CTown Supermarkets
C-Town Supermarkets is a chain of independently-owned-and-operated supermarkets operating in the northeastern United States. C-Town was founded in 1975 with the goal of employing economies of scale to allow its small member stores to pool their purchasing and advertising power.
C-Town operates approximately 200 stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. C-Town is the fifth-largest food retailer in the New York City metropolitan area. C-Town is supplied by Krasdale Foods; many products sold in C-Town stores are labeled "Krasdale Foods." (Krasdale also is a supplier for the smaller Bravo supermarket chain.) Marketing and advertising for C-Town are handled by Alpha-I Marketing Corp.
Partial list of C-Town supermarkets
Connecticut (10 stores)
- Hartford County
- Main Street, East Hartford
- Barbour Street, Hartford
- New Britain Avenue, Hartford
- Park Street, Hartford
- Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford
- Main Street, New Britain
New Jersey
- Broadway, Bayonne
- West Edgar Road, Linden
- Bergen Avenue, Jersey City
- Clinton Avenue, Newark
- George Street, New Brunswick
- North Day Street, Orange
- Maple Street, Perth Amboy
- South Avenue, Plainfield
- West Grand Avenue, Rahway
- Main Street, South Bound Brook
New York
- Nassau County
- Beech Street, Long Beach
- Uniondale Avenue, Uniondale
- Post Avenue, Westbury
- Suffolk County
- New York Avenue, Huntington Station
- Westchester County:
- Main Street, New Rochelle (in photo above)
- Croton Avenue, Ossining
- Main Street, Peekskill
- North Broadway, Tarrytown
Pennsylvania
- Berks County
- Greenwich Street, Reading
- South 9th Street, Reading
- Lancaster County
- East King Street, Lancaster
- Lehigh County
- West Tilghman Street, Allentown
- Northampton County
- Line Street, Easton
In popular culture
In the Hindi movie Ta Ra Rum Pum, the character RV can be seen working in a C-Town during the song Nachle Ve.
Miscellany
A Classic Lotto jackpot of $2,600,000 (annuity value) was won by a ticket sold at the Danbury, Connecticut C-town; the drawing was held on June 18, 2010.