Smart & Final Snapshot
Smart & Final caters to caterers -- as well as small businesses, restaurants, and individual households in the western US. Its about 250 non-membership warehouse stores stock groceries, party supplies, paper products, cleaning supplies, and more, in bulk sizes and quantities. The stores operate under the Smart & Final and Cash & Carry names in urban and suburban areas in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as well as northern Mexico. (It sold its Henry's Farmers Markets and Sun Harvest stores to Sprouts in 2011.) Founded in 1871 in Los Angeles, it later took the names of owners J. S. Smart and H. D. Final. The chain is owned by an affiliate of the private equity firm Apollo Management.