Our History

Shopko has been dedicated to providing customers with quality merchandise and services at prices that communicate value since 1962. Shopko stores focus on customer lifestyles and meeting our customers' changing needs for casual apparel, home, family, and healthcare products.

Retail formats include 134 Shopko stores, providing quality name-brand merchandise and pharmacy and optical services in small to mid-sized cities, ten Hometown formats that offer a narrower version of items in smaller communities, and five Shopko Express Rx stores, a convenient neighborhood drugstore concept.

Milestones

2009 W. Paul Jones succeeds Michael R. MacDonald as Chairman and CEO

2009 Shopko opens fourth opens prototype store in Council Bluffs, Iowa

2009 Shopko's prototype store design won first place in Chain Store Age's 2008 Retail Store of the Year design competition in the Discount Store/Mass Merchant category

2008 Shopko opens second and third prototype stores on the same day in Sussex, WI and North Branch, MN

2008 Shopko opens three Shopko Express stores - two in the Appleton area and another in downtown Green Bay

2008 Shopko opens first prototype store in Suamico, Wisconsin

2007 New Shopko logo and "my life. my style. my store." tag line introduced

2007 Shopko announces 80,000 sq ft prototype retail store to open in 2008

2006 Shopko announces the appointment of Michael R. MacDonald as Chairman and CEO

2005 Shopko Stores, Inc. acquired by Sun Capital Partners, Inc.

2005 Shopko opens three Shopko Express Rx neighborhood drug stores in northeast Wisconsin

2004 Shopko consolidates Pamida and Shopko Omaha, NE, distribution centers, 535,000 sq. ft.

2003 Shopko announces freestanding drug store prototype to open in 2005

2002 Sam Duncan named President and Chief Executive Officer

2001 Shopko Stores Inc. sales exceed $3.5 billion

2001 Jack Eugster named Chairman of the Board

2001 Shopko opens new state-of-the-art distribution center in Omaha, NE, 394,000 sq. ft.

2000 Shopko Boise, Idaho, distribution center expands to 347,000 sq. ft.

2000 Shopko DePere, WI, distribution center expands to 494,000 sq. ft.

2000 Merck acquires ProVantage

1999 Shopko acquires Pamida Holding Co., a retailer operating 148 discount stores in small rural markets

1999 William Podany succeeds Dale Kramer as President and CEO

1997 Shopko acquires Penn-Daniels Inc., a retailer operating 18 Jacks discount stores

1997 Shopko repurchases 8.2 million shares of common stock from SUPERVALU to become an independent corporation

1997 Surpasses $2 billion in sales (130 stores)

1996 Shopko President and CEO Dale Kramer named "Retailer of the Year"

1995 Shopko receives national "Discounter in Service to the Community" award

1992 Shopko Boise, Idaho, distribution center expanded to 214,000 sq. ft.

1991 Dale Kramer succeeds William Tyrrell as president

1991 Shopko spun-off by SUPERVALU and becomes independent, publicly owned company with initial public offering of 32 million shares of stock

1991 Shopko launches Vision 2000 merchandising strategy

1990 Shopko opens 100th store

1989 Shopko President and CEO William Tyrrell named "Retailer of the Year"

1988 Present corporate headquarters building opens in Green Bay, Wisconsin

1988 Surpasses $1 billion in sales (87 stores)

1988 Shopko opens seven stores in Utah

1986 Shopko opens distribution center in Boise, Idaho, 80,000 sq. ft.

1986 Shopko moves into Montana and Idaho

1985 Shopko opens distribution center in Omaha, Nebraska, 32,000 sq. ft.

1982 Shopko opens centralized optical lab

1981 Shopko opens 30th store

1978 Shopko opens first optical center

1977 Shopko surpasses $100 million in sales (21 stores)

1974 Distribution center opens in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 66,000 sq. ft.

1972 William Tyrrell succeeds James Ruben as president

1971 Shopko opens its 10th store

1971 Shopko opens the first in-store pharmacy

1971 Shopko merges with SUPERVALU Inc., a Minneapolis-based grocery wholesale company

1969 Shopko enters a second state, opening a store in Marquette, Michigan

1962 First Shopko store opens in Green Bay, Wisconsin

1961 Shopko Stores, Inc. organized in Chicago by James Ruben