The first of Food Fair's Pantry Pride stores opened on August 26, 1964. From the chain's launch, its logo would feature the store's name against a Colonial-era signboard topped with a pediment. Pantry Pride would gain Penn Fruit as a sister store in September 1976, and in the Philadelphia area the chains would jointly advertise.
The divide in this logo was most likely intended to match Penn Fruit's. Parent company Food Fair, Inc. filed for bankruptcy in 1978, and re-emerged in 1981 as Pantry Pride, Inc. A large portion of Pantry Pride's stores, as well as all J.M. Fields and Penn Fruit locations, were liquidated by February 1979.
1981-1992[]
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Bookman Swash
Launched:
February 1981
Elongated version
Print version
In 1985, Pantry Pride, Inc. was acquired by Ronald Perelman's MacAndrews & Forbes. All remaining stores, located in Florida, would be sold to John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Group the same year.
1991-1992[]
Pantry Pride opened its last location, a prototype market called Pantry Pride Food Emporium, on February 3, 1991. The chain would be overtaken by Woolley's Fine Foods in November 1991, with all stores converted by 1992.
