The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: May 28, 2026 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: none; Finast (closed ca. 1980) > CTown (1981-early 1990s) > Pioneer (late 1990s) > Food Bazaar (ca. late 1990s-2023) previously on property Cooperative:  none Location:  34-20 Junction Blvd, Corona, NY Photographed: May 29, 2026 and May 30, 2026 Welcome back to Jackson Heights (or Corona -- we're right on the border here). It's been a long time, but way back in January 2020, I posted the Food Bazaar that was here, a roughly 25,000 square foot store with a large parking lot. The store was pretty nice, but old -- in fact, it was built back around 1960 as a Finast. By 1981, it had become a CTown. Now, in 1988, Francis An had opened a CTown in a former Waldbaum's about a mile south. At some point, he also took over this CTown, and in the late 1990s, both stores became Pioneers, I believe along with one in New Jersey . By around 2000, they left CTown and were rebranded Food Bazaar, be...

Our look at Food Bazaar is going to be pretty short today, although as a side update, their proposed store in Coram, New York  has been canceled, apparently because Stop & Shop liquidated all the fixtures in the supermarket prior to Food Bazaar's intended move-in date. We're first returning to the Carlstadt store after my first visit on day one to check out what they've done. I visited the store on October 20, two weeks after they opened. While the majority of the store looks the same -- no substantial renovation has really started yet -- the natural foods aisle is now fully stocked. In Piscataway , they didn't seem to be keeping the separated natural foods department that Stop & Shop had; in Carlstadt, it seems like they are, at least for now. The various international aisles are now fully stocked, too, including this one with Polish, kosher, and Asian food. And while the Latin American aisle was fully stocked, it's clear they're not done just yet -- m...