We originally opened in 1998 as The Grill Store & More, an actual brick and mortar store, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Owners Michael and Ladina Hackley started the business from scratch and worked it for the first year by themselves 7 days a week. By 2000, the business had expanded to two stores in Baton Rouge, and a franchise location in New Orleans. We were still looking to expand, but seemed to have tapped the Louisiana market, and so looked to the internet for added revenues.
Welcome to ShoppersChoice.com! Welcome to our team! We are excited that you are visiting us online and are interested in who we are, where we came from, and what we do. Because our product offering went far beyond grills, we decided to change our official name to ShoppersChoice.com in 2004. A large part of this name change was to build an entirely new site that would have the capacity to become an online superstore that still offered exceptional customer service with over 2 million products. In 2005 Internet Retailer magazine listed us in the top 400 of all websites, and we were ranked as the 7th fastest growing ecommerce site in the United States.
Walmart.com is a lot like your neighborhood Walmart store. We feature a great selection of high-quality merchandise, friendly service and, of course, Every Day Low Prices. We also have another goal: to bring you the best shopping experience on the Internet.
Founded in January 2000, Walmart.com is a subsidiary of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Our headquarters is on the San Francisco Peninsula near Silicon Valley, where we have access to the world’s deepest pool of Internet executive and technical talent.
Cooking.com was founded in 1998 by a team that worked together at The Walt Disney Corporation and shared a passion for creating a great company! How did we pick Cooking? The credit goes to one of our initial investors, Idealab! They teamed us up with a cookbook publisher, and we had the perfect blend of cooking and retail knowledge to launch the best cooking web site.
At our beginning in 2003, ivgStores was a single site with just 3 of us selling a few hundred products from a dozen suppliers. Since then, we have become one of the leading and fastest growing Internet Retailers with over 400 online stores, tens of thousands of products and hundreds of manufacturing and brand name partners.
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