The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: Brockton Public Market Address: 597 Centre St, Brockton, MA Opened:  1950s Closed:  ca. late 1980s Later Tenants:  assorted non-grocery tenants Photographed:  July 6, 2019 In the late 1980s, a new Super Shaw's opened at the Crescent Plaza in eastern Brockton. The chain moved from their 1950s-era location on Centre Street about half a mile north. The original location, here in a strip mall that's now very quiet, opened as a Brockton Public Market, later branded as BPM Grocers and then eventually Shaw's. Part (or maybe all?) of the roughly 20,000 square foot former supermarket later appears to have become a movie theater, which closed by the time I visited the property in 2019. Interesting that the pitched roof is also visible inside, even though there's a drop ceiling. I don't know what this store's layout would've been, but perhaps the produce department was here on the left side. The storefront is clearly an old supermarket. A Do...

Original Grocery Tenant:  Price Chopper Address:  50 Cambridge St, Worcester, MA Opened:  2003 Closed:  January 2025 Later Tenants:  vacant Photographed:  March 26, 2025 It's time to return to the Main & Cambridge Price Chopper, which closed at the end of January . The massive, 70,000 square foot store was built from the ground up in 2003, replacing an older store just north. The space remains vacant with several Price Chopper remnants around the property, although the signage has all been removed from the building itself. But Price Chopper banners remain in the parking lot, as do the cart corrals. Price Chopper said at the time of closure that they were looking for someone to sublet from them for the last several years on their lease -- nobody seems interested yet, although as I no longer live in Worcester I don't have my ear to the ground the way I used to -- and, as a result, it seems like everything has been left completely as-is. The Price Chopper...

Market 22 Opening: TBA Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  assorted non-grocery tenants Cooperative:  none Location:  17 Mechanic St, Worcester, MA Photographed:  March 28, 2025 Downtown Worcester will soon be getting its first new grocery store in years. That'll happen when Market 22 opens in @ The Common -- formerly the Midtown Mall -- between Front and Mechanic Streets in Worcester. The store was first announced earlier this spring, and is expected to open in the coming weeks but hasn't announced a formal opening date yet. I visited in late March to check on the progress. Read more about the background here . The store is set up to open into an indoor mall, which has several other storefronts inside also. It faces Front Street with lots of big windows, meaning it'll be very visible from the common. It's very small -- my best estimate is just a couple thousand square feet at most -- and looks like it'll be closer to a bodega or large corner grocer than a full ...

ALDI Opening: TBA Owner:  ALDI Sud Previous Tenants:  Amazon Fresh (planned, never opened) Cooperative:  none Location:  430 New Dorp Ln, Staten Island, NY Photographed:  April 14, 2025 This post is just a quick lookk at an ALDI coming soon to Staten Island. I had previously been to this spot when it was slated to become an Amazon Fresh (with its signature facade), but this store and another in-progress Amazon Fresh in Connecticut went to ALDI. ALDI won't be taking the whole space, as a thrift store is moving into the other side. You can see ALDI has also kept a bit of the Amazon Fresh facade, but made it their own (and removed the recognizable green stripes, opting instead for gray and black). An opening date hasn't yet been announced for this store. It'll be the second ALDI on Staten Island, joining one about three miles west that opened in September . Check out this weekend's other posts here! Another Rite Aid becomes a supermarket, just outside of Newark ...

Fine Fare Supermarkets Opened: December 2024 Owner:  Bejad Musleh Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  1689 Richmond Rd, Staten Island, NY Photographed:  April 14, 2025 Two small new supermarkets opened on Staten Island last December -- a CTown on Castleton Avenue on the north shore, occupying a building previously housing a sign shop, and a Fine Fare in Dongan Hills in a new-build building. This Fine Fare development, which includes the 9000 square foot supermarket and a Starbucks across the parking lot, started as far back as 2017. The structure was constructed by 2021, but it wasn't fully finished and outfitted as a supermarket until late 2024. As you can see in a street view , the property backs up to a hillside, with a retaining wall running behind the supermarket (and limiting its size). The parking lot is on the side, but the store is oriented to face the street. Produce lines the first aisle on the left side of the stor...