C&S Wholesale Grocers will mark the official return of the Grand Union supermarket banner with the opening of 11 stores in New York and Vermont. In November, C&S announced it had acquired a dozen Tops Market stores. Those are the stores which have now been converted into the Grand Union banners.
Ten of the Grand Union stores will be in New York in the towns of Warrensburg, Peru, Saranac Lake, Watertown, Rome, Sherrill, Cooperstown, Norwich, Owego, and Cortland. Vermont will have one store in Rutland. Another Tops Market store in New York State will open this month under the Piggly Wiggly banner.
“The Grand Union stores are back and better than ever. We have taken an iconic brand that everyone loved and leveraged our best-in-class retail strategies to take this legendary brand to the next level,” C&S Wholesale Grocers CEO Bob Palmer said in a press release about the store unveilings. “Shoppers will get great prices and an extensive selection of fresh and grocery staples. These stores have been specially designed and stocked to ensure braggingly happy customers with a customized local assortment.”
Plans for the new Grand Unions also include online grocery shopping and Click ‘N Shop curbside pickup service. As of now, the Warrensburg, N.Y., and Rutland, Vt., stores offer Click ‘N Shop delivery service through Instacart.
C&S Wholesale is the largest U.S. grocery distributor and supplies over 7,500 independent supermarkets, chain stores, military bases, and institutions, offering more than 100,000 products.