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Fairway Market

(Private)  
Retail
500 - 1,000 employees  |  
Approx. 7 active jobs   |  Website
Overview

The history of Fairway started in 1933 with Nathan Glickberg. He founded a small fruit and vegetable stand simply to support his family.

In 1954, Nathan and his son, Leo, partnered to create the beginnings of the first store at 74th St. and Broadway. In 1974, after having grown up learning the family trade, Leo’s son, Howie Glickberg, came into the business with a bigger dream and grander vision of growing Fairway. Howie inherited sawdust covered wooden floors, item racks supported by milk crates, and a square footage that only had room for four cash registers. With an extraordinary work ethic, Howie wasted no time looking for opportunities to expand, and soon Fairway lived up to its slogan "LIKE NO OTHER MARKET®," which is a registered trademark of the company. He brought in two partners, Harold Seybert and David Sneddon, and together the three of them catapulted Fairway well beyond anything that Howie’s grandfather, Nathan, could have imagined.

Culture

Back in the 1970s, Fairway was an unassuming Upper West Side, one storefront shop that offered the best values on fruits and vegetables and penny candy out of self-service bins built into a wall. The neighborhood truly loved and embraced it, food lovers traveled across town to shop there, and soon the three partners started to realize their vision of expansion. They brought in traditional groceries and specialty items, and started hiring the crew of ambitious, hardworking foodies who would one day become Fairway’s experts, department heads, and vice presidents.

Fairway took over the space next door, and by the mid-1980s talk of Fairway Market was reaching a fever pitch all over town and beyond. Fairway was always first to offer unique, different, imported, things-you-didn’t-know-existed foodstuffs. The low prices captured lots of attention and the new-and-improved product offering earned a new-found respect. Newspapers, magazines, foodies and the like could not stop writing and raving about it.
Green Commitment

When Fairway started as a produce stand in Manhattan's Upper West Side in the 1930s, green was just one of the colors of the fruits and vegetables we had for sale. As we celebrate nearly 80 years in the business, green has come to take on a whole new meaning. Today, we at Fairway know that a healthy Earth makes for healthy food. We want to be responsive to not just our customers and our employees, but to the environment that we all share - the environment that provides the very basis for our business.

By instilling and supporting sustainable environmental practices as a corporate value, we at Fairway are taking the steps that will help lessen our ecological footprint and will help to ensure that the Earth is around long enough for everyone on it to experience why we're really "Like No Other Market"®
Contact
Fairway Market
2284 12th Avenue
New York, New York 10027
United States