The Market Report

Seabra Foods Opened: July 2025 Owner:  Antonio Seabra Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  333 Pleasant St, Main Middle, Worcester, MA Photographed:  August 19, 2025 and August 25, 2025 It's time to check out a brand-new Seabra Foods location! The chain is one I'm quite familiar with, given that it originated in Newark, NJ's Ironbound neighborhood, and I've lived for most of my life within 5 or 10 miles of Newark. But Worcester has recently gotten a brand-new Seabra, joining the chain's other Massachusetts and Rhode Island locations. This store is on the small side, probably around 12,000-15,000 square feet, but is a complete supermarket. And in a city that's lost a Stop & Shop and a Price Chopper in the last year, while other promised stores fail to materialize , a new supermarket is a good thing. It's located in a new-build complex just across from Bahnan's , but it serves a very different customer. Bahnan's is still a go-t...

Seabra Foods Opened: unknown Owner:  Antonio Seabra Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  440 Stafford St, Fall River, MA Photographed: October 14, 2024 It's been quite a while since we've toured a Seabra Foods! The one here in Fall River is the last stop in town before we start heading east and north, after we've visited Portugalia and Amaral's (it goes without saying that there's a large Portuguese community here). The store is around 30,000 square feet and, while I'm not sure when it opened, was renovated around 2020. It also appears to have been expanded since it first opened, given a somewhat unusual layout. We enter and turn 90 degrees to the left to walk along the front of the store for the produce department. Seafood, meat, and deli/prepared foods line the left-side wall and grocery aisles run side to side, with dairy and frozen at the back. Bakery is in the back right corner, and in the expansion out the right side, several aisles ...