King Kullen closing Levittown supermarket Thursday

King Kullen will close another “underperforming” supermarket — this time in Levittown — on Thursday.

The grocer did not renew the lease, said Lloyd Singer, spokesman for King Kullen Grocery Co., which is headquartered in Hauppauge.

“King Kullen is honored to have served the Levittown community for more than 30 years,” Singer said in a statement.

No layoffs will occur, he said.

“Employees are being reassigned or offered positions at other King Kullen locations,” he said.

King Kullen would not disclose the number of employees who work at the store, but union locals provided some employment numbers.

Most King Kullen employees at the Levittown store are members of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 1500 in Westbury, said Aly Y. Waddy, secretary-treasurer.

UFCW Local 1500 represents 49 employees at the store, who are cashiers or work in the bakery, bookkeeping, dairy, deli, floral, grocery, produce or receiving departments, she said.

Also, UFCW Local 342 on Staten Island represents five workers in the meat department in the Levittown store, said Keeley Lampo, the director of activities and communications for the local.   

Located at 3284 Hempstead Tpke., the Levittown grocery store opened in January 1994.

King Kullen Grocery Co. has 31 stores, all on Long Island, including 27 King Kullen supermarkets. The other four stores are Wild by Nature natural food stores.

King Kullen is still the largest family-owned grocery chain on Long Island after closing several stores over the past few years, including a Wild by Nature store in West Islip in May 2023 and three King Kullen stores in Mt. Sinai, Lake Ronkonkoma and North Babylon in 2019 that the company said were underperforming.

The company also closed two King Kullen stores in Franklin Square and Glen Cove in July 2022 but declined to say why.

By Tory N. Parrish

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Tory N. Parrish covers retail and small business for Newsday. She has worked at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y.