Daniel Reeves Stores was a grocery store chain which numbered 297 units in the New York City area in 1922.Chain stores:their management and operation, Walter Sumner Hayward, Percival Albert Frederick White, John S. Fleek, Hugh McIntyre, McGraw-Hill, 1922, pg. 334. The business was founded by the father and uncle of Dan Reeves. The founders worked their way up from fruit peddlers.
Merger
Daniel Reeves Stores merged with Safeway, Inc, in 1941. The merger was announced by James Reeves, president of Daniel Reeves Stores, Inc., and included its eastern chain of 408 grocery stores.The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, Volume 81and 82, F.H. Hobbs & Company, 1941, pg. 43.
References
External links The GG Archives – Article About James Reeves, who with his brother, Daniel Reeves, Built the Daniel Reeves, Inc. Grocery Store Chain (1923)