The Market Report

Big Y Opened: October 24, 2024 Owner:  D'Amour family Previous Tenants:  Barnes & Noble > Amazon Fresh (planned, never opened) Cooperative:  none Location:  1076 Post Rd E, Westport, CT Photographed:  October 31, 2024 If this is the first post of the weekend that you're seeing, welcome and get ready because we have a really great collection of stores today. If it's the last -- because I'm aware that the first store I post becomes the last to appear chronologically on the home page -- I hope you had fun looking at the other stores and I'll see ya tomorrow. Either way, glad you're here and let's check out a spectacular new Big Y! Here in Westport, CT, a former Barnes & Noble was being prepared for Amazon Fresh to move in. But when they paused their new store development in 2023, they also got rid of a few stores still in development but not yet opened. Two appear to have gone to ALDI, one in Plainville, CT and one on Staten Island . Three went to ...

Balducci's Food Lover's Market Opened:  unknown Location:  1385 Post Rd E, Westport, CT Photographed:  May 2019 I must confess, before we tour this 12,000 square foot gourmet market in the very affluent suburb of Westport, that I do not remember the layout here at all. You see, this was one of about 26 stores I visited this day, but most importantly when I arrived here, I had one thing on my mind. I made a beeline for the restroom. Having taken care of what I needed to, I then completed my store tour. I remember nothing other than the bathroom. (A side note, these pictures were taken prior to the ACME acquisition of Kings and Balducci's.) For some context, we've been to a Balducci's before and we've also been to Westport before. This store is set up with the front perpendicular to the street, which is just to the right above. Like Scarsdale, you enter to a large grand aisle that takes up about half of the store, here the right half. Produce,...

For a change of scenery around here, we're moving from a small town in sparsely-populated northwestern Connecticut to a suburb between Norwalk and Bridgeport. Today we're taking a quick look at a former Grand Union-turned-Shaw's that has since become a Fresh Market, one of my least favorite chains. That said, this picture did come out pretty nice, especially for a drive-by photo on an iPhone from 2014 I think? This store is located at 605 Post Rd E, and you can check out an interior photo from Google Maps. Photographed November 2016