The Market Report

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...

Key Food Supermarkets Owner:  Anthony Peña Opened:  2016 Previous Tenants:  Walgreens (??-mid 2000s) > Fine Fare (mid 2000s-2011) > City Supermarkets (2011-2016) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  2251 Main St, Bridgeport, CT Photographed:  May 2019 This 12,000 square foot store is located in the less urban Brooklawn neighborhood of Bridgeport. Formerly a Walgreens, this store has been several different supermarket banners all under the same owner, as far as I can tell. A look at the Key Food from across the street in the parking lot of the International Farmers Market. That's an independent Krasdale market diagonally across the street, which we'll be taking a look inside tomorrow on The Independent Edition ! Inside, the store feels very small but contains no remnants of the Walgreens that previously occupied this space. Walgreens moved to a new-build store about three blocks south on Main St. Deli and hot food l...