Trader Joe’s
When it comes to convenience stores, there is no that there has always been fierce competition. This statement is more evident in areas that are heavily populated. A man named Joe Coulombe began to stock food items that were rare and not common to appease customers to ditch 7-11 and go to his store in Monrovia California instead. Despite the company becoming a big name, he sold the company in 1979. Trader Joe’s is now owned by the same man who owns a huge supermarket chain from Germany called Aldi Nord named Theo Albrecht, who is known to have a net worth of $16 billion.
Lucky Strike
The Lucky Strike brand, which is also known as Luckies is probably the most popular American cigarette brand there is. People from the ‘30s and ‘40s smoked a lot of their product thanks to their solid marketing plan. Therefore, the company became the best-selling cigarette brand back then. The company partnered with a company named British American Tobacco in 1976. In 1994, the UK company purchased the American Tobacco Company and its subsidiaries, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall. Despite going through numerous changes, the company is still considered to be an American brand thanks to its pop-culture presence.