Top 10 Forgotten Grocery Stores (Part 2)

As we all know… or in case you didn't know…a grocery store is a store that primarily sells food products that may be fresh or packaged. Larger format stores are referred to as supermarkets and hypermarkets usually stock significant amounts of non-food products, such as clothing and household items.

Today’s video, we’ve decided to continue our “Top 10” list to the fascinating world of Forgotten Grocery Store Chains Part 2.

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0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Bohack’s
2:56 - Weingarten’s
3:48 - Chatham
4:45 - SaveRite
5:54 - American Fare
8:20 - Big Bear
10:01 - Marsh Supermarkets
13:08 - Farmer Jack
15:00 - Pathmark
17:55 - Grand Union
21:45 - Outro

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Script & Video Production Rasheed Stevens (Sheednomics)

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Handy Bros Picture: TBA
Safeway Historical Photos: TBA
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[Bishopspipes]

Worked at Grand Union on Long Island 1995-2000; terrible job but some of the best people I’ve ever met

[trainroomgary]

Frame: 13:09 - I worked at Farmer Jack for 5 years while in High School and College. Became a High School Shop Teacher for 36 years. Store Number 144 at Telegraph & Schoolcraft, Redford, Michigan. This was a fun and great job to make money. Well done video. • Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

[markwest]

Waldbaums and King Kullen, both Long Island chains

[michaelrocker]

Oh yeah I sure remember Bohacks, Packers and Daitch Shopwell and my mom used to collecting the King Korn stamps. A&P had Plaid Stamps. The W in Weingartens looks like the W from Walgreens and the Washington Nationals baseball team. Grand Union is also gone. I was working at C&S when they acquired GU. C&S was also the main distributor for Tops. The PathMark store where i used to live in Brooklyn NY is now a Stop & Shop.. Thanks for sending me this link.

[brianwilson]

I remember Marsh from Crawfordsville Road in Speedway IN.

[laf]

They mentioned my hometown Keansburg, New Jersey; Thank you Grand Union supermarket.

[mattgilly]

Great recap. I worked with Marsh Supermarkets as an employee and vendor/manufacturer for over 29 years. It was a sad day when they finally gave up and let go of everything. It was time as many of the stores were struggling to survive.

[TheUnplanted]

I truly miss Big Bear im glad that you guys talked about it. We always shopped there when I was a kid

[barbarathomas]

I remember Margaret Ann in Miami and then Kwik Chek took that over. After Kwik Chek it turned into Winn Dixie.

[KAlovesherkitties]

My new favorite channel! To this day I still miss Farmer Jack. A bit before the store closed, they’d show these commercials with a Farmer Jack truck and an A&P truck driving side by side. The gist was that hey everything will be okay! Next thing you knew, they were closed. It was a bummer given that it was I believe the only major grocery store chain in Detroit, but we’ll still have the memories of it always being Bonus Savings time.

[geriking]

Pathmark. My favorite store 30+ years ago when I lived in New York. I was really sad when they closed.

[marklanham]

I knew that Kmart’s brand was American Fare, but I didn’t realize it was a store!

[mstknislesfan]

I worked at Pathmark in Bay Shore, NY for 25 years. It was a good at first then the first chapter 11 happened and that's when things started changing right before my very eyes. When it was bought by A&P it really began the death knell of Pathmark and Waldbaums. I still remember working the very last day it was opened.
Last I saw it was turned into Hobby Lobby.

[davidsquires]

I remember, when Chatham Complete Food Centers converted some of the Chatham Stores to Pak n Sav Warehouse Stores. Then, I also remember when Chatham experimented with a store named Chatham Plus to compete with Meijer Superstores. After, when Chatham Plus closed permanently. The, former Chatham Plus is a Lowe's Home Improvement Store and is still open to this very day. The location of the old Chatham Plus/Lowe's Home Improvement Store is located on Van Dyke between Chicago Road and Old 13 Mile Road in Warren, Michigan. And, I also have my old Farmer Jack Bonus Savings Card to this very day.

[stanford-nfjk]

I wonder what happened to Suttle’s Markets, Hughes’ Markets, and Victory Foods. I didn’t see them in either video but I imagine that there have been so many grocery retailers come and go that some were too small to even mention.

[PostMortar]

Great video! 👍 Love the histories of old grocery chains.

[Custer_X]

Can you do a top ten forgotten restaurants? There's some I can remember but are no longer around like Chi-Chi's.

[ghettoghost]

Kessel was a big thing in Mid-Michigan that got bought out by Save-A-Lot. They got Save-A-Lot everywhere.

[davidross]

Yes you did say Safeway and Albertson's but not top forgotten stores plus Gemco which was a Grocery/regular store with a $1.00 membership fee per year and Von's

[SweptAway]

As someone who grew up in New Jersey, two defunct grocery chains come to mind - Finast and Foodtown.