Discuss! This is my Super Fresh. It was originally an A&P until sometime in the late 80's. Then it was converted into a Super Fresh. There is still alot of rememberance of the A&P there. There are still the coffee grinders, still in use, at the end of the bagging area. All they did to remotel was paint Super Fresh all over the walls and get new flooring. Thats it!
lol looks just like my A&P witch is called A&P Super Fresh there owned by the same company i guess heh
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
lol looks just like my A&P witch is called A&P Super Fresh there owned by the same company i guess heh
Super Fresh bought out A&P in the early 90's. The Pennsylvania area A&Ps turned into Super Freshs. I know a whole lot of former A&Ps.
Here is a funny looking Super Fresh commerical from 1989.
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=superfreshaugust1989
I am suprised Super Fresh is still around in this area. Their stores are in odd locations and they are not competitive on price compared to stores like Giant and Shop Rite. They will close stores that have been open for a year, but leave stores from the 80's untouched.
Here is a new logo they are starting to use (so far this logo is only being used at one store)
(http://www.superfreshfood.com/images/store_photos/258.jpg)
QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
lol looks just like my A&P witch is called A&P Super Fresh there owned by the same company i guess heh
Super Fresh bought out A&P in the early 90's. The Pennsylvania area A&Ps turned into Super Freshs. I know a whole lot of former A&Ps.
Actually, A&P was/is always A&P. They just dropped the A&P name from the stores and rebranded them all as "Super Fresh".
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2831/truck22sc.th.jpg) (http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=truck22sc.jpg)
Pic of a SuperFresh truck with the Late 80's to mid 90's logo.
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8875/ffaxday9yp.th.jpg) (http://img189.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ffaxday9yp.jpg)
A closed Super Fresh store in Virginia
(http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/3563/301full7fm.th.jpg) (http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=301full7fm.jpg)
An odd looking store...many of their mid-80's stores have/had this look to them.
I'm part of the Super Fresh Club. I still have the same card since 1990. I still use it.
Some Super Fresh Somewhere.
Super Fresh opened a brand new store in a brand new shopping center in Lansdale Pa. in 1998. It looked simular to the one above. In 1999, hurricane Floyd came and flooded out the store. Super Fresh closed the store and it has been sitting like that since. Why didn't they just repair the damages.
Heres is a Super Fresh sign with there old slogan.
The one after that one.
And the one after that and the one after this one is "I Love This Store!"
Which is your favorite slogan for Super Fresh?
Storehistoryguy, since you are so familiar with Lansdale, I know there is a Redner's that opened up in that area not too long ago. Was this store new construction or did it open up in something else?
I haven't been in Lansdale in about 5 years...last time I was up there the Ames was open and a Clemens and Drug Emporium. I remember the empty Super Fresh and a Closed Acme (at least the building looked like an Acme)
QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
Storehistoryguy, since you are so familiar with Lansdale, I know there is a Redner's that opened up in that area not too long ago. Was this store new construction or did it open up in something else?
I haven't been in Lansdale in about 5 years...last time I was up there the Ames was open and a Clemens and Drug Emporium. I remember the empty Super Fresh and a Closed Acme (at least the building looked like an Acme)
The Redner's Warehouse Market knocked down the old Acme and built there store in it's place. The Ames is now a Big Lots. The Clemens is still there, but the Drug Emporium is empty. The Super Fresh was taken over by some Japanese supermarket.
This is the Super Fresh in Huntington Valley, Pa. that opened in the early 90's. I was there on the first day it opened. It has never been remodeled.
(http://www.superfreshfood.com/images/store_photos/246.jpg)
http://www.superfreshfood.com/index.asp
(http://www.superfreshfood.com/images/store_photos/375.jpg)
Superfresh in Doylestown, PA
Again, a very small store in one of the oddest layed out shopping centers I have ever seen (there are a lot of empty stores). Again, it competes with a Nearby Genuardi's, Acme and Redner's.
QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
This is the Super Fresh in Huntington Valley, Pa. that opened in the early 90's. I was there on the first day it opened. It has never been remodeled.
