The Mississippi River forms most of Arkansas's eastern border, except in Clay and Greene counties where the St. Francis River forms the western boundary of the Missouri Bootheel, and in dozens of places where the current channel of the Mississippi has meandered from where it had last been legally specified. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri, its eastern border with Tennessee and Mississippi, and its western border with Texas and Oklahoma.
Arkansas is a land of mountains and valleys, thick forests and fertile plains. The so-called Lowlands are better known by names of their two regions, the Delta and the Grand Prairie. The Arkansas Delta is a flat landscape of rich alluvial soils formed by repeated flooding of the adjacent Mississippi. Further away from the river, in the southeast portion of the state, the Grand Prairie consists of a more undulating landscape. Both are fertile agricultural areas.
The Delta region is bisected by an unusual geological formation known as Crowley's Ridge. A narrow band of rolling hills, Crowley's Ridge rises from 250 to 500 feet (150 m) above the surrounding alluvial plain and underlies many of the major towns of eastern Arkansas.
Northwest Arkansas is part of the Ozark Plateau including the Boston Mountains, to the south are the Ouachita Mountains and these regions are divided by the Arkansas River; the southern and eastern parts of Arkansas are called the Lowlands. All of these mountains ranges are part of the U.S. Interior Highlands region, the only major mountainous region between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains. The highest point in the state is Mount Magazine in the Ozark Mountains; it rises to 2,753 feet (839 m) above sea level.
Arkansas is home to many caves, such as Blanchard Springs Caverns. It is currently the only U.S. state in which diamonds are mined.
Acme Markets - Features wholly owned subsidiary of Albertsons Inc., a food and drug retailer in the United States. Company profile, employment details, store locator, and recipes.
Affiliated Foods - Members-only retail grocery store guide to subsidiary stores, company history, and job opportunities. Little Rock, AR.
Albertsons Inc. - Operates supermarkets, combination food-drug stores, and warehouse stores. Includes a store locator, employment details, and company overview.
Aldi International - Supermarket retail profile, career opportunities, weekly specials, and location maps.
A and P Food Stores - Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company - Operating a number of chain food and drug stores in 16 US states, as well as Canada and Washington, D.C.
ASDA - Features Britain's food and clothing superstore and subsidiary of Wal-Mart. Company news, employment opportunities, store finder, and customer service.
Associated Supermarkets - New York City metro area Supermarket with over 130 stores. Includes store locations, weekly sales and store history.
Brookshire Grocery Company - Features the privately owned grocery operating stores in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Customer service, store locations, webzine, and employment opportunities.
Carrefour group - Official site offers complete financial information and information on the group's international presence, banners and brands
Cash Wise - Grocery store retailer company profile, job opportunities, weekly specials, and store finder to locations in the upper Midwest of the United States.
Dominick's Finer Foods - Chicago based grocer with locations throughout the Midwest. Weekly promotions, policies, and a store locator.
Fine Food Digest - UK fine food retail trade magazine including news, new products and Good Food Retailing articles.
Food 4 Less - Information on retail supermarket services, departments, promotions, weekly ads, and store location finder.
The Food Emporium - Grocery store with finer foods. Specialize in groceries like caviar, and aged beef.
Food Lion - Corporate overview of retail grocery company located in over 1,200 stores in 11 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Career opportunities, weekly specials, and location finder.
FoodRetail.ca - Information on the food retailing industry including links to food retailers around the world.
Fred Meyer Inc. - Retail supermarket company features departments, weekly specials, career opportunities, store locations, and vendor news.
Fresh Brands Inc. - Combines innovative thinking and sophisticated marketing capabilities with buying clout in order to build strong supermarket brands.
Grocery Outlet - Independently operated bargain grocery store outlets. Store photographs, locations, maps, store hours, recipes, games, and general information.
Hannaford Bros. Co. - Company and corporate overview of retail supermarket and grocery operations, career opportunities, and store locations in the Eastern United States.
Hilander Foods - Illinois division of Kroger's provides company highlights, weekly specials, store locations, and career opportunities.
