I call this the Pathmark fight song. :) One thing I always noticed over the years is present here. The meat guy in this commercial (don’t know if he’s an actor or not) has a bushy mustache. It seemed like every Pathmark I ever went to had a meat manager with a stache like that.
+g- dave That's the good old Pathmark I knew: The Pathmark guy- James Karen he's a character actor he was in one of those famous horror movies (the name escapes me), He's still alive and active in the business. ( if they kept him as spokesman, Pathmark might still have been in business) I Remember those aquamarine colored shopping carts with the yellow handlles too and as "horrid" as the no-frills aisle was generics and off brands seem more popular than ever, especially in these uncertain times, Aldi's, Save A Lot's even Walmart has a Price First generic line that looks like it was inspired by the old No-Frills aisle
thewipsportsfan - It was Poltergeist which James Karen appeared in...he also had a role in the Little House On the Prairie finale movie as Nathan Lassiter, the greedy land baron who took over Walnut Grove.
PSK Foodtown purchased the name from a holding company that still owns other A&P names. Take a close look at Pathmark and their pricing now. You’ll noticed the difference
Well Pathmark can't be there anymore since they went out of business over a year ago. But at least Shop Rite is still there and there is a Shop Rite in the New Jersey town where I live.
In reply to my previous post since Pathmark is not "there" anymore, We can change the jingle to "Shop Rite is always there,Shop Rite is always there" or "Stop & Shop is always there,Stop & Shop is always there" or "Foodtown is always there,Foodtown is always there" or "Acme is always there,Acme is always there" or "Walmart is always there,Walmart is always there" and last but not least "Target is always there,Target is always there" Did I forget any supermarket chain based in the Northeastern United States?
GodfatherGaming1, Actually before the original Pathmark supermarkets first opened in 1968, those same original Pathmark supermarkets were at first Shop Rite supermarkets. Shop Rite ever since it first started in 1946 is a cooperative chain meaning that as of today in 2017 there are around 50 owners of Shop Rite supermarkets and there are about 300 Shop Rite supermarkets in a 6 state area of Maryland,Delaware,Pennsylvania,New Jersey,New York and Connecticut. One owner can own as little as one store while another owner can own as much as 33 stores. The owners of the Shop Rite supermarkets share the costs of distributing the food and non-food items from the warehouses located in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and also printing the circulars and radio & television advertising. The distribution arm of the Shop Rite supermarkets is known as the Wakefern Food Corporation and that was the original name of the cooperative when it first started in 1946 until 1951 when all of the owners decided to name all of their stores under the Shop Rite banner. Then in the late 1960s one Shop Rite/Wakefern group known as Supermarkets General Corporation decided for whatever reason to leave the Shop Rite/Wakefern co-op and start their own supermarket chain which became Pathmark. So in 1968 the 70 Shop Rite supermarkets that were owned by Supermarkets General Corporation dropped the Shop Rite name and were re-named Pathmark.
Scary to think that New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland has only one giant discount supermarket.instead of Pathmark, and Stop & Shop has always been a New England food chain.
No Shop Rite did not create Pathmark. As I wrote in my previous post about a year ago, It was Supermarkets General Corp. that was a member of the Shop Rite/Wakefern Co-op that for whatever reason left the Shop Rite/Wakefern Co-op in the late 1960s and started its own supermarket chain which became Pathmark in 1968
