Even if you didn’t watch him much, you knew his name. At least his tv name.
Pete Napolitano was a Jersey guy who grew up with a dad in the produce business. As a 5-year-old boy, he’d work with his father, knocking on doors peddling produce off his dad’s truck. He became an iconic grocer in Bergenfield and never dreamed of being a tv personality.
In fact, when a producer from WOR overheard him being personable with a customer at his shop and approached him about a possible job, he was completely uninterested. This woman from WOR called him nearly a dozen times trying to get him interested, and he said no every time…