(Alive To Die?!) Hickory Farms The Complete Story - S04E12

Once the nation's largest specialty food retailer, Hickory Farms Incorporated has been called "Middle America's gourmet." While the company's chain of mall stores and kiosks specializes in summer sausage, cheeses, candies, fruit baskets, nuts, and specialty meats and seafood, an increasing emphasis on mail order marketing characterized the early 1990s. Founded in Toledo, Ohio in the late 1950s, Hickory Farms went public in 1970 and was acquired by General Host Corp. in 1980. After two decades of unabated growth, Hickory Farms suffered two consecutive annual losses under its new parent. The chain was then spun off to a management-led investment group in 1987, and it remained privately-held into the 2020s. In 2000, the company shifted away from year-round mall-based locations to focus on internet and catalog sales. As a result, the company closed its remaining year-round mall stores.

#mall
#nostalgia
#retail

[catmommy]

This was a store that I liked very much at my local mall The ladies there knew how much I love cheeses so they would give me extra samples of the cheeses cause they knew 😊

[tracieschissel]

I loved the Hickory Farms in my mail, years ago!! I miss it so much!! But, I didn't realize that poisoness con agra foods took over 🤬

[danabro]

I worked for Hickory Farms retail store for many years. Loved the holidays there.

[c]

I loved it when I was younger i lived in Ohio at the time. and i order it sometime ago and it dont taste the same now. It lost it flavor. 😢

[artheriford]

Those masks are a core of the company's recovory.