It did not stop people from flocking in huge droves to the new place, the largest, newest and least expensive supermarket for a long distance in any direction
I just had to visit the Fairway today while it was not too crowded ( it is hell when it is a mob scene there, often in the early evening when people get back from work)
Here we go--for fun, fun, fun in the Fairway
http://youtu.be/c2yyISmTvAQ
Oh yes, I love how the vitamin section coyly says these products on display have been recommended by "Dr. You Know Who," who of course could be nobody but the publcity hound Dr. Mehmet Oz-- but of course they won't say that at the store...clever, eh?
I noticed again the tons and tons of fresh fruit and produce at this place...I wonder what they do with it when it starts to go bad. I hope it is rushed out of there to feed the homeless, but I wonder.
Wikipedia warns that their article" seems to be written like an advertisement," so I recommend you check out your local Fairway with Yelp.
Fairway Market
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Fairway Markets.
For other uses, see Fairway (disambiguation).
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| Type | Public |
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| Traded as | NASDAQ: FWM |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1930s |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Key people | Charles Santoro, Chairman Herb Ruetsch, CEO Bill Sanford, President Howie Glickberg, Vice Chairman of Development |
| Products | Supermarket |
| Revenue | $810 million |
| Website | FairwayMarket.com Fairwaywines.com |
The flagship store still occupies the original Broadway location at West 74th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with larger locations in Harlem; the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn; Paramus, New Jersey; Plainview, Long Island; Pelham Manor, New York; Stamford, Connecticut; and Woodland Park, New Jersey. In 2011, Fairway expanded even further with two more locations: one on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, which opened July 20th, and the other in Douglaston, Queens, which opened on November 16th. In 2012, Fairway Market opened three more locations: in Woodland Park, New Jersey on June 6; Westbury, Long Island on August 22; and Kips Bay in midtown Manhattan in late December. In 2013, Fairway Market opened a location in Chelsea, Manhattan and another in Nanuet, New York. The company currently employs about 5,000 people.[citation needed]
Sterling Investment Partners, a private equity firm in Westport, Connecticut, bought a controlling stake in Fairway Market in January 2007 and committed to substantially expanding the chain in the Greater New York metropolitan area. Sterling made a $150 million capital investment in Fairway and has thus far committed to over $100 million for Fairway’s expansion, enabling the enterprise to grow rapidly and generating 2,100 new jobs in the tri-state area within the ensuing 3 1/2 years.[1]
In 2011, the chain had revenues of $550 million.[2] It was spun off in an IPO on April 17, 2013, trading under its parent Fairway Group Holdings on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol FWM.[3]
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Stores
The original Fairway Market, at West 74th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was a modest produce shop. By 1997, it had expanded. A café serves sandwiches, burgers, and breakfast, and becomes a steakhouse by night. In September of 2012, a shopper's video of mice and/or rats walking on open bins of olives and in at least one other part of the store went viral.[4] [5]In 1995, Fairway's Harlem store opened in a significantly larger space. This store has a 10,000-square-foot (930 m) enclosed space, the "Cold Room", which contains the store's meats, seafood, dairy products, and beer. Silver coats hang nearby for customers who wish to keep warm while browsing the freezer.
In 2001, the company opened its first store outside the city, in the Long Island community of Plainview. In 2006, it opened its fourth store, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Growth and expansion
On April 14, 2010, Fairway opened a new branch in the Westchester County village of Pelham Manor, directly across The Bronx border. This became Fairway's third location in the New York City suburbs and sixth overall. The company signed a lease on a 75,000 sq ft (6,967.7 m2) site formerly occupied by Kmart.[6]Fairway’s seventh location opened in November 2010 in Stamford, Connecticut and employs over 500 people. The Stamford store is the largest one to date at over 80,000 square feet.[7]
With the Pelham Manor opening, Fairway expanded its offering to its customers with their first 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) Wine and Spirit superstore adjacent to the market. Their second wine and spirit superstore is adjacent to the Stamford market; it is 6,500 square feet (600 m2). the newest is beside Fairway Market, Woodland Park; it includes a temperature controlled room for high-end wines, a tasting bar, and a staff of specialists and sommeliers.
In 2011, Fairway opened two new locations, one on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on 86th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, and one in Douglaston, Queens, generating more than 1,000 additional new jobs in the tri-state region.
In June 2012, Fairway opened its tenth food store and third Wine and Spirits Store in Woodland Park, New Jersey. Fairway Market opened a 68,000-square-foot store in the Roosevelt Raceway Center in Westbury in August, 2012. The store brought about 500 new jobs to the community. In December 2012, Fairway opened the Kips Bay location on East 30th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan.
Fairway Market opened their 13th store in Chelsea, in Manhattan, on July 24th, 2013.
Fairway opened their 14th store in Nanuet, New York, at the The Shops at Nanuet mall on October 10th, 2013.
Fairway Market will open a 53,000 square foot store in the DSW Plaza at 4000 Middle Country Road in Lake Grove Long Island, New York in Spring 2014. This store will be the first Fairway Market location in Suffolk County on Long Island and the 15th food store in the tri-state New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region.
