The Market Report

Shop Fresh Food Marketplace Opened: July 2025 Owner: unknown Previous Tenants:  Pioneer Supermarkets (1985-2012) > Met Fresh (2012-2016) > Pioneer Fresh (2016-2025) Cooperative: Associated Supermarket Group Location: 1150 Woodycrest Ave, Highbridge, Bronx, NY Photographed: August 6, 2025 Time for another before-and-after! (Did you see my post at 151 E Tremont ?) This one is in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, where we most recently saw the opening of the Ogden Market Center in a former Rite Aid just three blocks from this store. This is an old-school store that's recently gotten a major upgrade. And another ASG store, which as I mentioned is on a roll lately. It's around 9500 square feet, and although I'm not completely certain of the building's history, it looks like the first supermarket on this site was a Pioneer opening in 1985. It became a Met Fresh around 2012, returning to Pioneer in 2016 or 2017. Not sure how many times it changed ownersh...

Ogden Market Center Opened:  March 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Rite Aid Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  1091 Ogden Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed:  April 7, 2025 As Rite Aid (and other drugstore chains) shrink, there's no doubt that there's a strong trend of supermarkets moving into those spaces. I mean, today alone I've posted three stores that used to be Rite Aids -- this one, a City Fresh Market in Ridgewood, Queens , and a Pioneer in Belmont . These spots make for perfect supermarkets, not least because some of them actually were originally supermarkets. I don't know if that was the case here at the Ogden Market Center, a roughly 10,000 square foot, brand new supermarket. The former Rite Aid has been painted a very, um, attention-grabbing color scheme on the outside, which is kind of funny because the inside is all beige. The store opened in mid-March, so it's still quite new. Let's check it out! You enter on the right side of t...