The Pathmark name will rise again on Long Island, 11 years after the grocer\u2019s former parent company filed for bankruptcy and all the stores closed.<\/p>\n
A Super Foodtown grocery store in East Meadow, at 625 Merrick Ave., is being converted to the only Pathmark Daily, a small-format grocery store, in the country, with a grand opening set for Friday, according to Allegiance Retail Services LLC, an Iselin,\u00a0New Jersey-based retail cooperative that provides advertising, technological\u00a0and other services to independently operated grocery stores.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Pathmark Daily concept is a grocery\u00a0store that is\u00a0smaller than traditional supermarkets and focuses on value and convenience, according to Allegiance.<\/p>\n
\u201cPathmark Daily answers the need of consumers who want a fast, hassle-free shopping experience emphasizing strong value and quality,\u201d Joseph Fantozzi, chief operating officer and president of Allegiance Retail Services, said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n
Allegiance, which bought Pathmark’s intellectual property, including the\u00a0logo, trademarks and\u00a0brand name, in 2016, also owns the Super Foodtown name\u00a0and other brands.<\/p>\n
Staten Island resident Mike Said opened Super Foodtown in East Meadow in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is leasing the two-floor, 28,000-square-foot space. The 15,000-square-foot main level is occupied by the store, while the basement is being used for storage.<\/p>\n
Pathmark Daily differs from Super Foodtown in that it will offer more sales and lower everyday prices, which means lower margins on groceries,\u00a0Said\u00a0told Newsday on Monday. But he expects to increase the volume of groceries he sells, particularly as more shoppers are seeking deals amid rising food costs.<\/p>\n
“Everybody is watching every dollar. So, I’m sure when they walk away from my store and they see the value and the quality, that word will spread and I will get more volume,” he said.<\/p>\n
He declined\u00a0to say by how much\u00a0his grocery store’s prices will decrease under the Pathmark Daily name, but he said they will be lower than\u00a0those of major competitors, such as ShopRite and Stop & Shop.<\/p>\n
Other changes\u00a0made in his\u00a0store included\u00a0the produce,\u00a0bakery and health\u00a0and beauty departments being expanded, as well as the addition of “Wall of Values” and “Everyday Low Price” sections that will have\u00a0featured items that are popular with existing customers, he said.<\/p>\n
Said also owns a\u00a0Super Foodtown that opened in Hempstead in 2015 but that store will not be converted to a Pathmark Daily because its size, 10,000 square feet, doesn’t meet Allegiance’s minimum size requirement of 15,000 square feet for a Pathmark Daily, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nationwide, the average supermarket\u00a0in 2024 was 42,453 square feet in size, according to the latest data from FMI, an Arlington, Virginia-based trade group that represents food retailers and producers.<\/p>\n
Pathmark Daily will respond to the needs of today’s shoppers “quickly and with\u00a0ease” for more-immediate needs,\u00a0said Donna Zambo, chief information and marketing officer for Allegiance.<\/p>\n
“And, so, a smaller-size format that is curated to …\u00a0what they need, when they want it for a quick access is really what makes sense,” she said, adding that the store also will have an ecommerce component, called Pathmark Daily on the Go, which will deliver purchased groceries to customers.<\/p>\n
She declined to say whether more Pathmark Daily stores are in the works.<\/p>\n
“Future store plans cannot be discussed at this time,” she said.<\/p>\n
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The Pathmark name is still well-known on Long Island despite the demise of the grocer more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
When\u00a0the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., or A&P, in Montvale, New Jersey filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2015 for the second time in five years, it owned 296 stores under several names, including 51 Long Island stores\u00a0\u2014\u00a019\u00a0Pathmarks and 32 Waldbaum’s supermarkets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 51 Long Island stores\u00a0were closed by November 2015 but some of the spaces were taken over by other supermarkets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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