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UFCW Local 1776 represents workers in the state of Pennsylvania for the United Food and Commercial Workers.The larger majority of their members work in grocery stores. The number 1776 refers to the year that the United States Declaration of Independence was drafted in Philadelphia, rather than it being a sequential number of local unions.
Wakefern Food Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1946 and is based in Keasbey, New Jersey. [5] It is the largest retailers' cooperative group of supermarkets and the fourth-largest cooperative of any kind in the United States.
The company is a member of the Wakefern retailers' cooperative and does business as ShopRite and PriceRite. Inserra Supermarkets is headquartered in Mahwah, New Jersey, and operates approximately 23 stores. It is a family-owned business and is one of the 500 largest private companies in the United States. [1]
ShopRite is an American retailers' cooperative of supermarkets with stores in six states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.. Based in Keasbey, New Jersey, ShopRite consists of 50 individually owned and operated affiliates with over 300 stores, all under its corporate and distribution arm, Wakefern Food Corporation.
Pathmark was formed out of the Wakefern Food Corporation, parent company of ShopRite, Wakefern was both a wholesale operation and a retail operation; among its members was a subgroup, Supermarkets Operating Co., in Union, New Jersey, [4] formed in 1956 by Alex Aidekman, Herb Brody, and Milt Perlmutter. [5]
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Much like other retailers cooperatives, such as ShopRite, each Foodtown is independently owned and operated, with some owners operating multiple stores. Foodtown's parent company, Allegiance Retail Services, also supplies Foodtown-branded items and acts as a supplier for other independent grocers that do not operate under the Foodtown banner.
Acme Markets Inc. is a supermarket chain operating 161 stores throughout Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, the Hudson Valley of New York, and Pennsylvania and, as of 1998, is a subsidiary of Albertsons, and part of its presence in the Northeast.