Associated Supermarkets

Associated Supermarkets is a retailers' cooperative of grocery stores based in New York City. Its stores are in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, and New Jersey.

In 2001, Associated Supermarkets and Gristede's stopped advertising in the Daily News after the paper ran a series of articles critical of the grocery stores' cleanliness.^[1] ^[2]

In 1995, officials of a meatpackers' union were accused of extorting bribes from RBG Management, a member company of Associated.^[3]

References

^ Williams, Monte (May 5, 2001). "Grocers Pull Ads After Articles on Cleanliness". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE7DA1138F936A35756C0A9679C8B63. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
^ "Daily News: All Lost In the Supermarket". Mediaweek.com. May 14, 2001. http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/google/article_brief/866076. Retrieved 2008-05-28.
^ Sullivan, Ronald (July 28, 1995). "Five Indicted in Extortion by Meatpackers' Union". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DA113CF93BA15754C0A963958260. Retrieved 2008-05-28.

Fickenscher, Lisa (May 24, 2008). "Supermarkets flee city's high costs. Stores flee city, focus expansion outside Big Apple; poor neighborhoods hit hardest". Crain's New York Business. http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080525/FREE/134888286/1008. Retrieved 2008-05-28. ""The cost of operating supermarkets in New York City was impossible," says Eligio Peña, who closed the last of his six Associated supermarkets here in 2000"

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