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The Food Emporium grew throughout the 1990s, converting many of its New York-area A&P stores to The Food Emporium and expanding the chain to New Jersey. The 2000s brought new, stronger competition to the New York area, and the chain shrank, receding mostly to Manhattan. At the time of A&P's liquidation in 2015, The Food Emporium had 11 stores.
Until 1982, A&P also was a large food manufacturer. [7] A&P was founded in 1859 as "Gilman & Company" by George Gilman, who opened a small chain of retail tea and coffee stores in New York City, and then expanded to a national mail order business. The firm grew to 70 stores by 1878; by 1900, it operated almost 200 stores.
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (GAP), owner of the A&P supermarket chain, may sell its Food Emporium stores as the 151-year-old company continues to try to turn around its finances by cutting ...
The grocery stores were sold to A&P in 1983, [8] [9] operating under the name Kohl's Food Store, and later Kohl's Food Emporium. In February 2003, A&P put the Kohl's Food Stores up for sale, [10] as part of an effort to reduce debt. That same year, A&P closed all Kohl's Food Stores locations and the Kohl family left remaining management.
A&P began placing many of its stores up for auction shortly thereafter, and Acme placed bids on 76 of them, eventually taking the leases to 71 stores in all from A&P's namesake brand and its subsidiaries Pathmark, Waldbaum's, Superfresh, and The Food Emporium. [10]
In November 2015, Key Food completed the purchase of 23 stores from the bankrupt A&P, increasing its total number of stores to 212. The stores included three Pathmark, three A&P, 10 Waldbaum's, four Food Emporium, and three Food Basics USA locations in New York and New Jersey. Two of the stores opened as Food Universe locations under corporate ...
Beginning in 2015, Best Market began purchasing former A&P locations in New York, including multiple Waldbaum's and Pathmark stores, [26] [27] [28] as well as one former Food Emporium in Tribeca. [29] These locations were all opened under its new Best Market banner, increasing the total number of the company's stores from 19 to 26.
After A&P purchased the Kohl's Food Stores chain, based in Wisconsin, [15] some of those stores were re-branded as Kohl's Sav-A-Center. These stores were later re-branded as Kohl's Food Market or Kohl's Food Emporium before that chain went under.