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D'Allesandro's in Boise, no question. By far the best all-around grocer I've *ever* shopped, and that includes living in Portland, Austin and Seattle, cities that were (and, I maintain, still are) way more serious about food. I like their approach to sale circulars (post the competition's, mark eve...

This Metro resembles the Victor Gruen designed Penn Fruits of the same era,.

Hi,I checked for a Tartan Foods Web and found out they are at thesame place on Packer Avenue in Philadelphia as they were always at.They weren!t purchased by jetro or US Foods but by Sysco. They go by the name Sysco Tartan Foods, You beat me to the punch Gerry. i just found that out myself a while ...

If you could bring a defunct grocery store back to life who would it be? Colonial/Big Star,Penn fruit, Food Fair, Bohack's, Alpha Beta, Farmer Jack, the REAL Grand Union?
what say you?

Gerry, I don't ever recall Penn Fruit being involved in corruption. Their problem had seemed to be over innovation and bad investements, not to mention the fact that it was up against 800 pound gorilla Acme Food Fair on the other hand. seemed like the Friedlands family "bank" (proving it's...

I was surfing another message board and someone mentioned the history of the old Food Fair store (later clemens currently Giant) in Abington, outside of Philadelphia. one poster mentioned that after Food Fair went bankrupt the store became a store called Great Scot. I first thought that it was some ...

I think people underestimate their dominance in parts of NYC and especially on Long Island. On LI, only Stop and Shop poses somewhat of a threat. Walmart has no supercenters on LI (and no stores in NYC), Shoprite only has a handful of locations, and King Kullen's prices cannot compete with S&S ...

.....(cont'd) and the biggest failure of them all Food Fair/Pantry Pride/Jm Fields, the one had gobbled up the last, best and strongest Penn Fruits, the only one outside of Acme who actually gained market share during the war, a victiim of corporate corruption by its founding family, pulled up stake...

Funny comic. Acttually Ephrata Penn fruit, though it was the smallest of the four "big" chains in the area- that is Acme, A&P Food Fair and Penn Fruit itself. (not counting Pathmark which before assuming THAT banner was actually the owner of the majority if not every Shoprite in Greate...

Hi, Fleming purchased William Montgomery in 1980. Fleming Food who opwned the Triftway Name as a sponsored group supplied the stores. In 1987 or 88 Fleming purchased The Frankford Quaker Company a Co-op, who owned the Shop & Bag banner after their largest member Browns Shop & Bag pulled out...

Hi, Yes in deed, the article intereseted me. Thanks! Yes I do remember Harold Friedland and his group of Thriftways. He opperated two units in the city of Wilmington One in the Adams Shopping center that is a Super Valu today and one that was opened in the ground Floor of and old Sears Store. After...

Acme was still in NY during the 80's. I was working for Kraft Foods in Central PA and in this area of NY state as late as 1994 and these ACME stores were all open then. Off the top of my head, I can remember Pen Yan, Hornell, Bath, and Watkins Glen.... all in NY state. All of them, at that point, w...

Hello............thanks for your post. Could you help me navigate the philly.com site as to where to click to read about the subject you mentioned? Thanks, Steve Sure the trick is to go to GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVE (not general google search) and google (or just copy/paste) the phrase GREAT STORE PUT IN ...

This should be of interest to some, including Gerry Maynes (MaynesG) and especially to Steve Landry and other Food Fair Fans/Historians on this website. scouring some archives on the "internets" (namely philly.com) archives( as well as an SEC PDF file on the I found on the net concerning l...