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TOUR: Hannaford - Clinton, MA

Hannaford Opened: 2004 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Victory Markets (ca. 1950s-2004) Cooperative:  none Location:  333 Brook St, Clinton, MA Photographed:  October 2, 2021 Just like so many other towns positioned right on a water source, Clinton was long a mill town, and many of those mill buildings still exist . Clinton is located at the northern end of the Wachusett Reservoir, on the Nashua River, and with a population of 15,000, it's one of the larger towns in northern Worcester County (excluding, of course, Fitchburg and Leominster, where we're headed next). As with the other Hannaford supermarkets in the Worcester County area, this store was built around the 1950s as a Victory Market, becoming a Hannaford when they acquired the chain in 2004. The store these days, which has been expanded, is around 35,000 square feet, much smaller than its competitor to the north, a Shaw's of around 55,000 square feet. We'll be there tomorrow. This store received a re
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Special Report: Stop & Shop (future) - Acton, MA

Stop & Shop Opening: December 13, 2024 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Kmart Cooperative:  none Location:  252 Main St, Acton, MA Photographed:  November 26 & 27, 2024 Contributor:  Andrew K. In addition to a look at SuperFresh and Food World stores in Brooklyn, we're getting a special look at the new Stop & Shop coming soon to Acton, MA today! A roughly 70,000 square foot former Kmart is being transformed into the newest Stop & Shop, whose footprint will be slightly smaller than the Kmart at around 64,000 square feet. Two other small storefronts are also being constructed. The facade is new, as the Kmart's was a much older, shingled awning design . Our contributor Andrew brings us a look inside the soon-to-open store. The store has Stop & Shop's newest decor package, which we saw in the Allston Yards location most recently. This location's decor is a bit simpler and older-feeling -- notice the white vinyl flooring and the white drop ce

Special Report: Food World Supermarket (future) - East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY

Food World Supermarket Opening: TBA Owner:  Hi Jong (Howard) Lee Previous Tenants:  Key Food > Pioneer Supermarkets > CTown Supermarkets Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  4209 Ave D, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  November 20, 2024 Today we're checking out two Key Food stores in progress in Flatbush! A mile west, a Food Universe has been doubled in size and switched to SuperFresh . And here in a quiet residential neighborhood along Avenue D, the area's only supermarket is about to be reopened after being closed for several years. The space on the right here has been a supermarket for a long time. It's 9500 square feet, and in 1999, opened as a Key Food (not sure what was there before Key Food). The store closed in 2015 and reopened as a Pioneer the same year, then closed in early 2017. Later in 2017, it actually reopened, again under the Pioneer banner, only to switch to CTown in early 2019. CTown closed in late 2022. In May 2023, Hi Jong Lee -- w

Special Report: SuperFresh - Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY

SuperFresh Opened: fall 2024 Owner:  Shee Chun Lee Previous Tenants:  Royal Farms > ? > CTown Supermarkets (closed 2018) > Food Universe Marketplace (2018-2024) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1188 Flatbush Ave, Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  November 20, 2024 Key Food's momentum has been very steady and very hard to ignore. The cooperative, based in central Jersey, had around 100 stores ten years ago and in that time has nearly quadrupled their store count. They've established significant presences in New Jersey and Florida -- about 50 stores in each state -- and expanded into Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. But they originated in Brooklyn in 1937, and even close to home they've been hard at work. Here in Flatbush, one of their stores has roughly doubled in size with a major renovation. We previously saw this store under its previous brand, Food Universe (also affiliated with Key Food), in 2020. The supermark