Food Fair

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Pantry Pride

A Pantry Pride supermarket in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Formerly	Food Fair
Industry	Grocery store
Founded	1920s in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Founders	Samuel N. Friedland and brother George I. Friedland
Defunct	2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Number of locations	275 (1957)

Food Fair, also known by its successor name Pantry Pride, was a large supermarket chain in the United States. It was founded by Samuel N. Friedland, and his brother George I. Friedland who opened the first store (as Reading Giant Quality Price Cutter) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in the late 1920s. As of 1957, Food Fair had 275 stores, and at its peak, the chain had more than 500 stores. Friedland's family retained control of the firm through 1978, when the chain entered bankruptcy.