Groceteria.com

The Newton New Jersey store was actualy built in the early 60!s. Most of these stores of this type were expanded in the late 80!s ,Elkton Md, and Pike Creek Delaware come to mind into the Castle type stores. The others of this type were replaced or for the most part have been closed. ( Kent Island M...

Acme had store only in Berkley and Jefferson counties in West VA.. But that store from the back could pass for several Acmes that I have worked in. Acme never had stores south of West Va. The Sav A lot on Mckean Avenue in Charletoi P.A. sure was an Acme A Frame. Its Twin can be found completely reno...

Acme Markets today announced that they will close four stores as part of Super Valu!s previously announced 50 Store reduction plan. Collegeville a 1980!s style store, West Chester, a Unit built in the early 60!sand updated and expanded many times,Ambler an old unit fromthe early 50!s and Newton Nj a...

The only remaining A&P supermarket outside of its core market is finally closing. Now, the northern most A&P store is Pleasant Valley, NY. Also, the old A&P store in Mt. Vernon is also closing soon. According to the Daily Star newspaper( http://www.thedailystar.com) January seven issue,...

. This has got to be one of the saddest, most dire looking operating stores... Hi, I have seen worse in places like nyc,Jersey City and Philadelphia. I just guessingthe area that this store is in is poor and understored. \Having cleaned up a few of these( reminds me of and old Finast i worked In) A ...

Hi, I seem to remember towards the end of Pantry Prides run in Florida,that John Castamadides ( god I think I Butchered the spelling of his name) the owner of Red Apple Supermarkets purchased the chain or was it just some of the stores.Would any body know for sure? Just something that was banging a...

Yes, the unit that you are speaking of is located on Namans Road across from the Acme, it began life as a Channel Lumber Store. Genuardi stores in Delaware that have been conveted to the Safeway banner are the former Thriftway on Us Route 40 and Route7 in Bear and the unit located on route 40 and 89...

Hi,Its been a lot of years, but I believe that you may be correct about the location of the Patmark. It!s funny, First National did every thing they could to make that store work. They tried several formats, Super Finast ( First Nationals short lived low price banner) Finast Big Buys( a concept that...

I remember the A&P in Red Hook on Route 9 In Dutchess County. It was a verry well maintained Store and I believe that it also opened in the verry early 1950!s. It did not have power belts. but pulls on its Check stands. It had and Iced Produce Rack and its wooden Meat Box served as the stores cu...

Yes the MenloPark Mall did have a Finast thta was attached to the mall but only had and outside entrance. Themall also had a Pathmark on the otherside of the mall entrance from the Finast, that store had a Mall entrance. The Finast never was a Safeway but was a former Pantry Pride. Finast had two ot...

Hi I Have edited my previous entry with the correct web Thanks

I was doing some research on The John T Oconnor /Okeefe Grocery Company the company that would be renamed First National and came upon an article about 163 Merrimack Street wich was a grocery store from about 1860 and would becomeone of the first First National stores. The web is http://www.ecommuni...

Hi, No sooner did I log off did i remember that their was one more Marina Safeway that I did Forget! One located on route 113 in Georgetown Delaware. It two closed when Safeway left the state and it to became a Parkers Thriftway as did the unit in Pocomoke City Md. Like the Dover Unit it was an inta...

Hi, On the same topic Safeway ran at least six marina style stores on the maryland Eastern Shore that closed about the same time as the stores in Delaware as part of a Safeway Nation wide downsizing, that saw all of the units south and east of Easton Maryland close. i simply can!t think of all of th...

Hi,The Marina Safeway In Dover was built in the early 1960!s and closed when the chain left the state in the late 70!s early 1980!s.It then became a Bill Cook Thriftway untill late 1999 when the Cooks decided to get out of the Grocery business and closed all five of their stores. Shorlly afterwards,...