Dive Brief:
- Allegiance Retail Services has launched a new small-format grocery banner known as Pathmark Daily and will debut the name on May 1 at a store on Long Island, the retailer-owned cooperative announced on Tuesday.
- The first store to carry the Pathmark Daily banner currently operates under Allegiance’s Foodtown banner, a spokesperson for the co-op said.
- The new banner continues the evolution of the storied Pathmark name, which Allegiance Retail Services acquired following the bankruptcy of A&P, the banner’s former owner.
Dive Insight:
Allegiance did not provide details about when it might add additional Pathmark Daily stores, but indicated that it does plan to expand the banner. The Pathmark Daily concept will encompass small-format stores that offer “a curated assortment of high-quality fresh foods and essential grocery items to support a healthy lifestyle, all anchored in affordability and everyday value,” the co-op said in the announcement.
Stores under the banner will carry produce, meat, seafood and everyday goods, Allegiance said. They will also feature items under C&S Wholesale Grocers’ Best Yet private label, which other supermarkets under the Allegiance umbrella also carry.
“Pathmark Daily answers the need of consumers who want a fast, hassle-free shopping experience emphasizing strong value and quality,” Allegiance Retail Services President and Chief Operating Officer Joseph Fantozzi said in a statement.
The grocery store that is set to become the first Pathmark Daily location is located at 625 Merrick Ave. in East Meadow, New York. The store opened in 2023 in a building that includes a 15,000-square-foot main floor and was formerly home to a health club, according to Newsday.
Allegiance’s Pathmark Daily banner builds on the legacy of a brand that once spanned more than 140 supermarkets on the East Coast.
Allegiance purchased the Pathmark banner through the dissolution of the former A&P grocery chain, which filed for bankruptcy protection in 2015 and subsequently went out of business. The co-op brought the banner back to life in 2019, when the first store carrying the reborn Pathmark name opened at a site in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that had previously housed a Pathmark location. That 49,000-square-foot store, at 1525 Albany Ave., is currently the only location under the Pathmark banner.
A&P acquired Pathmark in 2007 in a nearly $680 million deal that brought it 141 locations in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to The New York Times.
In addition to Pathmark and Foodtown, Allegiance serves independent grocery stores under banners including Freshtown, D’Agostino, Gristedes, LaBella Marketplace, Brooklyn Harvest, Market Fresh, Big Deal Food Market, Green Way Markets and Shop n Bag.
