Fazio's Stop N Shop and Pick N Pay

In late April 1963, Fazio's Stop N Shop opened at 22840 Lake Shore Blvd. It was a supermarket very similar to a modern supermarket of today. Besides food on the shelves, it had a bakery, butcher, and a huge produce department. It also made hot meals. The food was made ready to eat. It sold food made in Italy, Denmark, and England.

Peter Dichmann was a pastry chef from Copenhagen who ran the bakery department at Fazio's. He would make 1500 loaves of bread, cupcakes, donuts, and pies. They were especially known for their strawberry pies.

This was Fazio's 6th supermarket and the largest to date. It had a huge produce section. They had a cheese section with over 125 different types of cheeses. The butcher had a meat counter with a 160 feet of space. They had steaks, pork chops, veal, and chicken.

In 1964, the Pick and Pay located at the Euclid-Richmond Shopping Center remodeled the whole store. It expanded to 10,275 feet of space. Pick and Pay had been located at the same shopping center since 1952.

This Pick and Pay had a bakery department which was delivered from Pick and Pay's own bakery, a big frozen food department and butcher. It did not seem as large as the Fazio's on Lakeshore. My parents would take me shopping at this location when I was a kid. It closed sometime in the early 1990's. It was there about 40 or more years.