Coatesville Dems: It's much better, I think. Until 1980 Angelo Bruno ran supermarkets in Southeast Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey "Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you."

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I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

It's much better, I think. Until 1980 Angelo Bruno ran supermarkets in Southeast Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey "Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you."

The Washington Post

Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you.

Jaclyn Peiser

September 24, 2024 at 6:05 a.m. EDT

Tom Thumb in Plano, Texas. Star Market in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Pavilions in Newport Beach, California. Jewel-Osco in Glenview, Illinois. What do these regional grocery chains have in common? They’re all owned by Albertsons, the Boise, Idaho-based company with more than 2,200 locations under about two dozen banners.

Over the past three decades, the traditional supermarket industry shrunk as a handful of big-name grocers acquired their smaller local and regional rivals. Now Walmart, Kroger, Aldi (Süd) and Albertsons own a third of all U.S. grocery stores locations, according to a Washington Post analysis of OpenStreetMap location data.

But the marquee companies could further concentrate their dominance: A federal judge in Portland, Ore., is currently deciding whether Kroger and Albertsons can proceed with a merger in what would be the biggest supermarket union in U.S. history.

Here are the supermarket chains with the most locations across the country.

Grocery territories of America

The most common grocery store owner by area

I think it was impossible to live in Philadelphia back then and not come across the mob. - James Pitcherella

Angelo Bruno controlled ChesCo supermarkets. “The most obvious change as a result of Bruno’s death was that you could buy a ricotta cheese besides “Maggio’s” and maybe the supermarket hamburger wouldn’t kill you if you cooked it medium rare.”

FROM:

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Richard Legree, Save our Farm and the “Too Big to Fail” Chester County Drug business.

Consumer Reports did a hamburger study. They were concerned with food safety of McDonalds and other fast food hamburgers.

They compared fast food hamburgers with supermarket hamburgers assuming that the highest quality hamburger came from supermarkets.

Chester County PA was the standard place for surveys as it represented a cross section of America.

The results surprised them. Hamberger from fast food was fine. Supermarket hamburger from Chester County was laden with bacteria. In some samples no amount of cooking could make them safe to eat.

They didn''t know that Angelo Bruno controlled Chester County markets and his Mafia added sick cows to the hamburger mix.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

With a lot less words the New York Times could have said many Teamster racist misogynist White men don’t like Kamala Harris. That Teamster President Sean O’Brian is a misogynist racist who likes Trump the mobster wannabe convict

Watching the Irishman was almost like watching a home movie:

Funny thing, I worked out at a small gym. As in the article below a young man there was a gangster's son.

He was badly beaten by a bouncer at a New Jersey restaurant. He wanted Frank Rizzo to make him a cop because he had people to settle with.

I think it was impossible to live in Philadelphia back then and not come across the mob. - James Pitcherella

"One evening I was on a treadmill at the club when a handsome young man on the treadmill to my left struck up a conversation. He asked what kind of work I did, and when I told him, he said, “Oh my God. I read your column every day. It's great to meet you. Hey, I think I can get a great interview for you with my uncle. It would make a terrific story.”

I thought that maybe his uncle was a chef or union leader or maybe even an elected official, so of course I asked him who his uncle was since you never know where the next good story comes from.

'My uncle is Phil Testa,” he said. “Do you know who that is?”

FROM:

The Chestnut Hill Local

How my dinner with a Philly mob boss turned into a dynamite story

by Len Lear

Posted Thursday, January 11, 2024 12:00 am