The Market Report

Price Rite Marketplace Opened: by 2008 Previous Tenants:  A&P (open by 1954, closed after 1985) Location:  164 Boston Ave, Bridgeport, CT Photographed:  July 9, 2023 Today's Bridgeport stop is a roughly 44,000 square foot Price Rite, one of two here in Bridgeport. The other is north of here next to Bridgeport's sole remaining Stop & Shop . ( One recently closed to make way for Food Bazaar, another closed back in 2012 and remains vacant .) This store was built with the rest of the strip mall in the early 1950s as an A&P, which remained until at least 1985 and was a WEO (Warehouse Economy Outlet, owned by A&P) for some of that time. I'm not sure what happened between 1985 and whenever Price Rite opened, which was before 2008, although it's likely there was at least one other tenant in there. That's all for Bridgeport this time around, but now we're going to head around 16 miles north to start a loop of mostly independent stores in and around Lit...

Gala Foods Supermarket Owner:  Omar Jorge Peña Opened:  2018 Previous Tenants:  Compare Foods Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1050 E Main St, Bridgeport, CT Photographed:  May 2019 We've previously toured the Gala Foods in Worcester , and we're now here in the East End of Bridgeport to tour one of two in Bridgeport. The other, which I have not been to, is in the West End and has recently gotten a nice exterior renovation . This one looks much more like Worcester, although it has not been painted beige. At 19,000 square feet, it's a substantial center-city store but not enormous. You enter on the right side of the store with produce in the first aisle, meats on the back wall, and service butcher and deli in the last aisle. My photos are a little limited based simply on how busy the store was. Interesting that frozen foods actually line the first aisle. I'm going to say the conversion to Gala Foods was a little more successfu...