The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: 2010 Previous Tenants:  Shaw's (2003-2010) Location:  125 CT-39, New Fairfield, CT Photographed:  July 9, 2021 On Friday we saw the New Fairfield Food Center , a small independent supermarket just diagonally across the street from this Stop & Shop. Although the Food Center has been there since 1969, this store was constructed in 2003 by Shaw's, which ran the store until 2010 when it was sold to Stop & Shop. As we'll see, there's still a fair amount of Shaw's left around the store, even though Stop & Shop has renovated it -- minimally. We have a very standard Shaw's layout, in which we enter the 60,000 square foot store in the front left corner to produce and then prepared foods and deli in the back left corner of the store. Service seafood is at the back of the grand aisle, with meat on the rest of the back wall. The first aisle has a natural foods department. Frozen and dairy are on the right side of the store, with bakery a...

New Fairfield Food Center Owner: Johnny Petrone Opened:  1969 Cooperative:  none Location:  1 Brush Hill Rd, New Fairfield, CT Photographed:  July 9, 2021 There aren't too many truly independent supermarkets out there, but this one in New Fairfield, CT has been rolling along since 1969. The small but mighty store of just 9500 square feet is not a member of a cooperative but is supplied by C&S Wholesale Grocers of Keene, NH, and uses Best Yet storebrand items. We enter the store to find the produce department in the first aisle. Meat is at the back in an expansion out the side (the store is a bit of an L-shape) and deli is on the back wall of the main supermarket. Dairy and frozen are in the last aisle. The store has been around for a long time, but has been very nicely renovated with new fixtures, decor, and flooring. The butcher and deli are clearly a main draw here, and the meat looked beautiful. There's also a full line of groceries, though, even though the o...