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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 ar...

I did a little research Giola was sold to Bordens and then again to American Pasta.I came across an article in the Buffalo Business Journal that Bordens closed the Gioia Plant laying off 150 people a few years back a victim of the imported pasta craze in the United States. As you know the Pasta busi...

I have seen Rotele products at Acme and at Redners as wellas other Super Value chains in this area Delaware. I don!t think that they are blowing down any doors toget to them , but they seem to sell enough to remain in distribution.

God I am Old! I remember Models and Great Eastern Mills Stores! Models had a store on Rote 17 and Essex Street in Lodi N.J.. It did a tremendous grocery business. Its main competition was the Finast on Essex street in Hackensack and the original Pathmark on the same street in Hackensack. A&P ope...

Maybe because I simply hated the ride from West Point to HighLand Mills it simply felt like thirty miles and yes I knew that the GU in Highland Mills is the post Office .My Aunt lived in town and is buried there. I also knew of the many G.U.s that were in Monroe and am sorry to hear about the closin...

I was speaking of Highland Falls out side of the gates of West Point of course! As you know the only market on the grounds of West Point is the commisary! Frankly I simply could not remember the name of the town to save my life! Funny , I can picture the town the store and even some of the people I ...

Grand Union had two units no more then a half of mile apart on Route 9W in Stony Point New York in the seventies and eigthies. The original store was built in the late fifthies and the newer one in the sixties. The older one was closed on Sundays, both of them did fairly well in this small town and ...

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Thanks for clearing that up! That history was fascinating!
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I don!t know any thing about the store but i do Know that the home belonged to former Senator and Secreatry ot the treasury James C Blaine from Maine. Blaine a republican ran for President several times and was a grafter! What a wonderful picture i never saw a Safeway that small, I wounder if it ran...

Hi,i contacted my friend with Acme management but he did not work in that unit having been transfered to New jersey at that time. To the best of his knowledege that store was located over the Baltimore City line on the Pulaski Pike ( U.S. route 40). It closed in early 1988, the other Baltimore units...

Hi, i am not sure of the street Adress never having been to that store but it did exist and the shock and disbelief that Acme would close such a store was amazing at the time. I amoff tommorow I will call and old friend that still is in management with Acme that I belive worked in that store. If any...

Hi, As far as I know these units in Berkely and Jefferson Counties were built by Acme and not aquired via purchase of another chain. You are correct that sometimes when a chain purchases another chain they do inherit that chains union contract under a sucession clause. I believe that these stores cl...

Hey great to hear that their isn!T any animosity and that their is a kinded soul out in maine. But the truth of the matter is Acme of Philadelphia did have stores in West Virgina at onetime in Berkley and Jefferson Counties. It is to be found as evidence in the Collective Bargaining Book Local 27 fo...

Hi, Such annimosity, If the person from West Virgina says these were not connected to the Acme Markets in Philadelphia I belive him now, I believed him months ago when he did post them. I found it interesting and verry much fun just like a good detective story,that this mystery was solved. This said...

Hi,Perhaps this was before your time! The Finast Closed in the mid seventies, however the lease did not run out untill 1980 or so. Finast still had the building siting with all the equiptment refrigeration signage registers etc windows uncovered all that time.The Pathmark was still open and you did ...