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Supermarket chain King Kullen is set to close its Levittown store after 30 years in business, an employee confirmed to Daily Voice. The store will close for good at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3.
Employees are being offered positions at the grocer’s other Long Island locations.
Founded in 1930, the Hauppauge-based King Kullen operates 31 locations across Nassau and Suffolk counties, four of them under its Wild by Nature subsidiary.
The company is recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as America's first supermarket, as it was the first to fulfill all five criteria that define the modern supermarket:
- Separate departments
- Self-service
- Discount pricing
- Chain marketing
- Volume dealing
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