Food Bazaar Supermarket
Meanwhile, over in Brooklyn, Food Bazaar is also working hard on another acquired Stop & Shop. See my last post here.
The far-right side of the store has been tarped off, the areas previously housing the soda and beer departments. Soda and beer have been moved to the front-left corner of the store, and it's hard to tell exactly what's going to come here. It's clear that there's some serious construction work going on, though.
These first few pictures are from late September, and then we return with some early October photos in a bit.
Here's a look behind the tarp before they had sealed off the whole area...
On the other side of the store, new dairy/cold cuts and frozen cases have gone in, and were in the process of being stocked when I visited.
Here's a look inside the store when it was still a Stop & Shop.
The frozen foods cases were all installed when I visited but still were in the process of being fully stocked.
And the removal of cases and shelving over by the produce department in the middle of the store gives us a look at the back of these fixtures. My guess is that the produce department will be expanded, probably into part of the space on the right side of the store, but it's hard to tell exactly what the plan will be right now.
It's at the front of the last aisle, along with a few short aisles of soda and snacks that had previously been on the right side of the store.
And a look across the front-end from the new short aisles in the front corner...
Over at the Linden Boulevard store, the Livfarm is up and running, growing assorted green vegetables and herbs right inside the supermarket. In fact, the Livfarm is the first thing you see upon entering the store. I mentioned on an older Hempstead post that the Livfarm greens have rolled out to all the Food Bazaar stores.
This isn't the first supermarket I've seen that has a hydroponic farm inside, but it's a fun and innovative feature nonetheless.
And look at that! You've got your lettuce grown right inside the store, then transported all of ten yards away to the shelf to be sold. Pretty cool!
Opened: September 2024
With all the Massachusetts and Connecticut coverage this weekend, we can't forget to take a look at some of the New York-area stores, too! Let's check in on the renovation at the Hempstead Food Bazaar, which is moving along well but still has some key work ongoing.
Right away, we can tell Food Bazaar has made their mark on this store, with a completely transformed grand aisle. See the Stop & Shop here.
The produce department has been expanded into the front half of the first few grocery aisles, with the meat department moving into the back half. The rest of the grand aisle is fairly similar, although it looks like deli-bakery is being condensed a bit to accommodate a larger seafood department.
Food Bazaar has replaced the majority of the fixtures in the store, but they haven't (yet?) replaced the grocery shelving.
Here in the produce department, everything is new. This bump-out into what had been the first few grocery aisles has brought a lot more space, and a lot more selection, in produce.
Food Bazaar has finished up building a new cheese island in the same spot where Stop & Shop's older cheese island had been, and while it has a slightly smaller footprint it still has a lot to offer because all of the shelving is multi-tiered while Stop & Shop's case was single-tiered.
On the front of the island is also a glass display case where the wheels of cheese, cut in-store, are displayed. This is a big step up for Food Bazaar, and also a big step up from what this store previously had.
Looking back up towards the front of the grand aisle...
In the back of the grand aisle, we can see where seafood will go, as deli prepares to move forward closer to bakery. A sign for the cheese counter is also temporarily stored here and will probably eventually hang above the island, and the soon-to-be-installed seafood counter is just behind it.
I'm not sure exactly what will happen with the current seafood department, which is between deli and the meat counter. This digital display sign is new, of course.
In an effort to expand Stop & Shop's seafood counter, Food Bazaar had added this row of additional fish on ice in front of the previous service counter.
And the new service meat counter is fully up and running. Stop & Shop didn't have a service butcher counter here.
A look at the new packaged meat department, located in the back half of what used to be the first few grocery aisles.
New fixtures are in across the back wall, too, with freezers and refrigerators for packaged meat and cold cuts. Dairy begins towards the right side of the store.
New dairy and frozen signage is in here, although the old Stop & Shop signage remains here too (you can see just the corner of it in the top-right of the below picture).
These freezer cases weren't replaced.
Dairy then continues down the last aisle of the store on the right side. Food Bazaar opened up the last few aisles that Stop & Shop had closed off in 2020, meaning that the removal of the first few aisles for the meat and produce departments didn't actually sacrifice any grocery aisles.
A pretty funny decor misstep here involves putting the logo for Chickwings, a brand of chicken wings, over the yogurt section. I'm guessing chicken wings won't wind up here at the end of the remodel, so why put the sign here?
And Stop & Shop's original bakery is still closed off and under construction for something else to come. As I've mentioned, I suspect it might be a food court in the future.
You can see the Frozen & Dairy sign left over from Stop & Shop here, and they might not even bother to remove it because it matches well enough.
A look across the front-end, with more space under construction on the front wall...
Owner: Spencer An
Previous Tenants: Melmarkets Foodtown > Stop & Shop (2001-2024)
Cooperative: none
Location: 132 S Fulton Ave, Hempstead, NY
Photographed: October 3, 2025
Food Bazaar Supermarket
Opened: September 2024
Owner: Spencer An
Previous Tenants: Pathmark (1970-2015) > Stop & Shop (2015-2024)
Cooperative: none
Location: 2965 Cropsey Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: September 23, 2025 and October 3, 2025
Returning for some pictures from earlier this month, when people were working hard behind the tarp but I couldn't get a glimpse of what they were up to.
This area had previously been beer and frozen seafood, and beer has been moved over to the dairy department now.
Food Bazaar Supermarket
Opened: May 2025
Owner: Spencer An
Previous Tenants: Linden Multiplex Cinemas
Cooperative: none
Location: 2784 Linden Blvd, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: September 23, 2025
There's a lot to see this weekend, so check it all out here!
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