Why Pathmark DIED

Every Pathmark in New Jersey vanished by 2015, and the real story isn't just competition, it's a $1.3 billion deal signed right before the economy crashed. This video traces Pathmark from its 1968 breakaway from ShopRite, through the crowded parking lots and Saturday routines that made it a fixture of towns like Linden, East Brunswick, and Clifton, to the first bankruptcy in 2000, the fateful A&P merger in 2007, and the final collapse in 2015 that took a 156-year-old grocery giant down with it. Along the way we look at what happened to the buildings, the neighborhoods left behind, and why a brand nobody thought twice about disappeared almost overnight. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:49 Founding and Growth of Pathmark 3:16 First Bankruptcy in 2000 7:21 A&P Buys Pathmark 9:48 Deb If you remember shopping at your local Pathmark, drop a comment and let us know what store it was and what you always picked up there. And if you're into more stories about the places and names New Jersey used to know, subscribe, there's a lot more of this history still to cover.