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Food Basics was a no-frills discount supermarket chain owned and operated by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company in the northeastern United States.. Food Basics carried major national brands, as well as A&P's portfolio of private labels, [1] including America's Choice, A&P's flagship private label, Food Basics and Home Basics, Live Better, and Green Way.
Food Basics was created by A&P Canada to compete with the successful No Frills warehouse-style supermarket operated by Loblaw Companies.It became part of the Metro group [2] when A&P Canada was sold to Metro for $1.7 billion in 2005.
They consisted of Food-a-Rama, Super-Super, Cost-Saver Warehouse, and Basics Food Warehouse stores. When the company was sold in 1985 to Super Rite Foods of PA, it was the second-largest supermarket chain in Baltimore, behind Giant Food. [4] After the sale, stores were bought and sold eventually changing all the store banners to Metro Food Markets.
Full-page ad in the Nov. 11, 1958 Canton Repository, touting the opening of the Fishers Foods store at Cleveland Avenue NW and 44th Street. The store closed last year after 65 years; the building ...
According to the Stark County Auditor's Office, the 3.77-acre Tuscarawas Street W property remains owned by Fisher Food Marketing Inc. Whytsell said the site is within three business zoning districts.
In 1995, the company name was briefly changed to Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Emporium. [10] Margaret Isely died in 1997, and the Iselys' children took over the business the following year. [13] In the 2010s, Natural Grocers stopped selling what they call "confinement dairy products", which includes milk from cows that aren't allowed to graze. [14]
In June 1967, Vons completed the sale of Shopping Bag Food Stores to E.F. MacDonald. This company later bought 31 A&P supermarkets in Los Angeles, converting them to Shopping Bag. In 1972, MacDonald sold the supermarket chain to Fisher Foods, which rebranded the stores as Fazio's Shopping Bag. In 1978, all stores were sold to Albertsons. [1]
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