25 Facts About Marsh Supermarkets

Marsh Supermarkets was an American retail food chain headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, with a peak number of 86 stores in 2013 located throughout central Indiana and parts of western Ohio .

Ermal Marsh Supermarkets died near the city of Logansport, Indiana in an August 1959 airplane crash; his brother Estel succeeded him as company president.

In 1968 as Marsh Supermarkets continued to grow, Estel Marsh was promoted to chairman of the board.

One of Marsh Supermarkets's most distinguishing features was its innovation and early adoption of retail technology.

In early 1994, Marsh Supermarkets introduced a card-based customer loyalty program called the Marsh Supermarkets Fresh IDEA Card in which discounts are sometimes based on the cardholder's buying habits and are issued immediately for current purchases or as coupons for future visits.

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In conjunction with this program, Marsh Supermarkets became the first supermarket chain in the region to offer a co-branded Visa card the following year.

Marsh Supermarkets headquarters moved to a new location along Interstate 69 in Fishers, Indiana.

Marsh Supermarkets released a new plan to re-format the stores, known as the "Supermarket of the Future" campaign.

Marsh Supermarkets made attempts to expand beyond their Indiana-Ohio market to other areas such as Chicago in 2005, but were driven out by larger competition in less than a year of operation there.

In February 2006, Marsh Supermarkets announced that they were ending its longtime sponsorship of the Indiana State Fair due to the company's financial problems.

The Marsh Supermarkets name remained on the Blue Ribbon Pavilion as late as 2015 when the Indiana State Fair was able to recruit Elements Financial as a new sponsor to replace Marsh Supermarkets.

At the time of acquisition, Marsh had operated 69 stores as Marsh supermarkets, 38 stores as LoBill Foods stores, eight stores as O'Malia Food Markets, 154 stores as Village Pantry convenience stores, and two stores as Arthur's Fresh Market stores in Indiana, Illinois and western Ohio.

Marsh Supermarkets operated Crystal Food Services; Primo Banquet Catering and Conference Centers; Floral Fashions; McNamara Florist and Enflora.

Under Lazaran, Marsh Supermarkets replaced most of their well known Marsh Supermarkets store branded products with the higher profit but lesser known Food Club and Valu Time private label brands from Topco.

In May 2014, Marsh Supermarkets opened their first store since they were acquired by Sun Capital.

In December 2015, Marsh Supermarkets announced plans to open 13 new stores by 2018 while updating 52 of the chain's 73 existing stores.

Two months later, in February 2016, it was announced that Marsh Supermarkets was planning to return to Fort Wayne for the first time in a decade by building a new modern store on the site of a vacant out-dated retail building.

Marsh Supermarkets withdrew from the project the following year without a comment.

In October 2016, it was reported that Marsh Supermarkets was trying to sell its corporate headquarters building to get some quick cash by using a standard sale-and-leaseback procedure.

In December 2016, Marsh Supermarkets released their first iPhone and Android mobile apps that help customers obtain discounts while they shop.

In January 2017, several news outlets had reported that Marsh Supermarkets was having trouble paying several landlords and contractors with the total amount owed exceeding $200 thousand.

At the beginning of May 2017, Marsh Supermarkets sold all of their in-store pharmacy records in both Indiana and Ohio to CVS Pharmacy for an undisclosed amount and closed the pharmacies.

Marsh Supermarkets had notified the Indiana Department of Workforce Development of the impending mass terminations as required under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

Marsh Supermarkets then began liquidation sales at its remaining stores.

In January and July 2003, Marsh Supermarkets purchased three Mr D's Fresh Food Markets in two separate deals and converted all three stores to the O'Malia's banner.

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