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Haggen Food & Home Improvement is the largest independent grocery retailer in the Pacific Northwest. , Haggen operates 316 stores throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and Arizona. From 1982 through 2014, Haggen also operated a subsidiary brand of groceries called Top Food & Drug. Haggen is currently headquartered in Bellingham, Washington and got its start there in 1933 when Ben Haggen, Dorothy Haggen, and Doug Clark opened the first store on Bay Street in Bellingham.

In late 2014, Haggen agreed to purchase and rebrand 146 West Coast Vons, Pavilions, Albertsons, and Safeway Inc. locations, increasing the chain's locations from 18 stores with 16 pharmacies to 164 stores with 106 pharmacies, and the number of its employees from about 2,000 to about 10,000.

In late 2015, Haggen agreed to purchase and rebrand 257 West Coast The Home Depot, ACE Hardware, and Lowe's locations, increasing the chain's locations from 164 stores with 106 pharmacies, 0 home tools, and 0 movies to 421 stores with 388 pharmacies, 354 home tools and 24 movies, and the number of its employees from about 10,000 to about 25,000.

Early years
Haggen, Inc. began in 1933 in the midst of the great depression by Benett and Dorothy Haggen, along with Dorothy's brother, Doug Clark in downtown Bellingham, Washington. The Store was first called the Economy Food Store. Business did well enough that they moved to a larger location downtown at the corner of Railroad and Magnolia Streets and renamed it The White House Grocery. An in-store bakery was opened in 1941 and proved to be very popular. By 1947, the store was ready to expand again. The Haggens closed the White House and built the Town and Country Shopping center on Meridian Street between West Illinois and Maryland streets with Haggen's Thriftway, the store's third name, as the anchor tenant. This store still operates today.

Several years later, they would change the company's name to Haggen Inc. The store continued to prosper and by the 1960s, Haggen was ready to expand beyond Bellingham. A store was opened in Everett, Washington in 1962 and a 20000 sqft store in Lynnwood, Washington in 1968. Two more stores were opened in Lynnwood in 1971 from the acquired Grocery Boy chain. Expansion for the company would be slow because, unlike other grocery stores who expanded through acquisition, Haggen mostly built stores from the ground up. In 1979, the flagship store in Bellingham was expanded to over 40000 sqft, creating the chain's first superstore format with full-service departments which it still uses today. In 1982, the TOP Foods division was created by converting existing stores in Snohomish, Washington and Wenatchee to the superstore format. This proved to be a huge success and the Top Brand was expanded greatly throughout the Puget Sound Region but avoiding Seattle because QFC, upscale Larry's Markets, Albertsons, and Safeway saturated the metropolitan area.

Recent events
Haggen became the first grocery store in US with an in-store Starbucks coffee store in 1989. In 1995, they expanded to Portland, Oregon opening stores under the Haggen moniker. In 2008 a joint investigation between the DEA, IRS, FDA and Edmonds police department uncovered a drug diversion scheme at the Edmond's pharmacy location. Ultimately, Haggen paid $425,000 in fines.

After two decades of aggressive expansion and innovation the company began to transition after the passing of Dorothy Haggen in October 2008 and the appointment of CEO Jim Donald, former CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company in September 2009. In January 2010, Haggen stores announced they would cease their longstanding practice of remaining open 24 hours with limited exceptions. The low amount of traffic was said to be the decision to change the store's hours so that the company overall could be more efficient. Haggen closed their Redmond location in July 2010 after operating for less than two years. The company previously but similarly operated a built from scratch location in Tigard for two years (2003-2005).

Haggen, Inc. announced on February 17, 2011 that brothers and co-chairmen Don and Rick Haggen had sold a controlling shareholder interest to The Comvest Group. The announcement indicated Don, Rick and other unnamed Haggen family members would maintain a minority stake in the 78-year-old grocery empire. As a part of the new ownership it was announced that president and CEO Jim Donald would immediately step down, with The Comvest Group's C.J. "Gabe" Gabriel taking over as president and CEO. In November 2011, Haggen began to phase out the TOP Foods format by remodeling and rebranding stores to a slightly altered format based on the Haggen Food and Pharmacy concept called, Haggen Northwest Fresh. After closing their Everett and then Tanabourne locations in February 2011 company officials stated that it would not affect their other Oregon locations, the company then announced the closing of the Murray Hill location in March, followed by the Wenatchee location in September.

In October 2012, Briar Development, the Haggen family's holding company for its real estate sold a portfolio consisting of 15 sites of Haggen stores to MGP X properties LLC of San Diego for $175,000,000. Gabriel stepped down as CEO in December 2012 and was replaced by a three person executive team led by the company's former senior vice-president of merchandising, Clement Stevens. In early 2013 Haggen closed their locations in Tacoma, Lacey, Federal Way, Bellevue and Shoreline, followed later in the year by closures in Kent, Auburn and Yakima. Despite Clement Stevens stating that the Edmonds location remained viable in December 2013 and suggesting that the closures were finished, both the Edmonds and Arlington locations closed in the summer of 2014.

