Associated Supermarkets provide services to a network of approximately 250 independent grocery retail stores, many located in New York City.

[3][4][5] AFS built a new warehouse and office complex at 179-45 Brinkerhoff Avenue, in Jamaica, Queens, replete with a loading dock that was served by a stretch of railroad track.

While most of the stores were neighborhood size groceries, members began to build larger supermarkets on Long Island and other locations in the tri-state, metropolitan area.

In January 1972, Eric Steinberg was elected president and chief executive officer of Associated Food Stores, Inc. Chalek remained as chairman of the board.

[10][11] In October 2008, two executives at the Associated Supermarket at 229 Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick were arrested cheating the store's grocery baggers out of $300,000 in wages and falsifying business records that were given to state officials.

[12][13] In July 2009, the owners of the store and a Pioneer Supermarket in the same neighborhood were ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution to more than 50 baggers and delivery workers.

[24] In January 2021, AUA sold Associated Supermarket Group to ASG's senior management, led by CEO Joe Garcia and executive vice president Zulema Wiscovitch.