[2] Salvatore Greco, an Italian immigrant, sold fruits and vegetables in the streets of Tampa beginning in 1914.

The Greco family built a proper store in 1947 under the name Big Barn in Plant City, Florida.

[5] After American Stores acquired Lucky in 1988, it sold Kash n' Karry to leveraged buyout firm Gibbons, Green, and van Amerongen.

[6][7] As the buyout was being completed, Kash n' Karry bought 24 Florida Choice supermarkets from Kroger, who was closing the chain.

[16] In July 1999, Food Lion also acquired Hannaford and a new holding company was created, making Kash n' Karry a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delhaize America.

[18] In January 2004, it was announced that 34 Kash n' Karry locations would close in order to focus on the West Coast of Florida and free up resources to open and remodel 20 stores.

[25] In March 2008, Hannaford Supermarkets announced that a data breach had exposed 4.2 million credit and debit cards to fraudulent misuse.

The intrusion also affected Sweetbay stores and certain independently owned retail locations in the Northeast that carried Hannaford products.

[34] In May 2013, Sweetbay and its sister supermarket chains Harveys and Reid's were sold to BI-LO LLC for $265 million.