JayC Food Stores is an American supermarket chain based in Petersburg, Indiana. Their stores are full-service supermarkets with seafood, frozen, deli, pantry, produce, meat departments, and pharmacies. As of May 2021, the chain operates 64 stores in Southern Indiana.
in 1863 Swiss immigrant John C. Group founded the company with his wife Elizabeth, opening their first store on South Chestnut Street in Seymour, Indiana. They were successful, passing the business down to their children, who ran it as a grocery until the 1920s when they started focusing on retail and adopted the name JayC Food Store in 1927. By 1997 JayC had more than 2,700 employees, making it the largest private retail employer in Indiana. In January 1999, Kroger acquired the John C. Group Co., which still operates 22 JayC locations. JayC has grown as a division Under Kroger's ownership, and today the store has annual sales of between $20 and $50 million.
