Friday, December 12, 2014

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.

7 comments:

  1. There was a Pick and Pay on E. 185 St. between Monterrey and Abbey. That's the first supermarket I remember going to, in the late 50's early '60's. It later turned into a slot car racing establishment.

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  2. The 185th Street Pick-n-Pay was their first super market (the company operated Farmview Creameries before then). It had a black tile front. For many years, it was Gale's Bi-Rite which expanded the footprint several times. Fazios's previously had been Foodtown which was acquired by Pick-n-Pay in 1959; because they already had a store down the street, the store was sold to an independent who operated it as a SuperValu.

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  3. My mother shopped at Pick-n-Pay and always took us kids with her. She'd joke that if you stole something it would be called Pick-n-Run. The Manager pictured, Pete Kelly worked there at the time. I remember my sister got her finger stuck in a square grate in the freezer section and Pete came running over and helped her get it out. Those days the cashiers made good money and worked there for years. I think they must have been in a union.I remember a cashier "Lenora". My mom said she made enough money to send her kids to college. After grocery shopping we would browse at Kresge and get a sub sandwich for $.29. Boy am I old.

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    1. Thanks for this comment. I love getting these sorts of little stories!

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  4. This was expanded into adjacent store fronts into an early Pick-n-Pay Food Palace (their large format) in the late 70s. This more or less coincided with Fisher Foods moving to an outlot at Euclid Square Mall as Fazio's.

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  5. There was a Pick-n-Pay at the corner of State Rd and Brookpark Rd, just south of the State Rd interchange of I-480, on the Parma/Cleveland boarder. It closed in the mid-1990s and It has been a Kia dealership for the last 20 years.

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