(http://www.superfreshfood.com/images/store_photos/246.jpg)
http://www.superfreshfood.com/index.asp
I just past this store today and the signs have been replaced with the new logo (and the Super Store thing also disappeared). So it looks like they plan on rolling this out across all their stores soon...
Superfresh trailer. I believe the slogan on the truck is the first one they used after they switched from A&P to the SuperFresh name.
QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
Discuss! This is my Super Fresh. It was originally an A&P until sometime in the late 80's. Then it was converted into a Super Fresh. There is still alot of rememberance of the A&P there. There are still the coffee grinders, still in use, at the end of the bagging area. All they did to remotel was paint Super Fresh all over the walls and get new flooring. Thats it!
I've seen that store before. Do you know if the (former) Gateway store in that shopping center was a Channel hardware beforehand? I seem to remember one being there but I was real young then...(and the concrete floor inside the old Gateway store always looked like it was older than the store itself)
QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
Discuss! This is my Super Fresh. It was originally an A&P until sometime in the late 80's. Then it was converted into a Super Fresh. There is still alot of rememberance of the A&P there. There are still the coffee grinders, still in use, at the end of the bagging area. All they did to remotel was paint Super Fresh all over the walls and get new flooring. Thats it!
I've seen that store before. Do you know if the (former) Gateway store in that shopping center was a Channel hardware beforehand? I seem to remember one being there but I was real young then...(and the concrete floor inside the old Gateway store always looked like it was older than the store itself)
Yes, but the Channel wasn't in the Gateway it was in the video store.
The former Super Fresh in Bensalem Pa. I remember in shut down in the mid-90's.
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/retail071303_0015.jpg)
http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html
the one naguatuck ct
That Naugatuck store is a part of A&P Super Foodmart. Super Fresh doesn't operate in CT.
From what I've seen, in recent years, Super Fresh has been using the same slogans as A&P, and their newer stores have the same look inside and out. I also used my A&P Bonus Savings card at one of their "scan your own items" lines and the machine accepted it. I really have to wonder why they don't just call the stores A&P, as that has more name recognition.
They were called A&P until the mid-80's, but there was some Union trouble which forced them to switch to the Super Fresh banner. They aren't operated any different than any of other A&P's stores.
A&P let Super Fresh suffer throughout the 90's, building new stores, but most were unsuccessful and closed within a few years. Now, they seem to be rebuilding the whole chain with much more modern stores, a new logo, and lower prices.
SuperFresh ditched the "Bonus Savings" card and introduced a new "ClubFresh" card, although I suspect the old ones still work. I have an old card from around 1992..i wonder if it's still good.
So the name change was for legal reasons? Interesting.
And yeah, as I said before, my A&P Bonus Savings card works (it's a more recent one), so I'm guessing it was pretty much just a name change.
QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
The former Super Fresh in Bensalem Pa. I remember in shut down in the mid-90's.
(http://www.tomasher.net/retail/retail071303_0015.jpg)
http://www.tomasher.net/deadretail.html
This locations opened in the 1970's as a A&P. It closed when the Franklin Mills Super Fresh Super Store opened.
A former Super Fresh Supermarket closed down in 1999.
A former Super Fresh now a Shop N Bag
Located in Philadelphia, PA on Frankford Ave. &
Morrell Ave.
QuoteOriginally posted by wiseguy93
A former Super Fresh now a Shop N Bag
Located in Philadelphia, PA on Frankford Ave. &
Morrell Ave.
This former Super Fresh, later Shop N' Bag, has long since been demolished.
Today is the last day the Super Fresh Super Store on Cottman Avenue. After it closes at the end of today, it will reopen tomorrow (9/7/2008) as Pathmark Sav-A-Center
So that's why there was no ad on their web site for that store!! Hope the competion is ready, because the Sav-a-Center sales have been very strong in recent re-conversions.
I went to Pathmark's web site to look up this stores ad (Cottman Ave) and did not see it listed there. do you have a copy of this ad??
Neither the Pathmark and Superfresh websites have the Grand opening ads for the Pathmark Sav-a-Center at 2101-41 Cottman Avenue. But, if you look under "News And Events" on the Pathmark site, for Produce Pete's store appearance, you will see the 2101-49 Cottman Avenue location scheduled for September 12.
