[4] In 1920, Gaspare and Josephine Genuardi owned a farm near Norristown, Pennsylvania and grew fruits and vegetables.

The five Genuardi brothers expanded their supermarkets throughout the western Philadelphia suburbs, spanning Bucks, Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery counties.

In 1975, it acquired some former Pantry Pride, originally known as Food Fair, and A&P stores, and more ex-A&P properties rejected by Super Fresh in 1985.

In the late 1980s, the five brothers decided to transfer ownership of the stores to a third generation of family, which consisted of Jim Jr., Joe Jr., Charles A., Larry, Tom Jr., Michael, Anthony, Skip, and David Genuardi.

This allowed customers to order groceries via the Genuardi's/Safeway websites and have it delivered by truck in a set time frame.

Later on in the year, Genuardi's closed two underperforming stores in East Windsor, New Jersey and Bensalem, Pennsylvania, the latter of which was converted to a ShopRite.

[12] After failing to find a buyer for the location, the Cherry Hill store closed on August 4, 2012, and later became Whole Foods Market.

The Barnegat store was set to re-open when Acme Markets, the chain's long-time rival, announced in late 2015 it would be taking over the closed Barnegat location; this was made possible when Albertsons (Acme's parent firm) merged with Safeway earlier in the year, and Safeway continued to hold the location's lease long after it closed.