The Market Report

Returning to Port Chester for today's Look Inside. Just outside of downtown (which includes an enormous shopping mall with a Stop & Shop, which I have not visited) is this small store which opened around 2015 in a previously vacant building that probably started life as an industrial space. It operated briefly as a Met Foodmarkets before converting to Compare Foods. The store is very nice inside, if a little dim, but that's mostly a symptom of the old building it's in. There's a large hot food bar, along with a deli and a butcher. The outside really looks great! The most interesting aspect of the interior, though, is that they are using old Pathmark aisle markers throughout... The part of the aisle marker that would have read "save" is now covered with a Compare Foods logo. Honestly, I think these aisle markers look better with Compare Foods than with the old Pathmark branding! Interestingly, although there was a Pathmark in Port Chester, the K...

For today's Snapshot we're taking a look at Port Chester, NY's Stop 1 Food Market. This corner grocery store is more of a bodega than a supermarket, but I liked the old building it's in and the seemingly hand-painted sign. Stop 1 may be affiliated with Krasdale Foods.

Welcome to Port Chester, NY!  For anyone not familiar with this city, it's actually pronounced PORT chester, not port CHESter as you might think (same inflection as Westchester). Before we tour this store - I drove by this store (on the highway) earlier today, and it looked like it might be closed, and I thought the sign was missing from the street. I could be wrong, though. These Key Food stores seem to be dropping like flies - Superfresh Garwood is closed for renovations (supposedly), and I heard Key Food in Peekskill, NY is closing this week. It's an old A&P Sav-A-Center. Does anyone know if this store is still open? Now on to the Key Food of Port Chester. It was built in 1982 as a Pathmark. Thanks to the real estate company's outdated website , we can learn that it comes in at just under 60,000 square feet and is situated in a small strip mall on four acres. Apparently this store was run by an outfit called the St. Anthony Supermarket Corp., a Supermarkets ...