QuoteOriginally posted by wiseguy93
A former Super Fresh Supermarket closed down in 1999.
Hey, I think I saw the same one, and got pictures too!
this is the super fresh in Hammonton, NJ. built in 1995.
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
this is the super fresh in Hammonton, NJ. built in 1995.
A&P has used, in what I would call 90's Colonial style, as compared to the 90's Steel style, for many of their current Superfresh and A&P Fresh that opened in the 1990's.
The Pathmark Sav-A-Center on the 2100 block of Cottman Avenue (former Superfresh) has the 90's Steel design.
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
this is the super fresh in Hammonton, NJ. built in 1995.
and here is the old former super fresh in Hammonton, NJ. Built sometime in the early 1980's and closed in 1995 when they built the new super fresh super store I have pictured above. it then became a tractor supply company (then called farm country) store, then in 2005 it became a goodwill store and a canal's discount liquor mart.
What Super Fresh store is the next one to be converted to the Pathmark Save a Center format??
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
this is the super fresh in Hammonton, NJ. built in 1995.
and here is the old former super fresh in Hammonton, NJ. Built sometime in the early 1980's and closed in 1995 when they built the new super fresh super store I have pictured above. it then became a tractor supply company (then called farm country) store, then in 2005 it became a goodwill store and a canal's discount liquor mart.
One more thing: This is the third out of four stores A&P has had in hammonton. I learned this from some guy on flickr. First they were in a small building downtown on main street. then they moved into a classic A&P colonial building (now a family dollar and a hometown video (area chain of video stores with 4 locations.) then, they moved into the building that is now canals and goodwill as a super fresh, the in 1995 they built and moved into a new super fresh super store next to a new walmart.
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
this is the super fresh in Hammonton, NJ. built in 1995.
It seems that this store exterior is about identical to the Berlin CT A&P Super Foodmart, which opened in 1996, except the signage is different.
QuoteOriginally posted by Joeg
What Super Fresh store is the next one to be converted to the Pathmark Save a Center format??
The next Super Fresh Super Store that is scheduled to become a Pathmark Sav-A-Center is the Franklin Mills Super Fresh. It will be the day after the Pathmark Super Center on Knights & Dunks Ferry Road, in Bensalem, closes permanently.
In the South, many (newer!) SuperFresh stores were sold to Kroger.
The Superfresh on Critterden Street in Philadelphia was the lasted to become a Pathmark Sav-A-Center, as of this past Friday, 10/3/2008. This location originally opened as a A&P Supermarket in the 1970's (It was not a Centennial/colonial design)
QuoteOriginally posted by MikeRa
The Superfresh on Critterden Street in Philadelphia was the lasted to become a Pathmark Sav-A-Center, as of this past Friday, 10/3/2008. This location originally opened as a A&P Supermarket in the 1970's (It was not a Centennial/colonial design)
If it opened in the 70's, it would not have been a Centennial store. Those stores were built from 1959 to 1970.
There is a former SuperFresh near me, vacant since early 2002, which is rumored to become a T.J. Maxx. It is a block away from a former Acme with the peaked roof which closed in 2005 and is now Save-a-Lot.
The SuperFresh in Salisbury, MD, opened in 1997 and closed in 2001. It became Giant which closed in October 2006.
Here's an old superfresh basket that I found at the hammonton, nj store.
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
Here's an old superfresh basket that I found at the hammonton, nj store.
reminds me of Eckerd
QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
This is the Super Fresh in Huntington Valley, Pa. that opened in the early 90's. I was there on the first day it opened. It has never been remodeled.
(http://www.superfreshfood.com/images/store_photos/246.jpg)
http://www.superfreshfood.com/index.asp
This superfresh location is now a Pathmark Sav-a-Center store.
Superfresh is closing down 3 stores in PA:
-Lansdale
-Doylestown
-Pottstown
(there is also one closing in Maryland).
The lansdale store was previously a family-owned Clemens Market, but they sold out in 2006 to both Giant and A&P. It was a really old store and SuperFresh didn't really remodel it. There was once an Ames next to this store as well, but it became an ACE and Big Lots sometime after 2004.
