The Market Report

H Mart Opened: May 31, 2024 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Rite Aid Cooperative:  none Location:  210 Amsterdam Ave, Upper West Side, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  June 9, 2024 Please pardon the Massachusetts interruption for today's selection of newsworthy posts! As I have mentioned, a lot is happening in the supermarket world right about now, so you can expect to continue seeing a lot of updates and special reports as I am able to get out and see the new stores. This H Mart, the fourth in Manhattan and the twelfth in New York City overall, opened at the very end of May in a tiny former Rite Aid space. Produce is in the front right corner, with dairy and packaged prepared foods (not yet up and running at the time of my visit) in the rest of the first aisle. Meats line the back wall, with frozen on the left side of the store. The grocery aisles are split in half front-to-back. In a few parts of the country, H Mart doesn't actually own and operate all their s...

Key Food Supermarkets Owner: unknown Opened:  October 12, 2023 Previous Tenants:  Duane Reade Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  2401 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  June 9, 2023 and December 1, 2023 Welcome to the Upper West Side of Manhattan! I have been spending a lot of time in New York City lately so we're going to see quite a few stores in the city that are new or renovated over the next few days. I have a backlog of a few updates and special reports to post, starting with this Key Food at Broadway and 88th St on the Upper West Side. (For those not from the area, this is the same Broadway as the Broadway theaters and Times Square -- which is at Broadway and 42nd St, so about 45 blocks south of here, or two and a quarter miles for non-city people.) This was a Duane Reade drugstore, a New York City chain now owned by Walgreens, until around 2020 when the store closed. It later became a distribution center for a fast grocery del...