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Hi, Thanks, Yes the stores name is Price Rite.

Hi, I can give you8 some of the information that you wanted, When I moved down to Delaware in 1984. I was as account manager with Quaker Oats responsible for Fleming Foods. ( I worked for Acme in the evenings at that time I never met the founder of Pickwell , but I called on Mitch Saffrin who purcha...

Hi, It seems that perhaps my memory did go on vacation with out me, so I took the time to do a little research on the90!s with Finast in New Jersey. According to Cruise Close Outs checking both the Finast and MayFair Foodtown sections here is the time line. 1993 Finast Stores in West Chester and Put...

Hi, You have done nothing to be forgiven for ! You are rigth about Finast using the Edwards name in some New England stores prior to the Mayfair transaction. Their stores were dying for over a twenty year period and the company under Madison Funds, Pick & Pay and Ahold tried every thing under th...

Hi, Your history of Finast in New Jersey is almost correct. Safeway sold to Finast. Finast became part of Pick & Pay. Finast sold all of the stores in New Jersey to Mayfair Food Town .Mayfair sold their whol;e opperation back to Finast which included most of the original stores, plus all of the ...

Super Finast was a format used in the 60s. Those stores did not give S&H green stamps. It would have been similar in concpet to Food Fair's Pantry Pride, Acme's Super Saver, etc. They dropped the "Super" when all of the stores dropped stamps. Edwards was a byproduct of the merger with...

Actualy your are only partialy correct ,in the NewYork Division of Finast they had stopped giving S&H Green stamps years before the Super Finast concept was rolled out. I know I lved it. It was simply an attempt to copmpete with Shop Rite the areas price leader. They lowered the prices on 4,000 ...

Hi, Why did A&P sell 8 O Clocvk Coffee and other brands IE compass Foods. Simple A&P was in deep financial trouble and needed to raise money. I forgot how much this raised but it paid off a lot of debt. Short sided ,probably especialy when every one ofA&Ps competitors now carry 8 O Clock...

Hi, Weis had a store in Newburgh of of route 84 near the Mall for a lot of years. It was a low volume store and I can!t imagine that they would come back into this market. Redners opened the Middletown store because on of the brothers that manage the company had a summer home near by. Sadly he passe...

Hi, I used to call on Drexiline Market years ago,going back to the days when they purchased groceries from Fleming. As many times as I was in and out of that store, i got to admit I realy don!t know what it began life as. It looked like it migth have been a square box Acme from the early 60!s . Food...

Hi, Yes Grand Union never did have a store in Philadelphia. However. they were in the Baltimore /DCMarket for about twenty years. They changed their store names to Basics, then sold them to Metro and then to Supervalu, who renamed them to Shoppers World. As to being in the city limits of Baltimore I...

Hi,This former Acme was built as an Acme and expanded about ten years ago. It is close to a high crime area and I was there several years ago after the last renovation when two young men got into a figth over a girl and shot it out with uzies. Thet shot up several cars in the lot our front windows, ...

Hi, Alabama country Farms refers to the town Of Alabama Ny, It is a chain of six stores in Gennesee County Ny. That is about all I know of them. I hope that that helps

Hi, The only former Acmes in New Castle that I know about are on Route 9 in the Swanwick section, built in the 50!s it had a large tower sign on the end of the lot.It was renovated in the early 90!s and was sold to Rite Aide who gutted it and still opperates it today. The other is located on Route 1...

Hi, The original store was once pointed out to me by some one who worked in Newtown Square Acme, but for the love of pete I can!t think of where he told me it was located. Would you Know? The Acme in Chestertown replaced a unit on High Street that was built in the 40!s and is now a social services b...