'New York's Original Grocer' Struggling To Survive

Shopping at a D’Agostino supermarket is a lot like watching “The Hunger Games.”

Cutthroat competition and changing shopping habits have left the 83-year-old New York City-based company struggling to survive — the shelves increasingly bare as suppliers withhold food over the grocer’s late and missed payments.

The fourth-generation company, which has 13 stores in Manhattan and one in Westchester, had 26 stores at its peak two decades ago and was run by more than half a dozen members of the D’Agostino clan — some of whom have since defected to competitors, including Food Emporium.

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