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((Short description|American discount supermarket))
((for|information about the formerly affiliated Food Basics in Canada|Food Basics))
((multiple issues|
((update|date=December 2015))
((more citations needed|date=January 2023))))
((Infobox company
| name             = Food Basics
| logo             = Foodbasicsusalogo.png
| logo_size        = 200px
| logo_caption     = Food Basics logo, circa 2012
| image            = 7.17.07NorthBergenFoodBasicsByLuigiNovi.jpg
| image_size       = 300px
| image_caption    = The Food Basics in [[North Bergen, New Jersey]]
| industry         = ((unbulleted list|[[Retail]]|[[Grocery]]))
| foundation       = ((unbulleted list|[[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] (((Start date|1995)) - Canadian concept)|[[Passaic, New Jersey|Passaic]], [[New Jersey]], United States (((Start date|2001)) - US concept)))
| location_city    = [[Montvale, New Jersey|Montvale]], [[New Jersey]]
| location_country = United States
| area_served      = [[Northeastern United States]]
| defunct      =  2015
| parent           = [[The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company]]
))

'''Food Basics''' was a no-frills discount supermarket chain owned and operated by [[The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company]] in the northeastern United States.

Food Basics carried major national brands, as well as A&P's portfolio of private labels,<ref>((Cite web |url=http://foodbasics.apsupermarket.com/our-brands |title=List of private brands used by Food Basics |access-date=2013-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523232641/http://foodbasics.apsupermarket.com/our-brands |archive-date=2013-05-23 |url-status=dead ))</ref> including ''America's Choice'', A&P's flagship private label, ''Food Basics'' and ''Home Basics'', ''Live Better'', and ''Green Way''.  The stores also included brands usually not carried by other A&P family stores.

Food Basics, like the rest of A&P’s operations, was liquidated and closed in 2015. The name and trademark was purchased by [[Allegiance Retail Services]], which also purchased the name and trademark for Food Basics’ former corporate sibling [[Pathmark]].

==History==

The [[Food Basics]] concept began in 1995 in [[Canada]], where it was launched by [[A&P Canada|A&P's Canadian subsidiary]]. As of 2009, the two chains were no longer connected as the Canadian Food Basics stores are now owned and operated by [[Metro Inc.]], which purchased [[A&P|A&P's]] Canadian stores.<ref>((cite news|title=Metro Inc. in deal to buy A&P Canada for $1.7B|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/metro-inc-in-deal-to-buy-a-p-canada-for-1-7b-1.551855|access-date=23 November 2014|work=CBC News|date=19 July 2005))</ref>

In 2001, A&P brought the Food Basics concept to the U.S., reopening its closed A&P supermarket in [[Passaic, New Jersey]], as its first Food Basics in the US.  A&P was pleased with the results and within several months of opening the Passaic store, A&P decided to expand the Food Basics banner into nearby Paterson, and renovated an A&P store there.

Some of the new Food Basics stores had been part of the A&P family for decades, including the Paterson store mentioned above,<ref>((Cite web |url=http://aptea.com/stores/465-getty-ave |title=Historic A&P/Food Basics store in Paterson |access-date=2013-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131223023526/http://aptea.com/stores/465-getty-ave |archive-date=2013-12-23 |url-status=dead ))</ref> with A&P's former Atlantic Regional headquarters nearby; in fact, before a separate building was constructed in the 1970s, A&P operated its store inside the headquarters building.

Other Food Basics stores, such as the [[Wallington, New Jersey]], Food Basics store, became part of A&P when the chain purchased [[Stop & Shop]]'s New York Metro division in 1982.

From its beginning, American Food Basics stores followed the same business plan as the Canadian stores: no in-store bakery or deli, some locations had no in-store butcher, and customers were not given free plastic bags. In the latter case, customers were encouraged to bring their own bags, with a small discount for each bag used, or use cardboard boxes provided for free. A sturdier plastic bag than a typical supermarket shopping bag was available to customers for a small fee. In the US, this was not a popular policy. Food Basics eventually stopped charging for shopping bags and started using cheap plastic bags used by its competitors and its fellow A&P banner stores.<ref>((Cite web |last=InsideHalton.com |first=Louie Rosella |date=2023-02-12 |title='SAYING GOODBYE': Big announcements from Metro, Food Basics, Fortinos and other grocery stores that will impact many shoppers |url=https://www.insidehalton.com/news/saying-goodbye-big-announcements-from-metro-food-basics-fortinos-and-other-grocery-stores-that-will/article_c4ce1ffe-f448-5a89-8154-5d1f68813ff4.html |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=Inside Halton |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web |last=Stryhun |first=Lana |title=Food basics eliminates plastic bags from all the stores |url=https://www.1069thex.com/2022/10/17/food-basics-eliminates-plastic-bags-from-all-the-stores/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=106.9 The X |language=en))</ref>

In its early years, all of Food Basics' stores in the United States had been small former A&Ps. In the mid-2000s, A&P expanded the Food Basics concept to larger stores, including a former A&P Food Market in [[North Bergen, New Jersey]], a former [[Super Fresh|Super Fresh Super Store]] in [[Northeast Philadelphia]], a [[Pathmark|Pathmark Super Center]] in the [[Eastside, Paterson|Eastside]] section of Paterson (the city's second Food Basics store), and an A&P Super Food Mart in [[Bridgeport, CT]].

In nearly all cases, the converted Food Basics stores were able to retain elements of the A&Ps they took over. The North Bergen and Paterson Eastside stores kept the pharmacy departments that their old stores had and were the only Food Basics to offer pharmacies. Five Food Basics kept the old stores' liquor licenses, with a sixth store selling only beer.((citation needed|date=November 2015))

In 2006, A&P made changes to the Food Basics model, opening a prototype store in [[Glassboro, New Jersey]]. The newer format emphasized low pricing (or "best pricing"), fresh produce, cut meats, and a bakery. New signage, colors, and wide aisles were among the changes in the Glassboro store.

In 2014, A&P operated 10 Food Basics stores: seven in New Jersey, two in [[Philadelphia]], and one in [[Brooklyn]].((citation needed|date=November 2015))

When A&P opted for liquidation in 2015, nine of the ten remaining Food Basics locations were sold to other operators. [[Key Food]] purchased several of these stores and rebranded the Paterson and Glen Rock, New Jersey stores under the [[Super Fresh]] banner, which was the name of A&P’s Philadelphia-area chain and which Key Food acquired in the bankruptcy auction for the company’s intellectual properties. The Passaic and Eastside Paterson stores were rebranded Gala Fresh, another Key Food brand concept, but neither store operates under this brand; the Eastside Paterson store rebranded as another Key Food marque, Food Universe, while the Passaic store was closed and subdivided; half of the store is now occupied by [[Dollar Tree]] and the other is home to that store’s sibling chain of variety stores, [[Family Dollar]].

==References==
((reflist))

((The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company))
((Supermarkets of the United States))

[[Category:The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company]]
[[Category:American companies established in 2001]]
[[Category:Retail companies established in 2001]]
[[Category:Retail companies disestablished in 2015]]
[[Category:Defunct supermarkets of the United States]]
[[Category:Supermarkets of the United States]]
[[Category:Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010]]
[[Category:Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015]]

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