Supermarket Commercial Montage

Here's a batch of supermarket commercials, dating between 1979 and 1985 and mostly consisting of New York and Los Angeles area chains. Lotsa good stuff here, and I'll refrain from my usual annoying patter so you can be surprised - a full writeup will be coming on madubs.com/blog

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Entertainment

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• supermarketcommercials1

[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]

@gshowguy A&P already purchased Pathmark in 2007.

[NewYorkRetroKing]

@fatmanfiftythousand I'm positive. Ask videonut33.

[fatmanfiftythousand]

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

[fatmanfiftythousand]

@NewYorkRetroKing Are you sure about that?

[EarlSnohomish]

@NewYorkRetroKing Thanks for finding out!

[NewYorkRetroKing]

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

[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

[gshowguy]

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

[PhilM662]

thanks for this post

[TimFrith24]

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