Cronigs Market Celebrates 100 Years

March 9, 2017
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Cronig's Celebrates 100 Years of Feeding the Vineyard Community

Louisa Hufstader
When Sam Cronig and his three brothers opened their Vineyard Haven market in March 1917, the world was still at war in Europe.
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Tisbury History
August 14, 2015
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Community Groceries Program Helps Neighbors in Need

Alex Elvin

Cronig’s Market has launched a new program to provide families in need with fresh produce and other items not commonly available in food pantries.

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Cronigs Market Celebrates 100 Years
August 28, 2014
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Always Shopping for New Ideas Helps Feed the Future

Mollie Doyle
On any given day the owner of Cronig’s Markets can be found sweeping the parking lot of his stores, pulling bull briar and poison ivy at Thimble Farm or expanding his myriad evolving business interests. Steve Bernier says at heart he is just an old-fashioned entrepreneur.
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January 26, 2012
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Cronig’s Plans a Power Play With Solar Panels in Parking Lot

Peter Brannen

Summer shoppers seeking shade may be able to do so this summer while powering up. Vineyard Power hopes to install a 12,200 square foot array of solar panels over the Vineyard Haven Cronig’s parking lot. The array, which will supply a quarter of the store’s energy needs, is made up of three “solar canopies,” which will also feature six electric car charging stations.

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Cronigs Market Celebrates 100 Years
March 15, 1917

Vineyard Haven

Vineyard Gazette
Our young citizens, the Cronig Brothers, have taken the store just vacated by the Alleys who have moved to Oak Bluffs.
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January 12, 1922

Vineyard Haven Briefs

Vineyard Gazette
Cronig Bros. have acquired a grocery store on wheels, a Reo truck with a large and impressive body painted brown and housing a store of no mean dimensions. If you meet it on the road you are likely to mistake it for one of the houses which are always hunting new homes on the Vineyard.
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January 11, 1923

Vineyard Haven Happenings: Local Items

Vineyard Gazette
Samuel Cronig, head of the firm of Cronig Bros., was the purchaser of Castello’s Block and while the changes are not all as predicted, they correspond closely. Barnacles will cling to the building opposite the one they now occupy, upstairs but with entrance from the Lane Block, as we hear.
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March 5, 1926

‘Round ‘Bout Tisbury

Vineyard Gazette
An electric refrigerating plant has been installed in Cronig Brother’s market. It is said that some of the other markets are also to have plants installed.
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February 29, 1952

A Momentous Week for the Clan of Cronig

Vineyard Gazette
Next week is a momentous one in the history of the Clan of Cronig, Vineyard Haven, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the market business by the elder of the family, Sam Cronig.
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November 26, 1954

It’s Fifty Years for Sam Cronig, Not a Golden Wedding But Golden Memories of Life in U.S.A.

Vineyard Gazette
Samuel Cronig, best known as Sam, a grocer of Vineyard Haven, bought a box of “gold-coin” chocolates this week, chocolates which are so moulded and wrapped as to resemble twenty-dollar gold pieces.
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Profiles
April 20, 1956
David and Robert Cronig

Cronig Brothers Now Become Incorporated But Not Too Much Change Appears in Familiar Market

Vineyard Gazette
Cronig Brothers Market, Vineyard Haven, entering upon its thrity-ninth year, now becomes Cronig Brothers, Inc., with the active management passing officially into the hands of the second generation
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June 4, 1976

Opening of New Cronig’s Market Planned in July

Vineyard Gazette
The Cronig brothers are expanding again. Robert and David Cronig, who inherited their father’s grocery business in Vineyard Haven’s center in 1956, have enlarged their Main street market twice.
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November 29, 1985

Cronig Family Sells Market

David Corr
A Vineyard business tradition of nearly 10 years and a family tradition reaching back to Eastern Europe and the last century will end in January with the sale of Cronig’s State Road Market to an
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October 13, 1989

Cronig’s Main Street Market Prepares to Close Business for Last Time at the End of October

Paula Delbonis
Cronig’s Main Street Market, the 72-year-old grocery business in Vineyard Haven, will close its doors for the final time on Thursday, Oct.
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February 23, 1990

Cronig’s Market Buys Indian Hill Store Up-Island

Vineyard Gazette
Less than two months after Indian Hill Market came up for sale, Stephen Bernier has signed a purchase and sales agreement with owners Howard and Susan Ulfelder. Mr.
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March 22, 1996

New Cronig’s Up-Island Store Serves Vineyard’s Expanded Customer Base

Mark Alan Lovewell
As our community grows, so grows the grocery store business up-Island. The new Up-Island Cronig’s Market opened for business last Friday with no fanfare.
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