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Lucky's Market

Lucky's Market is a brand of supermarkets that is being used by two independent and unrelated regional supermarket chains, LM Acquisition Co. LLC in Colorado and Lucky's Market Ohio in Ohio.

LM Acquisition Co. LLC , doing business as Lucky's Market, started in Boulder and briefly became a national chain before it shrank back to its home state. Founded in 2003 by Bo and Trish Sharon, the chain focuses primarily on organic food. From 2016 to 2019, the company was partially owned by the Kroger supermarket chain. At its peak in 2019, the company had 39 stores in ten states. The withdrawal of financial support from Kroger at the end of 2019 led to a massive company downsizing to just six surviving stores in four states and a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing in January 2020. After the Sharons obtained the surviving six stores, they quickly sold off the four stores outside of Colorado to retain only two stores, one in Boulder and the other in Fort Collins, by April 2020.

Lucky's Market Ohio, doing business as Lucky's Market in the state of Ohio, began in 2020 through the purchase of both Ohio stores from LM Acquisition by the owners of Dave's Market.

Bo Sharon and his wife, Trish Sharon, founded Lucky's Market in Boulder, Colorado, in 2003. The two had taken over a grocery store, then known as the North Boulder Market, and renovated it. The couple chose to make a store focusing primarily on organic food. After operating their first store for 10 years, they then opened a second store in Longmont, Colorado, in August 2013. The company is one of the few businesses that encourage its patrons to drink while they shop by selling craft beer by the pint and providing cup holders built into the shopping carts.

The first expansion beyond Colorado was in Columbus, Ohio in October 2013, the third store in the chain. Supermarket News described the store's format as "value-priced natural and organic foods served in a hip and playful atmosphere targeting foodies". Many stores allowed customers to sample craft beers while shopping.

Lucky's opened its first store in the state of Missouri, the fourth in the chain, in January 2014 in Columbia, the home of the University of Missouri. A second Missouri store, the seventh in the chain, was opened in the St. Louis suburb of Ellisville in July 2014. A third Missouri store opened in Springfield in November 2017.

Lucky's opened its first store in the state of Montana in March 2014 in Billings, the fifth in the chain. A second Montana store was opened four years later in Missoula in May 2018. Both stores were eventually closed in February 2020.

Lucky's opened its first store in the state of Kentucky, its sixth in the nation, in May 2014 in Louisville by holding a "bacon cutting" ceremony.

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