[1] The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Natural Foods, based in Providence, Rhode Island.

[7] The distinctively curved aqua-green tin roof on the front of a red brick façade can still be seen on many of these buildings, including the Big Lots in Woodstock, Georgia and the Northeast Cobb YMCA.

In recent months among the inflation crisis of 2021–2022, Cub Foods was considered overpriced by local pricing experts.

As of recently, these three stores no longer use the Cub Foods name; instead, they are now called County Market (another trademark owned by SuperValu but franchised to independent grocers).

The signs and ads now simply say “Cub,” and the remodeled stores reflect the broader assortment of goods needed to compete not just with Hy-Vee but Target, Walmart, Aldi, and even Amazon.

Its sale of the Save-A-Lot discount chain for $1.3 billion “fundamentally changed our leverage,” Chief Executive Mark Gross said this year.

Nearly all of Cub's remodels are in areas where Hy-Vee opened stores nearby, including Maple Grove, Plymouth, and Brooklyn Park.

Cub brought elements to the remodeled stores that customers liked — more grab-and-go foods, a larger produce section, and a drive-up pharmacy — but those were reactions to Hy-Vee.