The Market Report

CTown Supermarkets Owner:  Edwin Sanchez Opened:  2013 Previous Tenants:  Compare Foods Supermarket (2010-2011) Cooperative:  Krasdale Location: 7 Washington St, Norwalk, CT Photographed:  May 2019 This CTown opened in 2013 replacing a short-lived Compare Foods in central SoNo. The storefront faces a huge municipal parking lot , while the back actually faces Washington St. The side that faces the street has been nicely designed. A pleasant (and gentrifying) business district lines the other side of the municipal lot just around the corner on Main St. Like the downtown Key Food, this store is absolutely packed with merchandise. The produce department takes up the front corner, with dairy in the first aisle. Service deli, bakery, and butcher line the back wall with frozen and meat in the last aisle. While the store was a little disorganized, there was a lot of stocking going on. All signs point to this store doing a big business. ...

Key Food Supermarkets Owner:  Anthony Peña Opened:  2016 Previous Tenants:  City Supermarkets (2007-2016) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  717 West Ave, Norwalk, CT Photographed:  May 2019 We arrive in downtown Norwalk for a store tour at our second CityMarket Key Food (this one is actually co-branded with the two names, while Bridgeport only has that on the monument sign). The owners also briefly operated a store just over the border in Port Chester, NY . This store's central downtown location is likely quite advantageous to it. I don't know much history of this approximately 9,000 square foot supermarket, but the facade looks vaguely like a drugstore facade. We enter to find a large produce department, with meat running along the first aisle. Beyond that I honestly do not remember the layout, although I believe dairy is in the last aisle with butcher and deli on the back wall. As we'll see, this store seems to do big busi...