Original Grocery Tenant: Grand Union Address: 355 N Main St, Barre, VT Opened: 1974 Closed: ca. 1990s Later Tenants: assorted non-grocery tenants Photographed: August 13, 2025 It's not hard to tell from a glance that this building in downtown Barre was originally a supermarket. And given that we're here in Vermont, it's easy to guess who the original tenant was -- Grand Union, which has left plenty of similar buildings across the state. It's around 28,000 square feet, and has been subdivided between a shoe store and a Walgreens. Grand Union opened here in 1974, though this store replaced an older location in town that had been in business since at least the 1940s. I haven't been able to pin down exactly where that old store was. And it looks like this store didn't actually make it to Grand Union's 2001 bankruptcy, instead closing around the 1990s. I'm not sure if there was a very short-lived replacement store in the area, which is possible. At the...
DeCicco & Sons Opened: September 9, 2026 Owner: Chris, John, & Joe DeCicco Previous Tenants: Grand Union > Stop & Shop (2001-2023) Cooperative: none Location: 21 Glen Ridge Rd, Greenwich, CT Photographed: September 25, 2026 It's time to visit another new DeCicco & Sons location! Most recently, I wrote (overly dramatically, of course, as is my tendency) about the Sleepy Hollow location in New York's Westchester County, a truly spectacular supermarket. That store proves they can produce an incredible, first-rate supermarket when they're building a store from the ground up. What about when they're revitalizing a closed chain supermarket? Well, this new store just across the border in Greenwich, Connecticut proves they can do that just as well. I posted about this store back when it was a Stop & Shop a couple years ago, or I suppose more accurately I posted about it shortly after it closed. After being vacant for a few years, this aging Grand U...