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Pathmark Stores Overview

Pathmark Stores is a grocery chain with 141 stores in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Many Pathmark stores are in neighborhoods where low-income customers live.

The chain's chief competitive advantages are its low prices and its Sav-A-Centers, which are units that range up to 64,000 square feet and offer perishables like produce and baked goods that have higher profit margins than packaged groceries. The chain is based in Montvale, New Jersey. In 2005, Pathmark generated revenues of close to four billion dollars, for a net revenue of $327 million.

The chain was founded in 1947 as ShopRite. In 1968, its parent corporation Supermarkets General changed the chain's name to Pathmark. By the 1980s, Pathmark Stores had become the nation's tenth largest supermarket chain. A leveraged buyout of the chain's parent corporation in order to escape a hostile takeover, however, plunged Pathmark into debt. Though it remained competitive in the New York area, Pathmark lost market share in other places. In 2000, the company filed for bankruptcy. In 2007, it was acquired by A&P.

Pathmark Stores Job Information

Employees in Pathmark stores continue to work under the Pathmark aegis, though corporate jobs now report to A&P. Pathmark employs approximately 10,000 people in various capacities such cashiers, grocery clerks, stock personnel, receivers, specialty food prep and store management. Employees are unionized, so salaries and benefits are commensurate with collective bargaining agreements.

What jobs pay the most at Pathmark Stores?

Director is the highest paying job at Pathmark Stores at $154,000 annually.