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Key Food Stores Co-op, Inc. is a cooperative of independently owned supermarkets, founded in Brooklyn, New York, on April 20, 1937. Its stores are located in Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida. The headquarters for the Key Food cooperative is in Matawan and New Jersey.
The cooperative also operates stores under the Key Food Marketplace, Key Fresh & Natural, Food Dynasty, Urban Market, Food World, Food Universe Marketplace, SuperFresh, and The Food Emporium banners.
During the 1970s and '80s, Key Food was connected to a trucking firm that committed $10 million worth of tax fraud.
In 1984, LAMM Food Corporation of Port Washington, New York – an affiliate that operated four Key Food stores at the time – was among three chains charged with price fixing for conspiring to stop redeeming discount coupons at double and triple their face value in 1981 and 1982. LAMM, Supermarkets General, and King Kullen each pleaded no contest.
On November 30, 1986, Key Foods president Camillo D'Urso went missing while fishing in Key Largo. He was never found and was presumed to have drowned. In February 1987, Pasquale Conte, owner of the affiliated Tapps Supermarkets and a director of the cooperative, was arrested for his involvement in the attempted murder of a defendant in the Pizza Connection trial. Long suspected of mob ties, Conte was involved in a heroin smuggling operation with the Sicilian Mafia. Though the disappearance of D'Urso was believed to be unrelated to the hit, the FBI did investigate a connection. In an unrelated case, Conte later pleaded guilty in 1994 to a 1990 mob-related murder and was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
In January 1997, nearly 100 workers were laid off from the co-op's warehouse in Canarsie when distribution operations were moved to New Jersey. Another 200 jobs were saved after a union agreement kept the Brooklyn facility open.
Key Food first experimented with home delivery in 1998, when two stores owned by Gemstone Supermarkets partnered with Homedelivery.com. In July 2000, Key Food began outsourcing its distribution and transportation operations to Grocery Haulers, Inc. As part of the deal, the company sold its fixed assets, including two New York-based warehouses and inventory to GHI. In November 2008, the cooperative names Dean Janeway as chief executive officer.
In 2011, Key Food expanded to Connecticut and New Jersey, with stores in Stamford and Jersey City. It also launched a new banner, Fresh n’ Save Marketplace, with two locations in Staten Island and Queens. In August 2012, the co-op reopened its South Street Seaport location as 55 Fulton Market, a 23,000 square feet, two-floor flagship store.
Key Food
Key Food Stores Co-op, Inc. is a cooperative of independently owned supermarkets, founded in Brooklyn, New York, on April 20, 1937. Its stores are located in Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida. The headquarters for the Key Food cooperative is in Matawan and New Jersey.
The cooperative also operates stores under the Key Food Marketplace, Key Fresh & Natural, Food Dynasty, Urban Market, Food World, Food Universe Marketplace, SuperFresh, and The Food Emporium banners.
During the 1970s and '80s, Key Food was connected to a trucking firm that committed $10 million worth of tax fraud.
In 1984, LAMM Food Corporation of Port Washington, New York – an affiliate that operated four Key Food stores at the time – was among three chains charged with price fixing for conspiring to stop redeeming discount coupons at double and triple their face value in 1981 and 1982. LAMM, Supermarkets General, and King Kullen each pleaded no contest.
On November 30, 1986, Key Foods president Camillo D'Urso went missing while fishing in Key Largo. He was never found and was presumed to have drowned. In February 1987, Pasquale Conte, owner of the affiliated Tapps Supermarkets and a director of the cooperative, was arrested for his involvement in the attempted murder of a defendant in the Pizza Connection trial. Long suspected of mob ties, Conte was involved in a heroin smuggling operation with the Sicilian Mafia. Though the disappearance of D'Urso was believed to be unrelated to the hit, the FBI did investigate a connection. In an unrelated case, Conte later pleaded guilty in 1994 to a 1990 mob-related murder and was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
In January 1997, nearly 100 workers were laid off from the co-op's warehouse in Canarsie when distribution operations were moved to New Jersey. Another 200 jobs were saved after a union agreement kept the Brooklyn facility open.
Key Food first experimented with home delivery in 1998, when two stores owned by Gemstone Supermarkets partnered with Homedelivery.com. In July 2000, Key Food began outsourcing its distribution and transportation operations to Grocery Haulers, Inc. As part of the deal, the company sold its fixed assets, including two New York-based warehouses and inventory to GHI. In November 2008, the cooperative names Dean Janeway as chief executive officer.
In 2011, Key Food expanded to Connecticut and New Jersey, with stores in Stamford and Jersey City. It also launched a new banner, Fresh n’ Save Marketplace, with two locations in Staten Island and Queens. In August 2012, the co-op reopened its South Street Seaport location as 55 Fulton Market, a 23,000 square feet, two-floor flagship store.
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