Weingarten's was a supermarket chain in the Southern United States until it was acquired by Safeway in 1983.

[1][2][3] Hersch Harris Weingarten, a poor Jewish immigrant from Łańcut (what was then Austria-Hungary) and his son, Joseph, opened a grocery store in Downtown Houston in 1901.

Advertising "Better Food for Less," Joseph Joe Weingarten pioneered self-service and cash-and-carry shopping.

To concentrate on real estate development for retail shopping centers, Weingarten Incorporated sold its stores, which had grown to a chain of 104 stores in five states, to Cavenham Foods, who transferred management to its chain Grand Union in 1980 for $12 (~$44.00 in 2023) a share.

[8] Grand Union then resold most of the stores to Safeway (Safeway, which later left the Houston market, acquired 43 of the stores), Randalls (purchased by Safeway when they reentered Houston, but at that time, an independent company), and Gerland's Food Fair in 1983, including 55 stores in the Houston area.