Categories: News

What the hell is going on with Fairway?

A market like many others. Earlier this week, when The New York Post reported that Fairway—a beloved Big Apple supermarket chain with scattered locations throughout the city and its surrounding suburbs—would liquidate its fleet of stores, New Yorkers were stunned. It’s not that you can’t find its artisanal breads, cheeses, and seafood anywhere else—in fact, New York has plenty of great supermarkets. It’s more that the cult-like chain had survived, like yellow cabs and dollar slices, through thick and thin. (A location in Brooklyn’s remote Red Hook neighborhood is particularly beloved.) The grocery chain vigorously denied the Post’s report, saying it had “no intention” to do that, but today, the Times reports, it’s doing just that—filing for bankruptcy and selling its stores off. As another great New Yorker once said, it’s not a lie if you believe it.

Related Post
The Counter
Share
Published by
The Counter

Recent Posts

Grist acquires The Counter and launches food and agriculture vertical

Grist, an award-winning, nonprofit media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices,…

6 months ago

Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?

Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse…

2 years ago

Your car is killing coho salmon

Highway 7 runs north-south through western Washington, carving its way through a landscape sparsely dotted…

2 years ago

The pandemic has transformed America’s dining landscape into an oligopoly dominated by chains 

One of the greatest pleasures I had as a child growing up in the Chicago…

2 years ago

California is moving toward food assistance for all populations—including undocumented immigrants

Undocumented immigrants experience food insecurity at much higher rates than other populations, yet they are…

2 years ago

Babka, borscht … and pumpkin spice? Two writers talk about Jewish identity through contemporary cookbooks.

Writer Charlotte Druckman and editor Rebecca Flint Marx are both Jewish journalists living in New…

3 years ago