Plaid Pantry

Plaid Pantry is a chain of privately-owned convenience stores based in Beaverton, Oregon, USA. Of one hundred seven locations, three are in the Seattle, Washington area, eight are near Salem, and the balance are in the Portland metropolitan area. Plaid Pantries, Inc. traces its founding to 1960 by John Piacentini. The name refers to the plaid decoration originally on both the store buildings and the roadside pole signs. Plaid Pantry can date its origins to Handy Pantry, a California company which built multiple stores in the Portland area, with the financial backing of Alpenrose Dairy. Stores built from scratch by Handy Pantry/Alpenrose were under the Handy Pantry name; stores made by converting an existing structure were referred to as...