The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: First National Stores Address: 267 Lincoln St, Brittan Square, Worcester, MA Opened:  bet. 1943 and 1949 Closed:  bet. 1952 and 1957 Later Tenants:  Phillip Jacobs > General Food Stores > Pennywise Market > North End Market Photographed:  November 2, 2019 and September 9, 2022 There sure are a lot of squares in Worcester. In fact, the Worcester Public Library has an entire page dedicated to listing them. (Side note: the WPL is a wonderful library and I loved it the time I was in Worcester.) So we're here now at Brittan Square, about two miles northeast of downtown, where a longtime grocery store has recently closed. 267 Lincoln Street was first built in 1925, but I'm not sure what was here prior to 1949, when the first listing I can find for this address shows First National Stores (later Finast). In 1927, First National was at 265b Lincoln, which might be the same building, but I'm not sure; 265b was Cloverdale in 1931. The 4200 square

Stop & Shop Opened: 1990s Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  855 Bridgeport Ave, Milford, CT Photographed:  August 18, 2024 Closing Date: October 31, 2024 Milford is one of three closing Stop & Shop stores we're seeing in Connecticut today, and all are set to close on the 31st of October (see Stamford and Ansonia ). The Bridgeport Ave. Stop & Shop in Milford, CT opened in the 1990s -- specifically between 1994 and 2001 -- and takes up about 65,000 square feet. It was renovated around 2012. Big Y has become a very strong competitor, and it's a tightly-run, family-owned chain of around 85 stores (and counting). They've long been strong in western Massachusetts, but their expansion into Connecticut, which keeps pushing farther and farther south, seems to have seriously threatened Stop & Shop. This store is just down the street from a new-build Big Y that opened in late 2019, and it's a nice one (though most are).

Stop & Shop Opened: ca. 2007 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  1937 W Main St, West Side, Stamford, CT Photographed:  August 18, 2024 Closing Date: October 31, 2024 Stamford, CT is a city of ShopRite. Grade A Markets, which recently rebranded as Cingari Family Markets , owns two ShopRites in the city along with two branded Grade A Markets . The rebrand has come with major renovations . And one of those renovated stores is directly across the street from this Stop & Shop. I assume that was the final nail in the coffin of this store. The Main Street Stop & Shop is around 70,000 square feet, having been constructed around 2007. It doesn't appear to have been renovated in that time, as it still has the decor package from before the fruit-slice logo. It's been kept up pretty well, but there are definitely signs of decline, such as the lights burnt out we can see in the grand aisle here. The grand aisle has bakery, deli, and pr