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Food Fair, also known by its successor name Pantry Pride, was a large supermarket chain in the United States. It was founded by Samuel N. Friedland, and his brother George I. Friedland who opened the first store (as Reading Giant Quality Price Cutter) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the late 1920s. As of 1957, Food Fair had 275 stores, and at ...
A boarded-up Pantry Pride in Fort Lauderdale in 1997. Former customers of Pantry Pride in Normandy Isles in Miami Beach check out signs on its closing. A Pantry Pride store in South Florida.
Pantry Pride. A store well-known throughout Florida — at least until Publix burst onto the scene — Pantry Pride got its start in the 1960s. The birth of the store was the result of Food Fair ...
J.M. Fields was a discount department store chain based in Salem, Massachusetts. The chain expanded rapidly in the early 1960s from a regional New England enterprise, opening stores along the entire eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida. Food Fair Corporation purchased the growing J.M. Fields business in 1961, and in 1965 the home office was ...
By 1971, the company had nearly 80 stores and sales of $370 million (~$2.13 billion in 2023). However, rivals such as A&P, Food Fair (later known as Pantry Pride) and Acme were opening discount stores of their own, and in 1973, Acme's 173 Philadelphia-area stores launched a price war against Penn Fruit's 12 warehouse markets. This move set off ...
Genuardi's Family Markets. Bakery, dairy, deli, floral, frozen foods, general grocery, meat, produce, seafood, snacks, Starbucks, and Western Union. Genuardi's Family Markets L.P. was a chain of supermarkets located in the Northeastern United States. The store was family-owned. In 2000, it was purchased by Safeway.
In 2018 GPM acquired 273 stores from E-Z Mart Inc., with this acquisition GPM brings Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas into its fold and the store count to 1,300+. [11] On April 2, 2019, GPM announced that, through a subsidiary, they had acquired Port St. Lucie, Florida based Town Star , adding 18 locations, and entering the Florida market.
Acme Markets Inc. (stylized as ACME Markets) is a supermarket chain operating 161 stores throughout Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, the Hudson Valley of New York, and Pennsylvania and, as of 1998, is a subsidiary of Albertsons, and part of its presence in the Northeast. It is headquartered in East Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania ...