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| | Giant Food |
 | | Anticipating a huge cultural shift, Giant in 1955 opened its first shopping center store in Rockville, Md. Before the decade ended, a "new dimension in retailing" was ushered in when the first 35-department Super Giant opened in District Heights, Md. |
 | | To speed the checkout process for time-conscious shoppers, Giant in 1979 became the first chain in the world to install computer-assisted laser scanning in all its stores. |
 | | Giant opens an average of eight new stores each year, and has expanded from D.C., Maryland and Virginia into Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. |
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