Take it from Mr. Pig: When it comes to value and freshness, you can't beat Piggly Wiggly. With over 600 stores in 17 states, Piggly Wiggly has been bringing home the bacon for millions of American families since 1916. Today, we're one of the best-known and best-loved brands in America...

Piggly Wiggly®, America's first true self-service grocery store, was founded in Memphis, Tenn. in 1916 by Clarence Saunders. In grocery stores of that time, shoppers presented their orders to clerks who gathered the goods from the store shelves. Saunders, a flamboyant and innovative man, noticed that this method resulted in wasted time and expense, so he came up with an unheard-of solution that would revolutionize the entire grocery industry: he developed a way for shoppers to serve themselves.