The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: 2024 Owner: Spencer An Previous Tenants: Pathmark (1970-2015) > Stop & Shop (2015-2024) Cooperative: none Location:  2965 Cropsey Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: July 15, 2026 It's time to return (yes, again, but hopefully for the last time for a while) to the Cropsey Avenue Food Bazaar. Since Food Bazaar acquired this store from Stop & Shop in September 2024, they've slowly but surely redone it from floor to ceiling. You can get a sense of just how extensive the changes are by comparing how Stop & Shop looked shortly before it closed to the pictures in this post, though I've been posting all throughout the renovation process. Now, the store is officially done and has held its grand opening while also extending its hours to 24/7. Okay, so generally when Food Bazaar has done grand openings recently, they hand out a handy little diagram of the layout. I didn't see any when I visited this store, so we make do with my ef...

Save A Lot Opened: 2018 Owner: unknown Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none/Key Food Stores(?) Location: 200 Central Ave, Orange, NJ Photographed: June 22, 2026 Welcome back to Save A Lot here in Orange! This store opened back in 2018 as part of a push into North Jersey, along with stores in Newark, Linden, and Hillside. Hard to say whether that initial push waas a success, but these days, only this store and Newark remain Save A Lots. Linden closed, and Hillside became a SuperFresh . Let's go back and take a closer look at these stores. So, over the past few years, Save A Lot has switched from corporate-owned stores to a fully franchise model, and it looks like that was when Linden closed. Orange and Hillside were both sold to the same owner around 2021, who ran the stores poorly and sold them again in 2023. Newark, Orange, and Hillside at that point were all redone and reset to become full supermarkets rather than limited-assortment discount stores, so when Hillside sw...