COOP (Puerto Rico)

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

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, Bayamón, 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

• Coop (Switzerland)

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