B & B (grocery retailer)

Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = B&B Stores, Inc.
company_
fate = Conversion to Fred Meyer
successor = Fred Meyer, later Smith's Food & Drug
foundation =
defunct = 1980s
location = Kalispell, Montana
industry = Retail
key_people =
products = Food, clothing, footwear, bedding, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, toys, and housewares.
parent = The Roundup Company
subsid = B&B Pharmacy, Inc.

B & B was a chain of grocery stores founded in Kalispell, Montana. The company operated their flagship store as a hypermarket.

Relation to Fred Meyer

In the 1960s the parent company of B&B, The Roundup Company of Spokane was acquired by Fred Meyer and converted into Fred Meyer stores by the mid 1980s. In 1998, when Fred Meyer acquired a few Montana locations of Buttrey Food & Drug and Albertsons the company renamed these stores "Smith's Food & Drug" and the company then decided to keep one name in Montana; thus the Montana Fred Meyer stores were converted to Fred Meyer owned Smith's Food & Drug stores. Because the size of the Kalispell store was determined too big for Smith's to use, which was caused by the store's past as a full size Fred Meyer the store was then closed and demolished for a new smaller building which opened in 1999.

Former locations

*Kalispell, Montana: B & B Shopping Center (renamed Fred Meyer mid-1980s, renamed Smith's in 1997, original building demolished and rebuilt in 1999)
*Columbia Falls, Montana: Nucleus Avenue (renamed Fred Meyer mid-1980s, renamed Smith's in 1997)
*Polson, Montana: U.S. Highway 93 (now Super 1 Foods)