Bashas'

Bashas' is a family-owned grocery store chain, primarily located in Arizona with two locations outside the state; one each in Needles, California, and Crownpoint, New Mexico. Its headquarters are in unincorporated Maricopa County, Arizona, near Chandler. Najeeb Basha came to the United States from Lebanon in 1886; he and his wife Najeeby moved to Arizona in 1910. The family struggled for years in retail sales in the Arizona mining towns of Ray and Sonora, facing numerous setbacks but remaining determined to succeed. The first store to officially carry the Bashas' name, opened in 1932 in Goodyear, Arizona, as a company store where employees of J. G. Boswell could purchase groceries with company scrip. Bashas' was founded by Najeeb and...