The Market Report

Gala Foods Supermarket Opened: September 9, 2025 Owner:  Edwin Gutierrez Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1759 Middle Country Rd, Centereach, NY Photographed:  October 3, 2025 Greetings from Long Island, where I recently spent a day. Living in New Jersey, it's not exactly easy to get across to Long Island -- even parts of Queens can be upwards of three hours for a distance that's barely 30 miles -- so I don't often post stores from the eastern suburbs of New York City. But here we are in Centereach, a hamlet about 50 miles east of midtown Manhattan, where the Aurora Grocery Group has just opened its latest store. At 21,000 square feet, it's not a large supermarket, but it's spacious and open. It's a new-build store, part of a newly constructed strip mall on Middle Country Road, which is a main thoroughfare through this area. This is actually the only supermarket within Centereach, but that doesn't meat we're far from othe...

 A lot has been happening in the last few weeks, so here's a roundup of all the local supermarket news of the northeast. It's January, so unfortunately that means a lot of closures (openings typically happen in the spring and summer, and closures typically happen in the winter). But there's some other things going on, too. You can also follow me at news.marketreportblog.com for all the updates! This Weekend's Posts City Supermarket nears completion of its remodel in Kenilworth The small but mighty store in downtown Kenilworth is wrapping up its remodel after being acquired by local chain City Supermarket last summer. Read more here ! Price Chopper prepares to close a Worcester store The writing has been on the wall for years, but the time is here: Price Chopper will be closing their store in Main South Worcester. Read all about it here ! Shaw's at Webster Square is reset, but not (yet?) remodeled And just a couple blocks away, Shaw's has reset their southern Wo...

Gala Foods Supermarket Opened: 2018 Owner:  Aurora Grocery Group Previous Tenants:  department store > Santiago's Supermarket > Compare Foods Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  664 Main St, Worcester, MA Photographed:  January 13, 2025 It's time for a revisit to the Gala Foods in downtown Worcester! I posted a few pictures of the outside last fall, but now let's take a look inside the roughly 30,000 square foot supermarket -- the only one in downtown Worcester, in fact. Gala Foods has renovated the store, but the bones are similar. Still, it feels much brighter and more open, as a few things have been shifted around and lighting and flooring has been changed throughout. Here at the deli/bakery area near the front entrance, a fresh coat of paint is looking good along with new fixtures and a new juice and smoothie bar. New refrigerators and shelving in front of the service counters display a much wider selection of baked goods. Sorry for the terrible...

Gala Foods Supermarket Opened: 2018 Owner:  Aurora Grocery Group Previous Tenants:  department store > Santiago's Supermarket > Compare Foods Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  664 Main St, Downtown, Worcester, MA Photographed:  October 9, 2018; November 18, 2018; April 14, 2019; and October 18, 2020 We're coming back to Worcester's Gala Foods (previously Compare Foods ) in downtown Worcester to see the final stages of the conversion fully finished. Long ago, of course -- Aurora Grocery Group converted their New York and New England Compare Foods stores to Gala Foods back in 2018, when they joined Key Food but couldn't keep their name . (I find it absolutely hilarious that Gala Foods' new slogan is "Beyond Comparison," a joke not that many people will get.) The 27,000 square foot building was originally a department store, which in 1965 was The Mart . I believe it became Santiago's Market around 2000 (incidentally, my former boss's fa...