EXHIBIT 99.1
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                              STATEMENT UNDER OATH

I, Joseph V. Fisher, state and attest that:

     (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports
     of The Penn Traffic Company (the "Company"), and, except as corrected or
     supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

     o   no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as
         of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
         report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on
         which it was filed); and

     o   no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make
         the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances
         under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period
         covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or
         definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

     (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit
     committee.

     (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
     before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

     o   Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
         February 2, 2002 filed with the Commission;

     o   all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive
         proxy materials of the Company filed with the Commission subsequent to
         the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

     o   any amendments to any of the foregoing.


                                        Subscribed and sworn to
                                        before me this 18th day of
         /s/ Joseph V. Fisher           Setpember 2002.
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         Joseph V. Fisher               /s/ Francis D. Price, Jr.
         September 18, 2002             -----------------------------------
                                        Notary Public
                                        My Commission Expires: May 31, 2006