Cumberland Farms
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Cumberland Farms is a chain of convenience stores based in Canton, Massachusetts and operating primarily in the eastern United States. Cumberland Farms operates roughly 650 stores in 11 states. The colors of Cumby's, as it is known, is blue and orange.
The first convenience store in New England, Cumberland Farms was founded in 1938 by Vasilios and Aphrodite Haseotes. The company is still owned by the Haseotes family, with Lily Haseotes Bentas serving as CEO.
Cumberland Farms has its own grocery distribution and bakery operations to supply its stores.
Cumberland Farms has been a two-thirds limited partner in the Gulf Oil company since 1985, and owns the rights to sell gasoline under the Gulf name in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, most of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the New England states.
The chain is a widely-seen part of the New England landscape, and has sponsored Boston Red Sox baseball games for a few years. It was mentioned in a Saturday Night Live "Boston Teens" sketch, where Pat "Sully" Sullivan is saying that his girlfriend Denise "Zazu" McDonough "is inside this Cumberland Farms, attempting to procure liquor with a fake ID, as an experiment for my civics class project on liquor laws in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." In reality, Cumberland Farms, like most convenience stores in Massachusetts, does not have a chain-wide liquor license, although individual stores have the right to apply for alcoholic beverage licenses from their city or town liquor licensing authority.
Cumberland Farms was plagued by scandal in the 1970s, when the chain found itself under investigation by Massachusetts officials for not filling milk containers to the capacity specified on labels.
