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The grocery chain that would come to be named QFC in 1963<ref name=Times_110797/> was founded in 1955 with the first store at 6600 [[Roosevelt, Seattle|Roosevelt]] Way N.E. in [[Seattle]]<ref name=Times_110797/> by a group headed by Vern Fortin, the former president of [[Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakeries]] and founder of Vernell's Fine Candies. Croco merged his store with QFC in 1960, and remained involved in the company until his death in 1991 at the age of 65,<ref>{{Cite news|title=QFC Grew from 4 Stores to Major Chain|last=Gorlick|first=Arthur|date=November 8, 1997|work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]|page=A4}}</ref> though in 1986 he sold QFC to Seattle investment firm Sloan, Adkins & Co.,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1986/8601020285.asp|title=QFC Grocery Stores to be Sold|last=Ramsey|first=Bruce|date=January 18, 1986|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|access-date=May 21, 2009|page=A3}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> which [[Initial public offering|took QFC public]] in 1987.<ref name=Times_110797/>
[[Christopher A. Sinclair]] became the CEO in 1996; the following year, QFC purchased the Uddenberg grocery company, which operated Thriftway and Stock Market stores throughout western Washington. In late 1997, QFC was sold to Portland-based [[Fred Meyer]],<ref name="Times_110797">{{cite news|url=httphttps://communityarchive.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971107&slug=/2570906/fred-meyer-to-buy-qfc|title=Fred Meyer to Buy QFC|last=Moriwaki|first=Lee|date=November 7, 1997|work=[[The Seattle Times]]|access-date=May 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809183855/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971107&slug=2570906|archive-date=August 9, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=bgmvss>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jk5WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4-sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6136%2C1914446 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=Associated Press |last=McCall |first=William |title=Fred Meyer's big move shows firm's strength, stamina |date=November 8, 1997 |page=5B}}</ref> and several months later in May 1998, Kroger announced its intention to acquire Fred Meyer (and QFC),<ref name="Times 102098">{{cite news|url=httphttps://communityarchive.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19981020&slug=/2778731/attention-shoppers-weve-been-sold---again----as-grocery-giants-take-over-customers-fret-about-choice|title=Attention Shoppers: We've Been Sold — Again|last1=Matassa Flores|first1=Michele|date=October 20, 1998|work=The Seattle Times|access-date=May 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809184326/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19981020&slug=2778731|archive-date=August 9, 2018|url-status=live|last2=Heim|first2=Joe}}</ref><ref name=twbdd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-tNRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Zm8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6052%2C9766080 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |last=Dunn |first=Christine |title=Kroger in $12 billion deal to buy Fred Meyer |date=October 20, 1988 |page=D1}}</ref> which was approved a year later. The Roosevelt store operated until 2012; it closed on May 5 to make way for construction of the [[Roosevelt station (Sound Transit)|Roosevelt light rail station]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140617223623/http://www.roosiehood.com/2012/04/make-room-for-light-rail-roosevelt-qfc-closure-just-weeks-away/ Make room for light rail: Roosevelt QFC closure just weeks away] ''Roosiehood'', April 19, 2012</ref>
A Fred Meyer store at the [[Broadway Market (Seattle)|Broadway Market]] on Seattle's Capitol Hill was replaced by a QFC in 2004.<ref>{{cite news |last=Frey |first=Christine |date=June 15, 2004 |title=QFC store will replace Broadway's Fred Meyer |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/qfc-store-will-replace-broadway-s-fred-meyer-1147238.php |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |accessdate=September 12, 2023}}</ref>
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