Key Food Supermarkets
Opened: March 2025
Time to return to Norwood, where a Key Food recently moved next door. I visited the store last during its soft opening phase, and now, it's pretty much complete. As you can see above, signage has been installed on the outside, and the beer cooler has been stocked inside.
It doesn't look like this store will be getting any decor or department signage inside, which is a shame. It's pleasant but extremely bland inside.
But the aisle markers have been replaced in most of the aisles, removing the old ones brought over from the previous store and replacing them with these new, much sleeker ones.
As a commenter mentioned on the previous post, the store this one replaced was a Bonavita Pioneer supermarket, then the Bonavita operation joined Key Food and it became a Key Food. In 1997, Bonavita (which still owns several Key Food stores in the Bronx) sold it to the current owner, Jaime Luna.
As another commenter pointed out, it may have just been easier to start fresh than extensively renovate the existing store (if the renovations required were things like replacing refrigeration or lighting and flooring, not cosmetic things).
Key Food is also working on replacing the store at 786 Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn with a new one at 780 Flatbush, next door, in what appears to be the same type of move as this.
Opened: March 2025
Owner: Jaime Luna
Previous Tenants: assorted non-grocery tenants
Cooperative: Key Food Stores
Location: 3509 Jerome Ave, Norwood, Bronx, NY
Photographed: August 6, 2025
Good to see an all-new store -- but I just wish it were a little more exciting! Part of the impetus for this store's move might be that Extra Jumbo, an Associated-affiliated chain, has opened just a couple blocks north in a brand-new store previously occupied by Family Dollar. Tomorrow we'll have a quick look, and more on that soon. In the meantime...
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