Mars

Mars is a local chain of Grocery stores in metropolitan Baltimore, Maryland. Mars currently operates 19 supermarket locations in the Baltimore area, the latest opened in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. The store will be replacing the old Superfresh and it was completely remodeled both inside and outside of the store. The idea for Mars supermarkets came from Joseph D'Anna in the early 1940s, whose location for his upstart grocery store was an apartment complex in Essex, Maryland, called Mars Estates. Nearby, Glenn L. Martin was developing an airplane called the Mars Flying Boat that could take off and land in water, so "Mars" seemed a perfectly logical name to instill local pride and recognition. His...