Hendrik Meijer

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Geboren:	1884
Overleden:	31 MEI 1964
Aantekeningen:	Thrifty Years The Life of Hendrik Meijer Hendrik came to the United States in 1907 as a 23-year-old factory worker, socialist and atheist. He immigrated to Holland, Michigan, because he could speak Dutch there. He disliked the prevailing religiosity of his predominantly Calvinist fellow Dutch Americans, however, and in 1912 he took up barbering in Greenville, a Danish-American community 35 miles from Grand Rapids. In 1934, Hendrik, then 50, and son Fred founded the first Meijer store, the Meijer Grocery in Greenville, with $338.76 worth of merchandise obtained on credit. The Thrift Market, their Depression-born enterprise, grew into Meijer’s Thrifty Acres, the nation’s pioneer one-stop-shopping, 24/7 supercenter that combined groceries—including exceptionally high quality fruit and vegetables—with discounted soft and hard goods. Hendrik and Fred moved to Grand Rapids in the 1950s to expand their grocery chain. The company soon adopted a Dutch boy in wooden shoes for its logo, a quick way to appeal to the area’s price-conscious consumers. They bought comfortable ranch houses (Fred still lives in his today) on Grand Rapids’ northeast side, and that’s where Hank grew up and went to Creston High

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Huwelijkspartner:	Gezina Mantel	geb. 11 Juli 1886 overl. 28 Feb 1978
Huwelijk:	1912