Food Parade Incorporated is a Long Island based supermarket chain with two stores in Plainview, New York and one store in Commack, New York. Food Parade is a member of the ShopRite retailers' cooperative and therefore trades as ShopRite. Food Parade is owned by the Greenfield family, and calls itself Greenfield's ShopRite in local advertising and in store branding.
Food Parade began in the 1960s, with three stores. Two in Queens, and one in Smithtown, New York. In 1972 the existing three stores closed, and a new store located in Hicksville, New York opened. Another store located in Plainview opened in the Mannetto Hill Shopping Centre in the 1980s. In 1990 the Hicksville store was also moved to Plainview. During the mid 1990s both stores saw expansion and renovation. The Commack location opened in January 2011. Food Parade was formerly a member of the Foodtown cooperative until 1997, when they switched over to ShopRite.
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“For ordinary people, food is heaven.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Chaucer’s remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, “Ah, my dear God!””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)