Price Chopper buys five North Country P&C stores

Grocery stores in northern New York have gone through a shake up over the last six months.

Penn-Traffic, which owned P&C grocery stores, filed for bankruptcy in November. Price Chopper put in a bid for some of these stores. But after many negotiations and last-minute offers, a federal judge approved the sale of all 79 Penn Traffic stores in New York, Pennsylvania and New England to Tops Friendly Markets.

Tonight, Tops announced it will sell these P&C grocery stores to Price Chopper:

-Canton
-Potsdam
-Gouverneur
-Massena
-West Carthage

In a press release, Tops President and CEO Frank Curci said these stores:

were on the outer edge of our geographic footprint and would best be served by another retailer with more familiarity with those markets

Penn Traffic and Tops are union shops. Price Chopper is not.

What will this change mean to you and the way you buy groceries?