The Story of Waldbaum’s: From a Brooklyn Butter Shop to a Long Island Supermarket Icon

I had a good friend who used to work at Waldbaum s in the 1970s. He worked in the deli department. I would go in there and see him every once in a while, and he always seemed to be having a lot of fun. There were a lot of young people working in the department and throughout the store, and it almost seemed like a high school. I mean, I was pretty young at the time; it seemed like a fun place to…