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About
- Name
- Buehler's Fresh Foods
- Retail
- Food and Beverage Stores
- Manufacturing
- Food Manufacturing
- Accommodation and Food Services
- Food Services and Drinking Places
- Trading names
- Buehler's, Buehler's Food Markets Inc.
- Services
- Bakery, Meat Market, Restaurant, Supermarket, Florist, Pharmacy
Facts
- Founded
- 1929
New Philadelphia,Ohio
Related
Key Persons
- Founders
Location
- Wooster - Town Market
- 334 N. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Wooster - Burbank
- 3540 Burbank Rd., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Former location downtown Wooster
- 120 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
1932
- 120 E. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Former location downtown Wooster
- 141 N. Market St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
- Orrville
- 1114 W. High St., Orrville, 44667, Ohio
- Warehouse
- 1401 Old Mansfield Rd., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
In 1929, Ed and Helen Buehler}} opened their first, modest grocery store in New Philadelphia, Ohio. A scant three years later, they had relocated to Wooster and opened a store near the northeast corner of Public Square. The store gradually expanded, outgrowing its first space in 15 years and necessitating a move to an even larger space on North Market Street (its current downtown Wooster location) in just four more years. From there, the business grew beyond the bounds of Wooster, with stores opening in Dover (1941), Orrville (1959), Medina (1964), Coshocton (1968), Delaware (1969), Wadsworth (1975), Wooster Milltown (1980), and Ashland (2001).
As the number of stores grew, so too did the office and warehouse side of the market, and in 1975 those managerial operations moved to a new facility at 1401 Old Mansfield Road, Wooster, with expansions to that space occurring throughout the 1980s.
Customer expectations shifted beginning in the 1980s, and Buehler's swiftly met the demand for additional services. In 1983, the Orrville store opened a new pharmacy as part of its services, and the New Philadelphia store added a Hallmark store and an FTD flower shop as well as a kitchen and auditorium. Stores now also generally include a restaurant, a pharmacy, a bank or ATM machines, and the larger stores also have flower shops and cooking school facilities. The renovation of the Wooster Milltown store in the late 2010s continued the idea of providing many services under one roof by including a UPS store and a state liquor store.
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Slogans
Slogan
- Putting People First
- 1942 - "Buy the Best for Less at Buehler's" [1]
Quick Facts
- 1929 - Founded by Ed L. Buehler and Helen Buehler opened their first store in New Philadelphia, Ohio
- 1932 - Moved the business to Wooster, Ohio near the northeast corner of Public Square
- 1941 - Dover store opened [2]
- 1947 - January 6, E. L. & Helen Buehler open store on 141 N. Market St., Wooster, Ohio.
- 1951 - Wooster downtown moved to its third location, on North Market Street doubling in size. [3]
- 1959 - Orrville location opened on West High Street [4]
- 1964 - Medina location opened on Harding Street, and later moved to its present location at Forest Meadows Drive. [5]
- 1965 - December, Marks 35th Anniversary
- 1968 - Coshocton location opened - originally in the Downtowner Plaza [6]
- 1969 - Deleware location opened in the Georgetown Shopping Plaza
- 1974 - Office/Warehouse was originally moved from above the Downtown store. [7]
- 1975 - January 6, Operations moved to new facility at 1401 Old Mansfield Rd., Wooster, Ohio.
- 1975 - Wadsworth location opened at Great Oaks Trail [8]
- 1976 - Dover location expanded on West 3rd Street [9]
- 1980 - Wooster Milltown location opened [10]
- 1983 - Coshocton location moved to South Second Street [11]
- 1983 - April, Buehler's in Orrville opening new complete pharmacy. F. Richard Beckert, Pharmacist Manager [12]
- 1984 - New Philadelphia--The South Broadway store opened, its third location. New features were a Hallmark Store, restaurant, FTD flower shop, pharmacy, and kitchen/auditorium. [13]
- 1984 - Warehouse was expanded [14]
- 1986 - Delaware location moved to 800 West Central Ave. It incorporates all present Buehler's features, i.e. Mill Restaurant, Seafood Cove, pharmacy, FTD floral shop, card shop, bank, and cooking school facility. [15]
- 1986 - Warehouse was expanded [16]
- 1987 - Office greatly expanded [17]
- 1988 - Wadsworth Great Oaks Trails expanded to twice its size. [18]
- 1989 - Wooster Milltown location enlarged [19]
- 2001 - May 14, Buehler's opened #11 store on Sugarbush Dr. in Ashland, Ohio
- 2017 - October 18, E & H Family Group, parent company of Buehler's, announced the sale of its 13 supermarkets to employees in the form of an employee stock ownership program (ESOP). All 2,100 employees were retained in the transition, with eligible employees becoming owners. All 13 supermarkets remained open with the same hours of operation. [20]
- 2020 - July, Buehler's will operate Kingwood Center Garden's new Gateway Cafe [21]
- ↑ Observer 1942" Wooster High School annual. Wooster, Ohio
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Dalton Gazette, Dalton, Ohio. 1983 April 20, p.4.
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's Diamond Jubilee: Buehler's A Family Story
- ↑ Buehler's website history. 2020.
- ↑ Buehler's press release. 2020 March 12