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n. (plural of rouse English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: rouse)

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Rouses Supermarkets are a chain of grocery markets in the U.S. states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi with more than 5,000 employees. The company had its start as the City Produce Company, founded in Thibodaux, Louisiana by J. P. Rouse in 1923, which bought produce from local farmers in the Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, as well as the French Market in New Orleans, and shipped them around the United States. In 1960, Anthony Rouse (son of J. P. Rouse) and his cousin, Ciro DiMarco, opened a grocery store in Houma, Louisiana. In the 1970s, the company operated stores in Houma, Raceland and the Rouses’ hometown of Thibodaux. During the 1980s, the company opened new stores in South Louisiana, in the communities of Lockport, Cut Off and Morgan City.

Rouses opened its first store in Metairie in 1995 and was then the largest independent grocer in Louisiana.

In 2003, Rouses opened a store in Covington. That store was followed by other St. Tammany Parish locations in Mandeville in 2005 and Slidell in 2006.

In 2007, two years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the New Orleans area, Rouses acquired A&P’s Southern Division of 17 Sav-A-Center stores, effectively doubling the company in size, and giving the company its first stores in the city of New Orleans and in Mississippi. In 2008, Rouses acquired two additional stores in Mississippi.

In January 2009, Rouses opened a newly constructed store in Youngsville, Louisiana, a community in the Lafayette area. This location was the first in the Acadiana region for the chain, its western-most store, and the biggest grand opening event in company history.

Anthony Rouse died on March 5, 2009 at the age of 79.

In 2010, the company acquired a store in Mathews, Louisiana which was previously operated by Winn-Dixie.

In 2011, Rouses opened a 40,000-square-foot full service grocery store in the Central Business District of New Orleans ending 45 years without.

In 2013, Rouses expanded into Alabama by taking ownership of six Belle Foods stores in the Mobile area. The first of those stores opened in Theodore, Alabama on February 9, 2014.

Usage examples of "rouses".

It's your own participation that rouses your emotions most," whole thing breaks your heart, here's another.

The great scene in which the wife tells her husband the plot of a movie she has seen: he falls asleep, coma seems about to supervene until, with a tremendous effort, he rouses himself and retorts with a description of his bridge game at the club, recalling each hand in detail.

So -- to rouse the King from his bed he contrives a war between Math's kingdom and that of his neighbour, and the King rouses himself and puts on his armour and takes his sword and goes off to fight.

As Thomas Gilmartin had said of his father, this boy has something of the nature of a herald, and the pomp and splendour of county gentility feeds his imagination and rouses his ambition.

Smell -- which our age has made the least acceptable of the five, but which rouses emotion with a painful immediacy.

This tells us that, when we move a limb, all that we know of is the intention (in its conceptual form) which rouses the will and gives it its direction, and the fact of the completed deed.

Take a fairly heavy object in your hand, stretch out your arm lightly and move it slowly up and down, watching intently the sensation this operation rouses in you.

And when it rouses at last, there will not be a blade of grass in this land untouched by it.