Pathmark?!

[store215]

Post your thoughts on this chain.

All of their stores i have been to are bright, large, and clean, but they all feel "old" and 80's decor. Their prices are pretty poor on things that are not on sale.

The store that I and the rest of my family shop at is huge and has a larger parking lot than it needs. The store is always dead as many old customers now shop at the Giant and ShopRite right down the street. There is a huge spot where the Fleet bank was removed and it looks horrible. I don't expect this location for be open for much longer.

[Caldor1999]

there r a lot of then located near meive seen the befor but i never shoped in one before

[amesman]

I saw one in Yonkers from the train the other day when I went down to New York City.

[Anonymous]

Well, they make alot of money, but its not a store you would want to purchase perishables at.  They are very strong in non perishable foods, and dairy and frozen... but their deli, bakery, seafood, and meat departments are absolutely terrible.  They seem to be hurting now that Stop & Shop is expanding overnight on LI, people are really starting to take to Stop & Shop now.  Pathmark's future is looking bleak.  The only parts they definately will survive is the NY metro areas.  They have excellent presence there.  Their latest store decor looks much more modern than the red, orange, tan and white decor in most stores.  I've been in their Bethpage store a few times, just opened early mid last year, and it is far more modern than the other Pathmarks.  If they don't do something sonner or later about their perishable depts. ESPECIALLY the ones near King Kullen stores and Stop & Shop, they will continue to suffer.  Even their latest sales figures are down...

[store215]

It looks like C&S Wholesale, (who owns whatever is left of the Grand Union Chain) wants to buy Pathmark

[store215]

Pathmark commercial from 1994:

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=PMjan1994

[store215]

Originally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
how old is Pathmark's logo?

I believe it's from the late 60's when they started. I haven't come across any different logos besides the one they have been using.

[storehistoryguy]

Pathmark Sign.

[BillyGr]

Just as a side note - the first Pathmarks were originally
Shop-Rite stores - the owners (as part of the co-op that runs ShopRite) decided to leave the co-op and therefore couldn't use the ShopRite name any longer - this is when PathMark was born.

[storehistoryguy]

Originally posted by BillyGr
Just as a side note - the first Pathmarks were originally
Shop-Rite stores - the owners (as part of the co-op that runs ShopRite) decided to leave the co-op and therefore couldn't use the ShopRite name any longer - this is when PathMark was born.

So they were originally Shop Rites? Cool! Never knew that. Are there some Pathmark locations that used to be Shop Rites? Theres none of those in my area.

[store215]

Pathmark was also connected to the Rickel Hardware Store chain (in many cases, like Warminster, PA for example, a Pathmark and Rickel would be in the same shopping center or at least close by. I don't know if they were  still owned by Pathmark (aka Supermarkets General) in the end or not. They all closed in 1998 and most of the building leases went to Staples.

Pathmark/Supermarkets General also operated F&M Large-Format Pharmacies, which were sold somewhere along the line to Drug Emporium.

I haven't been able to find Pics of any of the chains above.

[storehistoryguy]

Originally posted by MBZ321
Pathmark was also connected to the Rickel Hardware Store chain (in many cases, like Warminster, PA for example, a Pathmark and Rickel would be in the same shopping center or at least close by. I don't know if they were  still owned by Pathmark (aka Supermarkets General) in the end or not. They all closed in 1998 and most of the building leases went to Staples.

Pathmark/Supermarkets General also operated F&M Large-Format Pharmacies, which were sold somewhere along the line to Drug Emporium.

I haven't been able to find Pics of any of the chains above.

The Rickels in Warminster (now Staples) was next door to the Pathmark, but the Pathmark wasn't part of the shopping center Rickels was in and still isn't. I think they should just make it part of it by putting there name on the shopping center sign.

[BillyGr]

Originally posted by storehistoryguy
So they were originally Shop Rites? Cool! Never knew that. Are there some Pathmark locations that used to be Shop Rites? Theres none of those in my area.

I don't know - niether website indicates which stores (although the SR site says that they lost about 1/2 their wholesale volume when pathmark left) - here's the link to their history page :

http://www.shoprite.com/main/allabout_yesterday.htm

Also - to add to the comment about Rickel - the East Brunswick Pathmark was next to one of these - it's now a (smaller looking) Home Depot but was first something else - I think it was just Home Depot under another name (kind of like WalMart with Neighborhood Markets)

[store215]

Originally posted by BillyGr


Also - to add to the comment about Rickel - the East Brunswick Pathmark was next to one of these - it's now a (smaller looking) Home Depot but was first something else - I think it was just Home Depot under another name (kind of like WalMart with Neighborhood Markets)

Does the name "Channel Hardware" sound familiar? Rickel "merged" with them a few years before Rickel closed.

[storehistoryguy]

Originally posted by MBZ321

Originally posted by BillyGr


Also - to add to the comment about Rickel - the East Brunswick Pathmark was next to one of these - it's now a (smaller looking) Home Depot but was first something else - I think it was just Home Depot under another name (kind of like WalMart with Neighborhood Markets)

Does the name "Channel Hardware" sound familiar? Rickel "merged" with them a few years before Rickel closed.

Channel is gone too.

[storehistoryguy]

Heres a nice looking Pathmark with a police car out front. (Probebly stopped for doughnuts and coffee! :insane: )

[storehistoryguy]

Pathmark toy truck.

[store215]

Pathmark carts.

[d_fife]

this parthmark is in staten island ny on platnum ave

[ameskmart1]

Pathmark Supercenter

[Caldor1999]

pathmark dosent seem like such a clean looking super markte all teh ones located hear are dirty and out dated

[Amesfan]

Pathmark's changed it's stores around in New Jersey a little.  Some of them have new graphic interiors with red and pink stuff.  Lots in Monmouth County have them, the Eatontown store, the Hazlet store, the Middletown store, and I think the Wall store, Howell, and I think a couple others around New Jersey have those interiors with the new style.  Pathmark's even changed it's logo in it's advertising and circulars.

[store215]

Pictures inside a recently-closed Pathmark. Most of their stores look similar to this

http://www.grafeauction.com/auctions/images.cfm?AuctionID=1536&State=PA

[storehistoryguy]

A Pathmark at night.


http://www.sitephotometrics.com/pathmark.htm

[storehistoryguy]

Inside an older Pathmark.


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[storehistoryguy]

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[storehistoryguy]

Thank You for Shopping at Pathmark!


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[storehistoryguy]

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[storehistoryguy]

Frozen Foods.

http://www.blancind.com/popups/store1.htm

[storehistoryguy]

This one looks nice with the bridge and the sunset in the background.

www.zettler.at/ny/ 002bridges/source/1.html