The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: 1990s Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  855 Bridgeport Ave, Milford, CT Photographed:  August 18, 2024 Closing Date: October 31, 2024 Milford is one of three closing Stop & Shop stores we're seeing in Connecticut today, and all are set to close on the 31st of October (see Stamford and Ansonia ). The Bridgeport Ave. Stop & Shop in Milford, CT opened in the 1990s -- specifically between 1994 and 2001 -- and takes up about 65,000 square feet. It was renovated around 2012. Big Y has become a very strong competitor, and it's a tightly-run, family-owned chain of around 85 stores (and counting). They've long been strong in western Massachusetts, but their expansion into Connecticut, which keeps pushing farther and farther south, seems to have seriously threatened Stop & Shop. This store is just down the street from a new-build Big Y that opened in late 2019, and it's a nice one (though mo...

ShopRite of Milford Owner:  Harry Garafalo Opened:  2016 Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  935 Boston Post Rd, Milford, CT Photographed:  November 2018 We've moved from the Hartford area  to the southern coastline of Connecticut, where we're starting here in Milford. The town of Milford is about halfway between Bridgeport (to the west) and New Haven (to the east). This 73,000 square foot ShopRite opened as a new-build store in 2016 replacing a much smaller, 56,000 square foot  ShopRite nearby a matter of blocks away. Warning: I went way overboard on the pictures in this store. This is quite a substantial tour. This store model has roughly been used by other ShopRite owners, originating with Saker World Class ShopRites in southern New Jersey, and adapted by Garafalo here in Milford and Cromwell , along with Mannix in Staten Island . This Milford store is emblematic of an interesting approach to ShopRites in Connecti...