The Market Report

Metro Acres Market Opened:  early July 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Crest > Big V > Drug Palace > Rite Aid > Walgreens Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  3085 E Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed:  July 18, 2025 I've returned to the new Metro Acres Market in Schuylerville, the Bronx to visit the store after its opening! My unfortunately-timed last visit was just days before it actually opened. The store is only 8300 square feet, so it's pretty small, and although it was most recently a Rite Aid-turned-Walgreens, it started out as a Crest supermarket, later a Big V. As I mentioned on that post, the store was apparently originally slated to be a Fine Fare, but it switched to Metro Acres prior to opening. And as I mentioned, there seems to be not much difference between those brands. You enter on the left side of the storefront to the grand aisle, with deli/bakery on the left side and produce on the right side. Meat and ref...

Metro Acres Market Opened: July 2025 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Crest > Big V > Drug Palace > Rite Aid > Walgreens Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  3085 E Tremont Ave, Bronx, NY Photographed:  June 30, 2025 A disclaimer: this post is shorter than I'd want it to be. Last weekend, Metro Acres Market opened up here in the Schuylerville neighborhood in the eastern Bronx, but unfortunately I haven't been here since the store actually opened. I visited shortly before it opened, however, and so we'll see the store in the final days of its construction before it opened. This 8300 square foot building was almost certainly built as a supermarket, operating as a Crest Supermarket by the late 1960s and by the 1970s it was Big V (not sure if it was related to the ShopRite-affiliated chain in the Hudson Valley called Big V, but I assume not). By 1985, it had become a drugstore called Drug Palace. It was later a Rite Aid and then a Walgreens. ...