started as a butcher shop in New Cumberland,[3] but the current format is a traditional grocery store with an emphasis on perishable items. Karns stores also have a selection of fresh local produce and fresh baked goods.
In September 2006, Karns Quality Foods acquired the remaining store locations of Fox's Markets, a grocery chain that was based in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.[4] The addition of Fox's locations in Middletown and Hershey gave Karns a total of eight stores.[5] In 2019, the ninth store was opened in the site of a former Darrenkamp's which closed in 2018.
The Central Penn Business Journal ranked Karns Quality Foods as the 35th largest privately held corporation in central Pennsylvania in 2013.[6] In 2009, it was ranked one of the 10 largest privately held companies in Cumberland County.[3]
References
- Record Details: Karns Prime & Fancy Food Ltd., Central Penn Business Journal website, accessed September 5, 2010
- Store Locator, Karns Quality Foods website
- Top 100: Cumberland County: Tops share success stories, Central Penn Business Journal, Thursday, August 6, 2009
- "Karns Catches Last 2 Fox's in Pa". Progressive Grocer. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- Eric Veronikis, Fox's Foods to sell stores to Karns, Central Penn Business Journal, Friday, August 25, 2006
- Central Penn Business Journal, url=http://www.cpbj.com/section/listcentral?djoPage=view_html&djoPid=2707