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Apr 26, 2017 · Hendrik Meijer joined the family retail business at the age of 11 as a grocery clerk. After working in the journalism field, he rejoined Meijer in 1979 as assistant advertising director. He currently oversees the operations of more than 200 self-service combination supermarket-discount department stores located in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana ...
With $338.76 of goods bought on credit, Hendrik Meijer opened his food store in 1934, competing with a grocer across the street as well as more than 20 competitors in town. With his son Frederick, born in 1919, Hendrik Meijer traveled as far as necessary to find the best goods for his grocery at the lowest prices available.
Mar 29, 2022 · Frederik Meijer, son of Hendrik, added the pony rides to the stores after he found the original pony, with "10 cents" painted on her side. He thought that a dime was a little too pricey for his client base, so he lowered the cost to one penny and stuck the pony in his store. Each coin-operated pony is named Sandy.
May 23, 2018 · With $338.76 of goods bought on credit, Hendrik Meijer opened his food store in 1934, competing with a grocer across the street as well as more than 20 competitors in town. With his son Frederick, born in 1919, Hendrik Meijer traveled as far as necessary to find the best goods for his grocery at the lowest prices available.
Hendrik Meijer was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Meijer was born in Amsterdam in 1744, though Abraham Jacob van der Aa gave his date of birth as 1737. According to the RKD he was first a member of the Stadstekenacademie in Amsterdam until 1768. He moved to Haarlem and started a wallpaper factory there in 1764-1769.
For Hendrik Meijer, and his son, Fred, running their business based on dignity and respect for all people and caring for the environment was simply the right thing to do. In 1934, Hendrik opened a small grocery store to bring people fresh, quality food at fair prices during the Great Depression.
At this point, Hendrik was 50 years old, but the Great Depression forced him to expand from his barbershop into something that would be more reliable in very lean years. This one store later expanded into a supermarket competing with A&P, and eventually turned into the Meijer chain that we know today (which is a one-stop shopping trip) in the ...
