Globe: What happened to rock radio in Boston?

[Paul]

The I in IGA is for Independent. The IGA stores in New England are generally
supplied by AGNE (Associated Grocers of NE).

Remember in the late 60s early 70s when First National Stores (kind of)
rebranded as FINAST attempting to breathe life in what I believe even then was a
dying chain.

Let's see....South Shore Grocery Stores..
Fernandes (I think Randolph MA was their northern-most store...bought out (that
locale) by Sudbury Farms..
Capital (Which actually took over the FINAST store in Randolph)
BPM (Brockton Public Markets) which I believe was owned by the brother of the
Shaws owner previous to selling to the Brits.

Just a trip down Grocery Store memory lane....

-Paul Hopfgarten
Epping NH (then Randolph MA)


On June 5, 2012 at 9:51 AM "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:

> In those days, in small--mostly rural--communities (at least in the
> northeast, but probably in the other parts of the country as well),
> there was a group of grocery stores (I would call them "markets," not
> supermarkets) known as IGA stores. I believe the IGA markets were
> individually owned but participated in group buying as a means of
> competing against the big supermarket chains of the day (A&P and First
> National are the names that come to mind). I believe that IGA stood
> for International Grocers Association. Since the IGA name contained
> the word international, I suspect that IGA stores were found in Canada
> as well as in the US.
>
> I suspect that the WGY brand was started as a means of competing
> against IGA. Both names contain three letters, of which the middle
> letter is G. Like the IGA stores, the WGY stores were probably
> independently owned and banded together in some sort of co-op to
> increase their purchasing power. Although you have disputed this
> claim, there WERE WGY markets and apparently the markets collectively
> did enough business to get independent canning companies and suppliers
> of packaged goods, such as dry cereals and macaroni, to private label
> products under the WGY name. Until I figured this out. I could never
> understand why country stores in upstate New York carried the name of
> a radio station that was then owned by the mighty General Electric Co.
> OTOH, I think every WGY store I ever saw was in the large geographic
> area covered by WGY's 50 kW clear channel nighttime signal.
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 12:05 AM
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> >
> > I remember when I was in sixth grade in Guilderland, New York, just
> > outside Albany, for awhile I was one of the student help in the
> > lunch kitchen, and I saw these large cans of apple sauce with the
> > brand name "WGY."  The label on the cans even had a stylized drawing
> > of a radio station labelled "WGY.:  I have no idea why applesauce
> > was being sold under the WGY moniker, but it was.  This was around
> > 1956-57.
> >
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