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Just a few minutes ago I was doing a search for Photos of old Pantry Pride stores and I hit a goldmine. Temple University has a photo library full of photos of Food Fair Pantry Pride and Penn Fruit stores including photos from their early days after the chapter 11 declaration. and the sad final days...

Anyone have any info on this chain? I have heard it discussed here and there both here and on the Acme Style Blog.

CORRRECTION: Neil was correct I re-researched on Google news archives and it was 1958 when Best was aquired by FF. How soon do you mean by "soon"? I thought Food Fair bought a small chain that called its products Pantry Pride in 1967, but the store conversions never began until at least 19...

I think by 1970 all of the stores in the Philadelphia region were converted to Pantry Pride. The ones that they did not convert were the older stores that had no future and were closed when the leases expired. Some of those I remember were Adams and the Roosevelt Blvd., Tulip and Allegheny and I be...

At 23rd and South Streets there was a Best Market. Food Fair acquired the chain in 1957 or 58. It was one of the stores they changed over to Food Fair and later to Pantry Pride. The last I heard it was still a supermarket. Ah Yes! Youre probably referring to the South Square (Thriftway) Market. Thi...

Just wondering. I go to Downtown Philadelphia from time to time and if I needed to pick up something grocery-wise on the way home I usually go to the Superfreshes on Pine street and South Street or the Wholefoods on South street and I was just wondering , but what I want to speak about is Historical...

I hope someone can help me on this, because is something I had been wanting to know for many years now. I remember reading Supermarket News in the mid late 90s about the two different Finast chains after Pick N Pay owner Julius Kravitz bought the chain in 1978. Though I know that PNP was a Ohio (Mid...

Merry Christmas! Smyrna is in central/southern Delaware, a little north of Dover and not far east of Chestertown, Maryland (home of a restored Acme A Frame). The Chestertown Super Fresh may have replaced the small Centennial A&P downtown which is today a Dollar General. I believe Zayre may have...

Hi! The first A&P in Smyrna became a Goodwill store. The first A&P in the Smyrna Mart became a furniture store, then an Zayers,then an Aimes and since has been split up into smaller stores. Hope It Helps Gerry Where is Smyrna in Delaware ? Kinda off topic but this info is a first I didn't k...

Hi, Safeway had stores in Delaware for twenty years untill yje 80!s when they pulled out of the state. They were not sucessful then and they are trying to get out of Delaware now. Sometimes a chain just dosen!t make it certain areas no matter how good an opperator they are, As for Acme having only ...

From what I've gathered the belief was always that within the Philly city limits people were more pro-union, and as such both Clemens and Genuardi's unofficially would never go into the city. The fear would be that if they opened a store in the city, the employees would be more likely to unionize; ...

Oh yes, the Kmart closing has been in our papers for a couple weeks now! Perhaps the Pathmark will follow? I seriously wonder how long Sears Holdings, A&P, Safeway, and Rite Aid can all hold on. The Wine & Spirits store in South Philly sounds extremely profitable. This was briefly a PLCB &q...

I still wonder where the A&P was in this part of the city. There had to be one somewhere. We know there was Acme (now Oregon Chinese Market), Food Fair (later Channel, now ALDI), Penn Fruit (later Thriftway, now CVS), and Penn Fruit (later Acme, now Ross). The Acme on Oregon Ave is actually a V...

What is the difference between these two chains? Do the two have different franchise opportunities? Who bought who? What is the difference between these two chains? Do the two have different franchise opportunities? Who bought who? No there is no elemental difference between the two. however the tw...

I remember a classic Centennial A&P that became a Plus, it closed and was vacant for a number of years untiil a deli and catering place and a Thrift Drug Moved in. then in the 90s the deli closed and Giant (PA) took over the property bulldozed the old building and built a new store there. Do yo...