Shop N Bag Owner: John Doyle Opened: 1993 Cooperative: Allegiance Retail Services Location: 10 Bank St, Farmingdale, NJ Photographed: December 2020 We are here in the small town of Farmingdale, New Jersey to tour the last operating Shop N Bag! A longtime Philadelphia area cooperative, Thriftway Shop N Bag finally was dissolved in 2016 (the majority of the remaining stores were converted to Your Local IGA stores, run by the Retail Marketing Group, and supplied by Bozzutto's of Cheshire, CT). Those stores all became IGAs, but this one remains a Shop N Bag but under the Allegiance Retail ( Foodtown / Pathmark / Green Way ) cooperative. It's unclear exactly to me the arrangement that allows them to continue using the name, but it seems that a subsidiary of C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene, NH licenses the name to this store and/or Allegiance, as C&S also supplies Allegiance stores. By the way, here's some solid background on early Thriftway Shop N Bag. The 16...