is one to the REWE company belonging branch chain with the emphasis on food sales.

The name of the chain decreases/goes back to the food buyer Cornelius (*1877, "† 1956). This created 1897 in the Venloer road in Cologne honour field the Cologne consumer institute, which consisted first only of a 40 square meters large shop. For conditions at that time and even for today's the shop offered some characteristics: It was led by two women, nut/mother and aunt of the owner, and had been opened in the evening in the morning of 4 o'clock to 23 o'clock - also at sunning and holidays.

opened later further branches in the Rhine country: 1904 it possessed Rheini department store for food 12 shops under the designation, already 1933 145. After the Second World War he built the destroyed shops and introduced the self-service. In this connection it is considered as the inventors of the before-packed food, which was counted up to then individually from bags, crates or barrels and weighed -. Also the self-mark is to be to due to Cornelius which let products of the house provide with the label "Cornelia".

1984 took over REWE somewhat more than half of the branches, finally 1989 the remainder. The new Slogan reads The freshness."

Trivia

Today there are markets only in the Rhine country to few Cologners and Bonn quarters with high senior portion in the inhabitant shank. Here the mark was established in such a way that for some, mostly older Rhine countries the sentence became "Isch jonn the the synonym for buying absolutely. But the end of the mark is not to be stopped: 2006 is to be changed over the last branches to the mark REWE.

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