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TOUR: Cousins Fresh Market - Carroll Park, Philadelphia, PA

Cousins Fresh Market Owner: Rushdi Mohammad Opened:  2013 Cooperative:  none Location:  5429 W Girard Ave, Carroll Park, Philadelphia, PA Photographed:  December 2021 Our second Philadelphia tour, about half a mile south of yesterday's ShopRite , bears a lot of similarities to the American Family Market we saw in Narberth. It was also built in the early 1950s (or so) as an A&P, although this one was retrofitted with a very simple Centennial facade in the early 1960s. I doubt this store made it to the SuperFresh (post-1983) era, when all Philadelphia-area A&P stores were converted to SuperFresh, and at some point it became an American Family Market also. The Girard American Family Market eventually gave way to the KS Thriftway , and it's unclear whether that store was actually affiliated with the Thriftway cooperative given that they didn't use the logo on the sign. That store closed around 2012, being converted to a Cousins Fresh Market in 2013. Cousins Fres...