In Fall 2014, Fairway will open a 52,242 square foot grocery in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood, on two stories at 255 Greenwich St. (at Murray St). It will be the first Fairway location in Lower Manhattan and the 16th Fairway food store.
Fairway Market will be the anchor food tenant in Hudson Yards, the new real estate development on Manhattan's West Side. It is scheduled to open in 2015. The Hudson Yards location would be the eighth Fairway supermarket in the city. The brand new 45,000 square foot supermarket will take up the ground floor retail space in the project's South Tower at 30th Street and Tenth Avenue.
Cheesemonger
Template:Unreferenced sectin In 1976, Fairway Market’s Master Cheesemonger and Master Buyer, Steve Jenkins, was the first American cheesemonger inducted into France’s centuries-old Guilde des Fromager, Confrerie de Saint-Uguzon, which is The French master cheesemongers’ guild in Dijon, and today he is a prud’homme, the guild’s highest status. In 1982, he became the first American to be inducted into France’s master cheesemonger guild, the Taste-Fromage. In 1995, Jenkins was also dubbed “The city’s premier authority on cheese” by New York magazine in its “The 100 Smartest New Yorkers” special issue. Then in 1996, he published the book Cheese Primer, which has since been honored with a prestigious James Beard Award. In 2004, Jenkins was named one of the most important people who shaped the specialty food industry by The Gourmet Retailer. In 2008, Jenkins also received the American Cheese Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In that same year, he published his second book, The Food Life: Inside the World of Food with the Grocer Extraordinaire at Fairway. In addition, he’s a contributing writer for Fairway Market’s blog On Our Plate and for the Olive Oil Times.Jenkins is often interviewed by the media, and he and Fairway Market were featured during a History Channel Modern Marvels documentary on cheese.[when?][citation needed] Other media appearances have included PBS with Jacques Pepin, CBS’s Sunday Morning, the Rachael Ray Show, and The Splendid Table on NPR with Lynne Rossetto Kasper.
Community involvement
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Fairway also has a history of giving during the holidays. In 2010, it donated more than 20,000 nutritious holiday meals to the Food Bank for Westchester. And for Thanksgiving 2011, Fairway Market donated more than 2,500 turkeys.[citation needed]
Additionally, Fairway Market has had a longstanding commitment to firefighters, and in the months following 9/11, adopted local firehouses, supplying them with food throughout the rescue and recovery and clean-up efforts. Fairway also hosts annual Firefighter Food Face-Off events where firefighters can compete against one another in a grilling competition where the winning team wins a gift card to shop at Fairway for their firehouse. Fairway also hosts a Shopping Night in honor of the winning firefighters where a percentage of proceeds are donated to a charity of their choice.[citation needed]
Fairway Market hosts Shopping Nights like these for other organizations, too, such as the one it hosted in October 2011 for St. Luke’s LifeWorks, in Connecticut, during which 25 percent of all sales were donated to this social service non-profit agency that aids the homeless in Lower Fairfield County.[citation needed]
Fairway Market rushed to help during Superstorm Sandy, keeping its stores open and delivering food and cleaning supplies to people in need. Fairway Market donated $30,000 to ReStore Red Hook, a non-profit group dedicated to the recovery of small businesses forced to close after Sandy ravaged the neighborhood in October.[citation needed]
Fairway Market was the Hospitality Partner at Macy's 37(th) Annual Fourth of July Fireworks Show on July 4, 2013. Thousands of guests invited by Macy's enjoyed dinner, drinks and dessert provided by Fairway, and watched the fireworks display from a prime location on the Westside of Manhattan.[citation needed]
Thanksgiving
Every year during Thanksgiving, Fairway has made it a tradition to give a happy holiday to those less fortunate. In all of its locations, Fairway donates food to shelters and food banks so that people who can’t afford a good Thanksgiving dinner can get one for free. Along with turkeys, Fairways typically gives the usual holiday fixings, including stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc. Last year, just from its Uptown store, Fairway donated over 650 turkeys throughout the city.[8]Environmental Commitment
Along with Fairway’s Red Hook store's being awarded the U.S. government’s ENERGY STAR CHP Award for its conservation efforts[citation needed], Fairway Market’s stores are using Energy Star qualified fixtures and equipment. The lighting in the stores is energy efficient, and the heat generated by Fairway’s refrigeration and freezer units is reclaimed to heat the stores’ aisles and hot water. Fairway also uses waste-to-water technology as part of its waste decomposition system to eliminate the hauling of solids to landfills. And most of the products shipped to Fairway use 100% recyclable corrugated materials and nearly all are stacked on 100% recycled pallets. Plus, cleaning and maintenance supplies that are DfE certified, which is the EPA’s Design for the Environment program, are used in part at the stores and its facilities, and they’re purchased in concentrated form to not use and waste excess packaging. Lastly, Fairway’s Stamford store is in a LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building.[citation needed]References
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