The Market Report

Today we have a look inside at one of the two Lenox Hill D'Agostinos, as we've seen the Lenox Hill North location here . Our pictures of this store come to The Market Report courtesy of contributor Laura E.! It looks like this store is pretty newly renovated, and it looks great. Here's what older D'Agostinos look like. Kind of hard to determine a layout from these pictures, but it's looking like most of the store's floor space is taken up by the perishable departments, with maybe five aisles. Looks like dairy is on the back wall, with frozen in the last aisle. And a nicely updated front end! This store is located at 966 1st Ave, and you can see the exterior here . Photographed July 2019

Returning to, yes, the same building as yesterday's tour for a look inside the convenience store at the other end of the building. I'm assuming Whole Foods management made the decision that a separate Whole Body (health and beauty) store didn't make sense, so those products were consolidated into the main supermarket with this second storefront, which does not connect to the main supermarket, becoming a convenience store. Interestingly enough, it doubles up a lot of selection that the supermarket has but probably offers the basics for a shorter checkout time and less crowded facility. In addition to the produce, grab-and-go meals and snacks, and beverages, there's a coffee and juice counter at the back of the store. There's no shortage of coffee shops in Manhattan, but it's probably a convenient spot to get a few items at once. There's no seating area here or in the main supermarket, however. The store is at the corner of 7th Avenue and 25th ...

Today's store tour is about one block west of the Fairway and Sunac we saw at 6th Ave and 25th St. Today we're at 7th between 24th and 25th. This Whole Foods has been here for a while, but has been newly remodeled. The former Whole Body space, which sells health and beauty items, used to be next door but has been converted to a convenience store with health and beauty being incorporated into the main supermarket. We're going to see the convenience store tomorrow. You enter with produce and seafood in the first room. The wall to the right above is the front wall of the store, with checkouts running along the side wall, on 24th Street. Produce, seafood, and floral are in the first room, with meat and bulk foods lining an extremely cramped walkway to the back room, which contains grocery aisles, dairy, frozen, and deli/bakery. Checkouts run along the side in a single-line format. The seafood counter is very nice, and wraps around to a butcher counter on the side...

We're returning to the Fairway Market in Chelsea once again (see previous coverage here ) for some better exterior pictures and one other shot. This is one of the locations that has been purchased in Fairway's bankruptcy auction by Springfield, NJ-based ShopRite owner Village Super Market. And while I hope that Village improves Fairway (including by making them more like their ShopRite locations), there is one thing I hope they don't change... ...those famous New York bagels! Man, are they good. This location is at 766 6th Ave, Manhattan, NY. Photographed May 2019

Our next group of stores will take us the next week or so and will have us returning to Manhattan! I should note that we've already seen many stores in Manhattan, and the other thing that people who are familiar with New York City will notice: my "southern Manhattan" is more accurately the southern half, i.e. everything south of Harlem. We'll more specifically be covering stores in the Financial District, Chelsea , Lenox Hill , and the Upper West Side. We start tomorrow on The Independent Edition !