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by yoss99
06 Nov 2007 00:09
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Old Maryland supermarket chain memorabilia
Replies: 0
Views: 3245

Old Maryland supermarket chain memorabilia

Just opened a memorabilia store for the old Maryland 48-store Food-A-Rama supermarket chain that was sold in 1985.
Company was the second largest grocery chain in Baltimore behind Giant Food.

http://www.cafepress.com/fdrama


Jeremy

http://www.fdrama.com
by yoss99
08 Jun 2006 09:33
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Baltimore, MD
Replies: 0
Views: 4562

Baltimore, MD

Major local food industry figure dies.

http://www.progressivegrocer.com/progre ... 1002648997
by yoss99
16 Apr 2006 23:07
Forum: History: USA Northeast
Topic: Grand Union
Replies: 76
Views: 78670

Grand Union in DC

FYI, Grand Union opened 10 Basics Food Warehouse stores in DC in the early 1980's and sold most of them to the Food-A-Rama chain (Baltimore, MD) in 1984. This was GU's first attempt at a high-volume warehouse market. http://www.fdrama.com When GU went bankrupt years ago, C&S Wholesalers bought t...
by yoss99
09 Mar 2006 00:32
Forum: History: USA Mid-Atlantic
Topic: Giant Food selling off old trailers, vehicles, etc.
Replies: 0
Views: 4420

Giant Food selling off old trailers, vehicles, etc.

Check out this website.
Nice pics of old Giant Food trailers and vehicles.


http://crgauction.com/auctions/giant_foods/details.php[/url]
by yoss99
20 Feb 2006 10:05
Forum: History: Drugstore Chains
Topic: Rite Aid, Walgreens and Longs
Replies: 39
Views: 27540

Rite Aid side note

In 1983, Rite Aid spun off a grocery wholesaler they called Super Rite Foods located in Harrisburg, PA. It was spun off from Louis Lehrman and Sons food wholesaler of which Alex Grass' (Rite Aid founder) in-laws were partners in. Grass took Super Rite public in 1984, made a bundle of money on that I...