COOP (Puerto Rico)

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Coop or Supermercados Fam Coop is a Puerto Rican supermarket chain. [1] It has been operating since the 1960s.

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History

During the 1970s. Supermercados COOP in Puerto Rico had a similar logo to that used by other COOP supermarkets around the world (two green trees inside a circle). There were locations at key Puerto Rican cities, including one at Santa Juanita, Bayamon, Plaza del Carmen Mall in Caguas, among others.

Subsequent years saw the demise of Grand Union, a chain with a large presence on the Puerto Rican market after being acquired in 1982 by Supermercados Amigo, later on, Supermercados COOP was acquired by Supermercados Amigo in 1983 [2] and the increased competition caused Supermercados Amigo to close Supermercados COOP during the late 1980s. This allowed Supermercados Amigo, a nominally large supermarket chain until then, to expand across the country and rapidly become one of the major players in the Puerto Rican supermarket industry.

Brand return

During 2002, [3] a new kind of supermarkets, named Fam-Coop, started opening across the tiny country. There are a number of them in places such as Bayamon, (Fam-Coop La Milagrosa, opened in 2010) [4] Rincon, [5] San Juan (also named Fam-Coop La Milagrosa-as there are two La Milagrosa neighborhoods in Puerto Rico, one in Bayamon and another in San Juan-and it also opened in 2010) [6] Isabela, [7] Arecibo, (Mi Familia Fam Coop) [8] and other towns.

See also

  1. ↑ http://shoppers.elnuevodia.com/FSI/Brands.aspx?advid=201297&fsi=15525&version=v1&brandid=14561%5B%5D
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". amigo.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2005. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Home". famcooppr.com.
  4. ↑ "SUPERMERCADO FAM COOP LA MILAGROSA - BAYAMON, PR - Company Profile". www.dandb.com.
  5. ↑ "Supermercados Fam Coop". Foursquare.
  6. ↑ http://listings.findthecompany.com/l/20418097/Supermercado-Fam-Coop-La-Milagrosa-in-San-Juan-PR%5B%5D
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2015-05-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ↑ "Supermercado Fam Coop Mi Familia". Foursquare.

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