The manager went on vacation and I watched the store for a week as a glorified part time clerk with a set of keys and a not to amused Dad who at the time was the Store Manager in Closter. When I was 18 I spent a Summer as and acting Assitant Manager inn this store. Instead they has a small store to close to their units in Closter and Peartl River to be viable. Finast thougth that the teservoir was going to be a housing development. Old Tappan was a giant Dud as a Finast, It was opened before the Safeway deal happened a Basement, like New Milfrod and New City. A&P closed it and reopened it as a linited assortment format.

Food town sold it to A&P along with the old Tappan Finast/Foodtown. The Finast where I worked as a part time kid and my Dad managed it for many a year was sold to panenhagen after Marty Vitale went to Jail. Also I forgot the Finast on Madison Avenue in Dumont it replaced the Safeway tow blocks up the tracks from the Finast and was sold to Grand Union and is today a Stop & Shop.

I was a Produce Manager with them for a time up in Ramsey. Pascack Road A And P To Become Foodtown, Report Says - Ridgewood-Glen Rock, NJ - At least 80 percent of the employees at the existing store will be offered employment, reports say. Myu Dad managed after Finast with Panzenhagen on Cedar Lane and in Montvale. I( understand that the entiore center has been ienlarged and gone upscale. It waqs in a shopping Center next to a movie.

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