Name that company

I trace my roots back to 1867, when two brothers launched a grocery business in Belgium with a lion as its logo — and to 1887, when a couple in the Netherlands opened a grocery store. These companies eventually merged, forming me. Today, with a market value recently near $30 billion, I’m a top global food retailer, with more than 20 leading local brands, including Giant, Food Lion, Hannaford, Stop & Shop and Peapod. I boast 6,700 stores worldwide and 370,000 workers, serving 50 million customers weekly. I raked in more than 62 billion euros in 2018. Who am I?

Last week’s trivia answer

I trace my roots back to the 1876 demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell’s electric telephone. I was formed by the massive 2000 merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, and over the years, I gobbled up companies such as MCI Communications. Today, based in New York City, I’m a telecom giant, with my wireless network covering 98 percent of the U.S. My brands and businesses today include Yahoo, TechCrunch, AOL, Tumblr, Engadget, Autoblog and HuffPost, and my content reaches more than a billion people globally. My market value recently topped $235 billion. I have more than 140,000 employees. Who am I? (Answer: Verizon Communications)