Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Grocery |
Founded | 1996Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | in
Founder | Patrick J. Burns |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of locations | 24 (2024) |
Area served | New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania |
Key people | Patrick J. Burns (president and CEO) |
Number of employees | 1,500 |
Parent | Wakefern Food Corporation |
Website | thefreshgrocer |
The Fresh Grocer is a supermarket chain based in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania that operates twenty-four stores in the greater Philadelphia and the greater Scranton areas of Pennsylvania, as well as northern New Jersey and Long Island, New York.[1] Founded in 1996 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an independent company, the company became a member of the Wakefern Food Corporation, a retailers' cooperative, in 2013.[2]