Food Emporium (NYC grocery store) jingle and radio commercial - 1997 

And even into the 00s they kept airing this jingle, I very much remember hearing this jingle quite a few times in my teenage years of the 00s. :D

@@DanknDerpyGamer Did they? I left in '99, that's too funny.

This always came on 1010 WINS 📻 🎙 station. This is NYC Nostalgia waking up getting ready for school

Absolutely!!

Harrison, NY. You nailed it!

I annoy my kids with this song all the time!

Great memory! When I was a kid in the late '80s and early '90s, after we moved out of the city we listened to WPAT, WNEW (AM) or WFAN in my dad's 1984 Honda Civic.

@@tapesfromtheradio Hell yeah! Same to you as well. I've been in jamaica queens since i was born and moved to LI when i was 10. I remember hearing this jingle from my toddler years towards the end of 2001 throughout the main streets of queens. Now, strolling from the streets of Queens bvld to Hillside ave to Broadway has gotten me nostalgic imagining all the rnb, pop and disco, Z100 and 1010 wins my dad played back in those days. The food emporium lyric has echoed in my head for so long, this recording's got me singing it everyday reminding me of innocent times.

Now that you mention it what are they saying there? I could be Fought or Sought.

Thought

My whole childhood was spent not knowing any lyrics except for the misheard "Food Implorium"

I always thought it was "my store's GOT to give me / the very best of service". Drove me crazy for what seemed like years! I posted the full lyrics in my own comment on this page, btw.

The food is terrible

Agreed, it was more a marketing gimmick than anything else. Once FreshDirect arrived in the early 2000s we switched to ordering groceries online. That was the best alternative to the crappy Manhattan grocery stores at the time. Now at least there are Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Aldi and Costco in the city to compete with the old school stores.

@@tapesfromtheradio In Queens, I was mainly familiar with Key Food and Waldbaums as a kid. Imagine my dismay when I first walked into a Food Emporium and saw the same dirty tile floors and box packaging strewn haphazardly along the aisles. 😑 It makes sense nowadays, of course, since Key Food has owned Food Emporium for a bit less than a decade. Morton Williams is probably the cleanest and neatest of the traditional Manhattan supermarkets, but they're fairly expensive. IMO, all of them are sort of like convenience stores close by to the nearby apartments, and are often priced as such. I mean, where else do you get charged for lettuce by the lb and not by the head? I remember my brother used to get Fresh Direct quite a bit around 2010 because they were competitive on price in Manhattan. I don't think he orders from there much anymore, though they're clearly still doing great business in the city. Trader Joe's is a great place for single workers and families in need of a quick cheap frozen dinner and other foods. I like it a lot. Whole Foods has become more price-accessible ever since Amazon bought them. And Costco is awesome for cheap bulk items if you have the apartment space, though you have to deal with only one city location and a bunch of inconvenient outerboro locations. I'm interested in checking out the Wegmans by the Navy Yard one day.

"You give us XX (?) minutes, and we will give you the world." Not like those folks over at Newsradio 88, WCBS, who just give you lots of traffic and weather together on the 8's.

theyre STILL AROUND FEW IN NY NJ NOT MANY THOUGH

Great story! I love Canada - was just in Vancouver a little over a year ago for business and recorded some radio stations there. I have always wanted to visit Nova Scotia. Hopefully in 2021 when the borders reopen.

@@tapesfromtheradio Vancouver is where I live now. It's a far-Leftist hell hole compared to beautiful Nova Scotia. Go see it before the Communists take away all of our travel rights (assuming we ever get back what's left of them).