The Market Report

Pleasant Market Opened: 1993 under current ownership Owner:  George Makos Previous Tenants:  The Lenox Market Cooperative:  none Location:  2 Richmond Ave, Newton Square, Worcester, MA Photographed:  March 20, 2021 and May 13, 2022 Welcome to one of the most pleasant, green, and residential neighborhoods of Worcester. The Tatnuck/Newton Square area -- basically everything from Worcester State's campus at the south to Assumption University's campus to the north -- is possibly the most suburban part of the city, and one of the higher-income sections. So there are a lot of beautiful old houses, trees, and winding small streets. At the corner of Richmond and Pleasant, the Pleasant Market has been selling groceries to customers for over a century. The earliest listing I have for this grocery store -- which I estimate is around 800 square feet -- is as The Lenox Market in 1916. The building was constructed in 1910, so I'd bet The Lenox Market opened around that time....

Stop & Shop Opened: 2001 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Edwards (ca. late 1990s-2001) Cooperative:  none Location:  1049 US-1, Edison, NJ Photographed:  September 22, 2024 Closing Date: October 31, 2024 It's time for another closing Stop & Shop store -- this one in the southern part of Edison, and you can also see the other store on Inman Avenue here . I first visited this store in 2020 and posted my original tour here , and I recently returned a week ago to check out the closing process. Like the Inman store, this one closes on Halloween. The "please visit our other location" signs are so bizarre. As I mentioned at Inman, that store directs shoppers half an hour south to Keyport, ignoring two stores just 15 minutes away. In this store, customers are advised to visit the store on route 22 in "West Watchung" (it's actually on route 22 west in Watchung , and West Watchung does not exist). Once again, that's a somewhat confusing decision...

Stop & Shop Opened: 2001 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Mayfair Foodtown (1985-1995) > Edwards (1995-2001) Cooperative:  none Location:  1083 Inman Ave, Edison, NJ Photographed:  March 15, 2024 and September 22, 2024 Closing Date: October 31, 2024 In addition to Piscataway , let's take a look at the Inman Avenue Stop & Shop in northern Edison today! This store was built between 1984 and 1985 as a Mayfair Foodtown, becoming an Edwards in the mid-90s, then converted to Stop & Shop with the rest of the Edwards in 2001. The store is on the smaller side for a Stop & Shop, but not tiny; it's around 48,000 square feet. We're going to start with my pictures from my first visit, in March 2024, before the store's closure had been announced (but, from what it looked like, the store was already beginning to wind down). I more recently returned a week ago and, although the store is still more than a month out from closure, is pretty dead alread...