The Market Report

ALDI Opened: 2010 Owner:  ALDI Sud Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  225 E Main St, Milford, MA Photographed:  August 24, 2025 Visit number 3 of five here in Milford is the ALDI, to the northeast of downtown. This approximately 18,000 square foot store was built in 2010 on the site of a former car dealership, and is situated right between a Stop & Shop to the east and a Big Y to the west that we'll be seeing tomorrow. It's been nicely renovated with the latest ALDI decor, to the point that it almost feels like a much newer store than it is -- except for the flooring, which is the dead giveaway it originally had this decor package . Most ALDIs are exactly the same, so the layout here is very straightforward: produce and baked goods in the first aisle, dairy and cold cuts on the back wall, meat and frozen in the last aisle. This one seemed a bit cleaner and better organized than many ALDIs I go to. That might be because of just how many o...

Stop & Shop Opened: November 2017 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Kmart Cooperative:  none Location:  126 Medway Rd, Milford, MA Photographed:  August 24, 2025 The Market Report arrives at the largest supermarket in Milford! This 70,000 square foot Stop & Shop opened in 2017, occupying most of an extensively-renovated former Kmart. Stop & Shop moved from a slightly smaller, 80s-era store (the octagonal kind ) about 2/3 of a mile northwest. Interestingly enough, the Home Goods and TJ Maxx that were previously next to the old Stop & Shop moved with Stop & Shop and now occupy the remainder of the former Kmart space. The former Stop & Shop has been remodeled but doesn't appear to have a new tenant yet. The new store is spacious -- it feels absolutely huge -- and still spots the wood-grain decor it had when it opened. It still feels like a very new store, although it's not operating at the full capacity it was when it opened. More ...

LIDL Opened: December 10, 2025 Owner:  Schwarz Group Previous Tenants:  none; Key Food previously on property Cooperative:  none Location:  120 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  December 12, 2025 Welcome to the newest LIDL! This store opened last week in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, in a new-build building on a property previously occupied by a large, suburban-style Key Food. The Key Food was around 35,000 square feet with a ground-level parking lot. Of course, in the urban and rapidly growing Park Slope area, that wasn't long for this world, so the LIDL is both smaller (25,000 square feet) and lacking the surface parking lot. There does appear to be a garage, but I'm not sure whether it's free parking for LIDL or not. This store is also under a mile from the relatively new Downtown Brooklyn LIDL , and is also not far from Brooklyn's newest ALDI . At the other end of Park Slope is the new K-Slope Marketplace . To maximize retail space in the new buil...