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Owner of Pet Food Warehouse battles chain stores with personal touch 05/08/17 |

Katie’s in La Verne is the corporate flagship store of the PET DEPOT® franchise chain. If you love pets, you will love our store! Every imaginable premium pet supply, product, food and then some is available. If we don’t have it – we will get it for you. In addition, our staff knows how to help solve all your basic animal care problems or how to bribe your pet with the best-baked treats in the San Gabriel Valley. Our store features expert grooming, tropical fish, pets and accessories for nearly every kind of small animal. This is your pets’ place for toys, chews and treats! Plus all the other basic stuff you need to keep your pet happy and trouble free.

In the summer of 2000, Seattle’s largest chain of small format pet stores became insolvent. When we learned that these stores were about to close and that their staffs were about to lose their jobs, we saw the opportunity to save sixty jobs and eight neighborhood stores—and to take our approach to healthy nutrition for dogs and cats to Seattle.

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Pets Gone Healthy offers a complete line of premium pet products for your pet not found in larger retail chain stores. Here at Pets Gone Healthy we take pride in knowing that all of the products that we carry will help to enhance the health and well being of your pet.

We are committed to carrying only the best foods free of by-products, chemical preservatives and additives. We are often asked why we don’t sell many of the “well known” brands of commercial pet foods and the answer is very simple: if we wouldn’t offer it to our own pets, we will never offer it to yours. We take pride in our products and only offer what we consider some of the best foods in the industry. We carefully scrutinize our products before we bring it to our shelves and we select for healthfulness, quality and value so that you can shop with confidence.

We also carry a wide variety of fine gifts and accessories for pets and their people. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments.
Pet specialty chains

The pet store industry continues to grow in spite of increased competition from supermarkets, mass merchandisers and online retailers which offer consumers more convenience at lower prices. In 2016, the generated roughly 18.53 billion U.S. dollars in revenue.

PetSmart was the largest pet store chain for specialty pet supplies in 2016, with a total of 1,500 stores in North America. The company also provides a variety of animals for sale and adoption, such as birds, fish and reptiles. Pet grooming services, dog training, and pet hotel and day care facilities are part of the company’s growing portfolio. Moreover, PetSmart employs approximately 53,000 associates and has store operations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

PetSmart and PETCO were the largest pet store chains in the United States, in 2016. U.S. branches of and experienced a constant increase in annual revenue over a six-year period.

Fourth-place Pet Supplies Plus had about 375 store operations in the North American region in 2016. This franchise business sets itself apart by offering all-natural food products.

The statistic displays the leading pet specialty chains in North America in 2015, based on the number of stores. In that year, San Diego-based PETCO operated 1,433 stores in North America. The total number of pet specialty stores amounted to 5,553."These smaller chains are really successful because they get to know their customers," said Steve King, president of the Pet Industry Distributors Assn., which works with pet product wholesalers. "They can be much more nimble in the marketplace and bring on products that are new and trending and hot."