The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: September 20, 2024 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Melmarkets Foodtown > Stop & Shop (2001-2024) Cooperative:  none Location:  132 Fulton Ave, Hempstead, NY Photographed:  July 18, 2025 We're coming up on a year that Food Bazaar has owned the store in downtown Hempstead, and some major work is underway to make it more like a Food Bazaar than a repainted Stop & Shop -- which is how it mostly looked when I last visited. You can see evidence of the renovations almost immediately upon entering the store, with some new fixtures going into the produce department and some ceiling work still ongoing. A refrigerator has been added to the front of the produce department, blocking what used to be a pass-through to the front end . (Check out the Stop & Shop before it closed here .) As you can see, Stop & Shop was in way over their head in this location. It's not that big -- just under 70,000 square feet -- but in a ...

Shop Fair Supermarkets Opened: June 7, 2025 Owner:  Anibal Rodriguez Previous Tenants:  Waldbaum's > V&C Supermarket Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  12 N Franklin St, Hempstead, NY Photographed:  July 18, 2025 By now, if you've been reading The Market Report for long enough, you're familiar with the core New York City-area grocery cooperatives. In no particular order: Krasdale Foods ( CTown and Bravo ), Key Food Stores ( Key Food , Food Universe , SuperFresh , The Food Emporium , Food Dynasty ), America's Food Basket ( AFB and Ideal Food Basket ), Associated Supermarket Group ( Associated , Met , Pioneer , and Compare ), Allegiance Retail Services ( Foodtown , Freshtown , Pathmark ) and Retail Grocers Group ( Fine Fare and Shop Fair ). Most of these groups run relatively small-format, urban supermarkets. Some, like Key Food and Allegiance, have a number of larger, suburban locations ; some (like Krasdale) are staunchly against that. Reta...