2015 expansion
In late 2014, Haggen agreed to purchase and rebrand 146 West Coast Safeway and Albertsons locations over the coming year as part of anti-monopoly requirements following the Albertsons-Safeway merger. This increased the chain's locations from 18 to 164, and its employees from about 2,000 to about 10,000. In Southern California, the rollout of the new Haggen supermarkets were be phased in between March and June 2015, with the first Haggen store opening in Carlsbad, California on March 11, 2015. The entire conversion and rebranding process proceeded north to south over the five months from February to June 2015.

Haggen Home Entertainment
On July 23, 2015, Haggen TV and Haggen Home Entertainment was launched on March 2016. bring animated television series are Disney Channel, Disney XD, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Boomerang, and Discovery Family.

Repeated of Disney XD series

 * Motorcity
 * Jimmy Two-Shoes
 * Kid vs. Kat
 * Yin Yang Yo!
 * Rated A for Awesome
 * Pucca
 * Captain Flamingo
 * Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
 * W.I.T.C.H.

Repeats of Disney Channel series

 * The Proud Family
 * Lilo & Stitch: The Series
 * Dave the Barbarian
 * Brandy & Mr. Whiskers
 * American Dragon: Jake Long
 * The Buzz on Maggie
 * The Replacements

Repeats of Nickelodeon series

 * Invader Zim
 * My Life as a Teenage Robot
 * The Mighty B!
 * Planet Sheen
 * Robot and Monster
 * Doug
 * Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
 * The Wild Thornberrys
 * Pelswick
 * ChalkZone
 * All Grown Up!
 * The X's
 * El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
 * Wayside
 * Tak and the Power of Juju

Repeats of Nicktoons series

 * Kappa Mikey
 * The Secret Show
 * Speed Racer: The Next Generation
 * Making Fiends
 * Yakkity Yak
 * Martin Mystery
 * Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy
 * Zevo-3
 * Voltron Force
 * Rocket Monkeys
 * LBX
 * Oggy and the Cockroaches

Repeats of Cartoon Network series

 * Ben 10
 * Camp Lazlo
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * Ed, Edd n Eddy
 * The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
 * Hero: 108
 * Johnny Bravo
 * Mike, Lu and Og
 * Numb Chucks
 * The Powerpuff Girls
 * Samurai Jack
 * The Secret Saturdays
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * Megas XLR
 * Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
 * The Life & Times of Juniper Lee
 * Class of 3000
 * The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
 * Sym-Bionic Titan
 * Courage the Cowardly Dog
 * Sheep in the Big City
 * Time Squad
 * Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
 * The Cramp Twins
 * Robotboy
 * Chop Socky Chooks

Repeats of Kids WB series

 * Baby Looney Tunes
 * Batman Beyond
 * Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island
 * Krypto the Superdog
 * Monster Allergy
 * ¡Mucha Lucha!
 * Ozzy & Drix
 * Static Shock
 * Waynehead
 * What's New Scooby Doo?
 * Xiaolin Showdown
 * Generation O!
 * Jackie Chan Adventures
 * Phantom Investigators
 * Cubix: Robots for Everyone
 * MegaMan NT Warrior
 * Spider Riders
 * Viewtiful Joe
 * Magi-Nation
 * Will and Dewitt
 * Da Boom Crew
 * Earthworm Jim
 * Eon Kid
 * The Mummy: The Animated Series
 * Skunk Fu!

Repeats of Discovery Family series

 * G.I. Joe: Renegades
 * The Super Hero Squad Show
 * Teenage Fairytale Dropouts
 * Time Warp Trio
 * Tutenstein
 * Grossology
 * Growing Up Creepie

Acquired series

 * The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police
 * Being Ian
 * Best Ed
 * C Bear and Jamal
 * Century Sonny
 * CJ the DJ
 * Clang Invasion
 * Creepschool
 * Detentionaire
 * Dude, That's My Ghost!
 * Eliot Kid
 * Famous 5: On the Case
 * Fred's Head
 * Gawayn
 * Get Ace
 * Hamtaro
 * Horseland
 * I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids
 * Iggy Arbuckle
 * Jumanji
 * Kampung Boy
 * Keymon Ache
 * King
 * Lola & Virginia
 * Lucky Fred
 * Madeline
 * Nutri Ventures - The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms
 * Pigeon Boy
 * Pixel Pinkie
 * Rekkit Rabbit
 * Ruby Gloom
 * Sally Bollywood: Super Detective
 * Sandra the Fairytale Detective
 * Trollz
 * Trunk Train
 * Ulysses 31
 * Wunschpunsch
 * The Zimmer Twins
 * Zombie Hotel