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The original company, now defunct, was founded in Ellenville, New York, in 1949 [1] by 23 year-old former Merchant Marine radio operator and DuMont TV antenna installer Joe Resnick [2] with the backing of his brothers Harry and Louis Resnick. Its principal innovation was a prefabricated antenna which arrived with elements folded, not ...
California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
Waldbaum's operated full-service traditional supermarkets with varying footprints and store models and its popular marquee in certain aisles along with good food and reliable service. At its peak in the 1980s, it was the 12th largest supermarket chain in the United States and had 140 stores throughout the New York metropolitan area. [3]
Super Duper was a chain of supermarkets once prevalent in north-eastern Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont and Ohio. With the 1997 demise of its owner, Burt Prentice Flickinger Jr., who had been instrumental in the success and growth of "S.M. Flickinger Co.", the company started a slow demise, and the last store disappeared in March 2010 ...
Best Market was a family-owned, regional supermarket chain with 30 stores in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The company was headquartered in Bethpage, New York, and had been owned by the Raitses family since the company's first store opened in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, in 1994. [1] [2]
The Penn Traffic Company was a food service company founded in 1854 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.. The company eventually evolved into a general merchandise department store. By the early 1960s, it also returned to the food business through the acquisition of Super Value Corporation, which operated the 10-store Riverside supermarket chai
The first Quality Markets store opened in Jamestown, New York in 1913, and spread into Pennsylvania by the 1930s. They became a subsidiary of Penn Traffic in 1979. They opened their first stores in Buffalo, New York in 1993. [1] According to their website, they were the first chain store in Western New York to use barcode scanners at the checkout.
Nicholas D'Agostino Sr. (June 8, 1910 – June 23, 1996) was a supermarket magnate in New York City.He was an Italian-American immigrant and the co-founder of D'Agostino Supermarkets, one of New York's historically original and leading grocery chains.