The Doylestown store doesn't surprise me..it's in a dead, and very hidden shopping center. It was recently remodeled, but there are too many other, and cheaper, markets in the area (mainly Wegmans). Doylestown has a large Acme, Genuardi's, and on the lower end, Redner's.
The Pottstown store looks really old and I'm guessing it hasn't been remodeled recently. It's also kind of far from A&P's other operations.
(http://images.townnews.com/thereporteronline.com/content/articles/2009/02/03/business/doc498770b150ca1344337303.jpg)
Lansdale
(http://images.townnews.com/pottsmerc.com/content/articles/2009/02/04/business/doc49899a870de6a753167037.jpg)
Pottstown..opened in 1987.
I really like the new Super Fresh logo. Super Fresh may not be the cheapest supermarket around, but they have an awesome selection that puts Wal-Mart and Shop Rite to shame!
QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75
I really like the new Super Fresh logo. Super Fresh may not be the cheapest supermarket around, but they have an awesome selection that puts Wal-Mart and Shop Rite to shame!
any super market puts shop rite to shame lol
new logos kinda cool looks kinda European
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
Check out their new store locator with pictures of each store, though some are stock photos.
http://www.superfreshfood.com/pages_aboutUs_SL.asp
Most of those photos dates back to the early 2000's.
QuoteOriginally posted by MikeRa
Today is the last day the Super Fresh Super Store on Cottman Avenue. After it closes at the end of today, it will reopen tomorrow (9/7/2008) as Pathmark Sav-A-Center
Didn't they take time to gut it?
QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
QuoteOriginally posted by MikeRa
Today is the last day the Super Fresh Super Store on Cottman Avenue. After it closes at the end of today, it will reopen tomorrow (9/7/2008) as Pathmark Sav-A-Center
Didn't they take time to gut it?
No, they kept the store, as well as the Franklin Mills Super Fresh Super Store, open while converting it from Superfresh to Pathmark Sav-A-Center.
So, at one point, you had Pathmark design on the walls with Superfresh/Waldbaum's/A&P Fresh design on the walls as well.
The newspaper ads has all the Pathmark stores now as "Pathmark Sav-a-Center"
I noticed that the U-Scan registers just say SAV-A-CENTER on the, also the receipts just say SAV-A-CENTER.
Speaking of which, it annoys me when people dont pronounce it "SAVE A CENTER" instead they think its like SAAV A CENTER lol
the u-scan says save-a-center as well as the people in the store lol.
Quote from: MBZ321 on February 05, 2009, 08:26:11 PM
Superfresh is closing down 3 stores in PA:
The Pottstown store looks really old and I'm guessing it hasn't been remodeled recently. It's also kind of far from A&P's other operations.
(http://images.townnews.com/pottsmerc.com/content/articles/2009/02/04/business/doc49899a870de6a753167037.jpg)
Pottstown..opened in 1987.
Water under the bridge as that store is now LONG gone, but that one was a Pathmark originally, AFAIK.
I was in Pathmark today, and I saw that a lot of the Smart Price brand stuff was now Food Basics and that America's Choice had their own gum - "Superfresh Gum".
LOL.
On July 9, Pathmark unveiled a new store in Port Jefferson Station, NY. The story can be found at http://www.aptea.com/pressRoom_article.asp?id=195 (http://www.aptea.com/pressRoom_article.asp?id=195)
Quote from: MikeRa on July 25, 2010, 12:51:02 AM
On July 9, Pathmark unveiled a new store in Port Jefferson Station, NY. The story can be found at http://www.aptea.com/pressRoom_article.asp?id=195 (http://www.aptea.com/pressRoom_article.asp?id=195)
Guess they felt threatened by the new Uncle Giuseppe's.
Quote from: DerangedHermit on July 22, 2010, 01:12:59 PM
I was in Pathmark today, and I saw that a lot of the Smart Price brand stuff was now Food Basics and that America's Choice had their own gum - "Superfresh Gum".
LOL.
Pathmark currently has food Basics and Home Basics brands, and really soon Food Basics will sell those 2 brands as well
The superfresh at 2nd Street and Girard Avenue, in Philadelphia, PA, opened this past Wednesday/thursday, August 24 & 25th. This location was originally gonna open as a Pathmark