The Market Report

Market 32 Opened: October 2025 Owner:  Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants:  McCracken Markets > Iandoli Super Markets > Price Chopper (ca. late 1980s-2025) Cooperative:  none Location:  221-223 Park Ave, Worcester, MA Photographed:  October 31, 2025 Welcome back to Worcester, where one of the remaining Price Chopper stores is in the process of becoming a Market 32! One city Price Chopper became a Market 32 back in 2018, and another closed early this year. This store is on the small side for a Price Chopper -- only around 36,000 square feet. You can see the store prior to its renovation here . The outside has gotten a new paint job and some new signage, but the work is more extensive inside. And it's definitely necessary -- this store had become rather rundown in recent years. At this point, it doesn't look like the layout will change at all, but many of the fixtures are being replaced. Flooring is scraped down to concrete on the left side of the store, ...

Shop Fair Supermarkets Opened: October 2025 Owner:  Anibal Rodriguez Previous Tenants:  Food City (open in 1978) > Rite Aid Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  1518 Westchester Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed:  October 29, 2025 Add it to the list: here's yet another New York City supermarket that has set up shop in a former drugstore! This former Rite Aid in the Soundview section of the Bronx is now the latest Shop Fair, just 9500 square feet. And like many of these other drugstores, this store was originally a supermarket. I don't have a full picture of its history, but one article I could find confirmed that it was a Food City in 1978. Rite Aid closed in 2023 or early 2024. This new Shop Fair has a lot in common with the store at 1510 St Nicholas Ave over in Manhattan, also a former Rite Aid that's become a Shop Fair owned by Anibal Rodriguez. And like that one, this store is small enough that they've made liberal use of the sidewalk space in front ...

Food Universe Marketplace Opened: October 9, 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  none; Waterbury Farms/Key Food Marketplace planned but never opened Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  96 Grove St, Waterbury, CT Photographed:  October 30, 2025 This recently-opened Food Universe in Waterbury has an interesting history. Even though it's a new-build store, it wasn't built for Food Universe. Instead, it was originally contructed by the Hassen family starting in 2016 and first slated to be Waterbury Farms. Later, signage went up advertising a Key Food Marketplace around the same time the Hassens bought the Town Plot IGA and converted it to a Key Food Marketplace across town. That store then briefly became Banana Fresh Market and is now a Key Food again but under new ownership. Similarly, a different Key Food owner has taken over this Grove Street store and after finishing the construction that was started but never completed, has opened this one as a Food...