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Posted by Steve Landry on 10/7/2005, 7:51 am, in reply to "Penn Fruit Philadelphia retro store located with PHOTOS" I know that you know that Pantry Pride bought most of the Penn Fruits around late 60' to early 70's? Penn Fruit and other PA. and surrounding area grocery retailers sufferred badly after a very bitter labor strike. Penn Fruit never recuperated which allowed Food Fair (Pantry Pride) and other retailers to gobble up their stores for cheap. Food Fair got most of them. Later when Food Fair/Pantry Pride collapsed, many of the managers and execs purchased several stores and created the Thriftway supermarkets. I am sure that this store was one of them. I doubt if they are still the owners thus the slight change in name to Holiday Thriftway. As far as Penn Fruit's pre Food Fair history..........?? I know that they were very unique and ahead of their time in design, size of stores, merchandise mix, etc. Very much like the Fredrick's chain in Florida that Food Fair also purchased.
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