The Market Report

NetCost Market Opened: April 14, 2026 Owner:  Sam Shnayder Previous Tenants:  Waldbaum's (open by 1960s) > Key Food (2006-2025) Cooperative:  none Location:  599 Ave Z, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  April 24, 2026 Recently, a former Rite Aid here in Gravesend reopened as an Associated Supermarket . When that store opened, it filled a need as the longtime Key Food just a couple blocks away had recently closed. Now, that closed Key Food has been reborn as a NetCost Market. The New York City native chain of Eastern European supermarkets, which now has locations in four states, has opened its latest location here in the former 15,000 square foot Key Food on Avenue Z. While Key Food had only been here for about 20 years, it's been a supermarket since at least the 1960s, when this space was home to a Waldbaum's. NetCost has some very nice stores . This one doesn't seem to have changed all that much from its Key Food days, both in terms of the setup (it was only clos...

NetCost Market Owner: Sam Shnayder Opened:  2016 Previous Tenants: Grand Union > Norkus Foodtown > Stop & Shop Cooperative:  Krasdale-supplied Location:  700 Tennent Rd, Manalapan, NJ Photographed:  February 2021 It's time for our very first-ever NetCost Market! Manalapan is one of the 12 locations of the Brooklyn-based Russian supermarket chain, occupying about 42,000 square feet of this small strip mall. Built as a Grand Union and later a Norkus Foodtown that became a Stop & Shop , NetCost opened about a year after Stop & Shop's closure in 2015. Note that that means Stop & Shop was open in this location for just about four years -- a rather short life for a Stop & Shop. As we'll see, NetCost doesn't seem to have left much from Stop & Shop at first glance but there's actually a lot left when you look carefully. We enter to a gorgeous grand aisle (we're really on a streak of beautiful supermarkets lately, make sure to check out ...