Supermarket Commercial Montage

[TimFrith24]

@gshowguy A&P already purchased Pathmark in 2007.

[nyconnjersey]

This is perhaps the best spot so far to find older Pathmark Commercials and other New York stores. Great job on the multiple commercials and they're clear and the sound quality is great too. If you have more please ad those too. Awesome!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!1

[PhilM662]

thanks for this post

[TimFrith24]

Are A&P, Waldbaum's and Pathmark owned by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company?

[gshowguy]

@TimFrith24 Not sure on Pathmark... I know A&P and Waldbaum's (as well as the Food Emporium) are.

[CWC880]

Any Commercials For D'agostino's

Move Closer To Me!!! LOL

[welcome2uniqueness]

I wish supermarkets starts making a lot of singing jingles. Something As good as A&P at 1:30, 2:00, and all of Pathmarks commercials after 7:29

[NewYorkRetroKing]

I know that's Alan Hamel in the Alpha-Beta ad. That same guy also appeared in the east-coast's ACME ads.

[EarlSnohomish]

I remember when the ACME commercials started playing in the NYC area. I didn't understand at the time why he got to have his name plastered on each commercial, while the "Shop Rite Lady" and "Mr. Pathmark" weren't afforded that luxury. Later on, however, I found out that he was a big celebrity in Canada (not to mention Suzanne Somers' husband).

[KillbotLuna]

Aw, no D'Agostino's commercials?! "So please Mr D'Agostino... move closer to meee!"

[hkfreak]

1:23 Rump roosth?

[videonut33]

On that ShopRite ad, that's the first time I've seen the lady who up to this day still announces what's on sale at the stores!!!

[EarlSnohomish]

The Shop Rite lady could be seen all throughout the '70s and the early '80s. She was just as ubiquitous on television as "Mr. Pathmark" (James Karen) was back then (much, much cuter, too :-).

[EarlSnohomish]

Never understood why they starting using her exclusively for voiceover work for Shop Rite commercials during the '80s. With her looks, they should have kept her in front of the camera much longer than they did, IMO. She also had a lovely singsong way of speaking, which wasn't as evident when she wasn't in front of the camera .

[EarlSnohomish]

BTW, does anybody happen to know what her name is?

[NewYorkRetroKing]

@EarlSnohomish videonut33 found out that she's Linda Watkins.

[EarlSnohomish]

@NewYorkRetroKing Thanks for finding out!

[fatmanfiftythousand]

@NewYorkRetroKing Are you sure about that?

[NewYorkRetroKing]

@fatmanfiftythousand I'm positive. Ask videonut33.

[TimFrith24]

Is that Brian Cummings, the voice of Vons commercials?

[wmbrown6]

The A&P ad appears to come from WABC-TV, as the voice heard announcing from 1:16-1:29 was staffer Tedd Lawrence.

[EarlSnohomish]

You have to write a voiceover book some day. I will be first in line to buy it. :-)

[jerseyfla]

Things I've noticed.

That has got to be the same woman who still does the voiceovers for the Shoprite commercials.

Hey that's Wayne Knight in that Waldbaum's Commercial

[EarlSnohomish]

Yes, that's still her.

[EarlSnohomish]

Yes, that's definitely Wayne Knight when he was a nobody.

[jerseyfla]

Alpha Beta must have been owned by the same company as ACME because ACME had the same "Tell A Friend" slogan around this time.

[hkfreak]

Both owned by American Stores?

[videonut33]

Yep.

[TimFrith24]

Did Alpha Beta close its doors forever?

[HulkieD]

James Karen is the Pathmark Guy - he was in movies such as Poltergeist and China Syndrome. Pathmark was one of the first stores to have units open TWENTY-four hours a day.

Helvetica is the font that Pathmark and most other chains were using.

Also, I swear that when A&P decided to redo the Pathmark look, they looked at all the old commercials and ads. The new "Sav-A-Center" store design has elements that are directly lifted from 80s Pathmark.

[TimFrith24]

When did James leave Pathmark commercials?

[EarlSnohomish]

I think he stopped doing them in the mid-'80s.

Weirdest thing for me was seeing "Mr. Pathmark" on "Eight is Enough" as a kid. I just assumed he was really Pathmark's spokesman and not just an actor. :-) With that said, I love him in all of the movies and television shows he has been in.

[fatmanfiftythousand]

@EarlSnohomish He was still doing them well into the '90s. He finally stopped I think in 1996.

[NewYorkRetroKing]

Let's not forget his most-recent appearance in "The Pursuit of Happyness" (2006). He played Marty Frohm.

[hkfreak]

Ahhh, eggs at 59 cents. Pathmark opened 24 hours? In the 80's? Even with Von's, 6-Midnight? And speaking of Pathmark, exactly who is the spokesperson? Wow, these crazy offers were awesome back then. Now... well...

What is that font they arrange those prices in? Nearly all of these 80's supermarket commercials have that font.

[TimFrith24]

I remembered James wearing glasses.