The Market Report

Cousins Fresh Market Owner: Rushdi Mohammad Opened:  2013 Cooperative:  none Location:  5429 W Girard Ave, Carroll Park, Philadelphia, PA Photographed:  December 2021 Our second Philadelphia tour, about half a mile south of yesterday's ShopRite , bears a lot of similarities to the American Family Market we saw in Narberth. It was also built in the early 1950s (or so) as an A&P, although this one was retrofitted with a very simple Centennial facade in the early 1960s. I doubt this store made it to the SuperFresh (post-1983) era, when all Philadelphia-area A&P stores were converted to SuperFresh, and at some point it became an American Family Market also. The Girard American Family Market eventually gave way to the KS Thriftway , and it's unclear whether that store was actually affiliated with the Thriftway cooperative given that they didn't use the logo on the sign. That store closed around 2012, being converted to a Cousins Fresh Market in 2013. Cousins Fres...

American Family Market Owner: Paul Bovo Opened:  1964 Cooperative:  none Location:  230 Haverford Ave, Narberth, PA Photographed:  December 2021 Welcome to the small, quaint downtown of Narberth, PA! Retail fans know of this town from its ACME , but we're downtown for the 3700 square foot American Family Market. Originally an A&P, the American Family Market was taken over by its current owners in 1964. And AFM appears to have once been a small chain or cooperative of grocery stores in the Philadelphia area, which has long since dissolved. But other locations were at 911 N Franklin St in Philadelphia, since demolished, and 5429 Girard Ave , another obvious former A&P. There was at least one more but I haven't been able to find where it was exactly (I just recall seeing it once). Narberth is the only remaining American Family Market, which celebrated its 50th anniversary back in 2014. While it has been ranked as the top grocer in the area in the past, noted i...