Super Duper was a chain of

supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retail#Types of outlets, shop offering a wide variety of food, Drink, beverages and Household goods, household products, organized into sections. Strictly speaking, a supermarket is larger and has a wider selecti ...

s once prevalent in north-eastern

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, Vermont and

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. With the 1997 demise of its owner, Burt Prentice Flickinger Jr., who had been instrumental in the success and growth of "

S.M. Flickinger Red & White was the first store brand for grocery merchandise, food products, beverages and household supplies. The brand was first launched on cans of coffee in 1908 by Smith Michael (S.M.) Flickinger in Buffalo, New York to compete with A&P ...

Co.", the company started a slow demise, and the last store disappeared in March 2010. Flickinger's son Burt III works as a consultant in the grocery industry.

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