Hy-Vee - Profiles employee-owned corporation operating more than 200 retail stores in seven Midwestern states. Company history, career opportunities, weekly specials, store locations, and contacts.
IGA, Inc. - IGA grocery stores directory, services, history and consumer information. Also links to international IGA sites.
Ingles Markets, Incorporated - Operates chain of retail supermarkets and milk processing and packaging business. (Nasdaq: IMKTA).
Jewel-Osco Grocery Store - Corporate news, retail grocery history, investor relations, weekly specials, and store locator of this Midwest Division of Albertson's, Inc.
Keystore - UK chain of retailers selling snacks, drinks, grocery, alcohol, chilled and frozen food. Includes a store finder.
Koolall Manufacturing - custom made stainless steel fabrication, refrigerated display units for the food industry
The Kroger Company - Retail food chain corporate history, news, store locator, operations profile, employment details, and overview of food, pharmacy, gifts, and savings available.
Larry's Markets, Inc. - A specialty foods grocery store chain serving the greater metropolitan Seattle area..
McCaffrey's Online Market - Grocery Delivery Service - Web site for McCaffrey's supermarkets featuring information to help visitors get the most from their food purchases.
Minyard Food Stores - Texas chain of food stores including Minyard, Carnival, and Sack n Save.
Nash Finch Company - A leading food retail and distribution company in the United States.
Piggly Wiggly Grocery Stores - Features America's first true self-service grocery store, now with over 750 stores servicing communities in 18 states. Company history, corporate overview, and store locator.
PriceSmart Foods - Grocery chain located in British Columbia, Canada.
Progressive Grocer - Monthly trade magazine for food retailers. Covers technology, marketing, logistics, and consumer purchasing patterns.
Publix Supermarkets - Retail supermarket chain.
Riesbeck's Food Markets, Inc. - Grocery store chain serving the Upper Ohio Valley Virginia. Includes company history, store locations, and employment application.
Royal Ahold - International supermarket operator, based in The Netherlands. News, facts, investor relations and career opportunities.
Safeway Stores - US supermarket chain. Site includes recipe ideas, a personalized shopping list, and a store locator.
Santonis Super Market - Grocery stores serving Baltimore, Maryland offering grocery shopping online.
Save-On-Foods - Retail grocer profile, company history, and information about nutrition, medicine, specialty departments, sales and events. Features recipes, home menu suggestions, as well as health and wellness.
Schnucks - Features privately-held chain of more than 90 supermarkets in St. Louis and the midwestern United States. Press releases, job opportunities, weekly specials, and customer line.
Schultz Sav-O Stores, Inc. - Owns, franchises, operates retail supermarkets which sell groceries. (Nasdaq: SAVO).
Shaws Supermarket and Star Market - Corporate overview of retail grocery chain, associate newsletter, career opportunities, promotions, weekly specials, and store locator.
Sur la Table - U.S. chain selling specialty foods and kitchen goods. Online sales and directory of stores.
ThriftWay Shop n Bag - Information on supermarket services, departments, recipes, meals, health, nutrition, manufacturers, promotions, shopping, weekly ads, and store locations.
Urban Fare: a specialty foods experience - a fresh, healthful, supermarket-style, fine-food lover's heaven dedicated to specialty foods. Our site features recipes, in-store menus, home menu suggestions, as well as health and wellness tips for the urban dweller
Wegmans - Regional supermarket chain. Information on store departments, locations and the shoppers club along with featured recipes and online shopping available.
Whole Foods Market - Owns and operates chain of natural foods supermarkets which sell meat and poultry free of growth hormones and antibiotics, unprocessed grains and cereals, gourmet foods such as beer and cheese, vitamins, and body care products.
Wild Oats Markets - US and Canadian supermarkets featuring organic groceries, chemical and preservative-free foods, supplements, cruelty free body care, and environmentally friendly house products.
Winco Foods - WinCo foods, employee ownership plan, large scale grocery, excellent benefits, in top 500 privately held companies, quality products at unbeatable market prices.
Winn-Dixie Stores - Food and drug store corporate profile, company history, employment opportunities, vendor details, and investor information. Features store locator and weekly special sales.
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