The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: 2001 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Daitch Shopwell (open by 1970s - ca. 1990s) > Big R (ca. 1990-2001) Cooperative: none Location: 1630 Bruckner Blvd, Bronx, NY Photographed:  July 28, 2018 and October 30, 2026 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted on September 23, 2019, but was rewritten with new photos in November 2026. Now for the post! Today's store tour is located here in Soundview , in the southeastern Bronx. It's a peninsula formed by the Bronx River to the west and the Westchester Creek to the east, making it a little isolated from the rest of the borough. The Bruckner Expressway slices right through the middle of the neighborhood, with many businesses along Bruckner Boulevard, which is basically the highway's service road. Now, there are lots of supermarkets in this neighborhood, including three Food Bazaars. Two of those three were stores the chain acquired from Western Beef in October 2026, and ...

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: October 18, 2026 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: Western Beef (1990s-2026) Cooperative: none Location: 44 Empire Blvd, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: October 30, 2026 The only Western Beef location that Food Bazaar bought in Brooklyn is this one in Prospect Lefferts Gardens (the others being too small, apparently). At around 34,000 square feet, this one isn't enormous, but it's large enough that it can reasonably be converted to a Food Bazaar -- which tends to prefer larger locations. The others in Brooklyn are between 10,000 and 20,000 square feet. One thing of note about this store is that it's extremely narrow but very deep, meaning that the departments are kind of stacked front-to-back instead of side to side. So the produce department takes up most of the front part of the store, with deli and bakery in the front-right corner. The grocery aisles are behind that, with beer on the left side and dairy/frozen on the right side. Then at ...