The Market Report

Wells Super Food Market Opened: 2011 under current ownership; unknown previously Owner:  Nick and Nicki Hunter Previous Tenants:  A&P (opened 1960s) Cooperative:  IGA Location:  1517 Post Rd, Wells, ME Photographed:  June 11, 2022 and March 6, 2025 You can recognize that storefront anywhere! The green siding doesn't hide this building's past as a centennial A&P, built in the 1960s. It's an extremely small centennial, though, of just 6500 square feet, making it one of the smallest . The supermarket is now closer to 14,000 square feet, although I'm unsure exactly when that expansion happened or who was responsible for it. Today, the space is occupied by the Wells Super Food Market IGA. You enter in the front-left corner and walk across the front wall in front of the registers to produce on the right side of the front wall. Wine is in the first aisle, with meat and deli on the back wall. Frozen, dairy, and beer are on the left side. This is clearly a very ...

Village Food Market Opened: 1977 Owner:  John Cavaretta Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  AGNE Location:  230 Main St, Ogunquit, ME Photographed:  June 11, 2022 Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire have lots of small independent grocers, and the vacation destination town of Ogunquit on the Maine coast is served by the Village Food Market. In business since the 1970s, the 3,000 square foot store is a member of Associated Grocers of New England. Unfortunately, I only have drive-by photos here, but this video posted to Google Maps actually gives us a really good look inside the market. This building down the street, at 166 Main St, looks like it could've been a general store or some other small grocer at one point, but I don't know that for sure. At the time I took this photo, it was an antique store; the building has since been renovated and expanded into a collection of various shops. While we're on the subject of grocery history, tomorrow we're headed up t...

Golden Harvest Produce Market Opened: 1975 Owner:  John and Juliana Flintosh Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  47 State Rd, Kittery, ME Photographed:  March 6, 2025 Welcome to Maine! Our first stop in the state is right over the New Hampshire border, just across the river from Portsmouth . This 6500 square foot produce market and gourmet food store has been in business since 1975. The produce department extends across this middle part of the store, with some coolers for dairy on the right side, then the rest of the store to the left. Baked goods, cheese, and prepared foods are over there on the left. It's not a full supermarket, but the store is packed with unusual items and local produce... ...such as these freshly-harvested local mushrooms. There aren't traditional grocery aisles here exactly, but the grocery shelving is to the left of the produce. Fruit lines the back wall, and wine and grocery are opposite. There are a number of full sup...

  Welcome back from spring break! Over the past several weeks (and months), I've been updating some of the blog's oldest posts. Check out these newly refreshed posts with all-new pictures and info! Aqui Market - Jersey City, NJ (originally posted Oct 2017) CitiGrocer - Elizabeth, NJ (originally posted Aug 2019) City Supermarket - Newark, NJ (originally posted Nov 2017) CTown Supermarkets - Tarrytown, NY (originally posted Aug 2017) Elmora Farmers Market - Elizabeth, NJ (originally posted Jan 2017) Food Bazaar - North Bergen, NJ (originally posted Nov 2017) Food Bazaar - West New York, NJ (originally posted Mar 2018) La Placita Supermarket - Union City, NJ (originally posted Mar 2018) Met Foodmarkets - Newark, NJ (originally posted May 2021) Seabra Foods - Kearny, NJ (originally posted Feb 2019) ShopRite - North Bergen, NJ (originally posted Mar 2017) Super Supermarket - West New York, NJ (originally posted Mar 2018) SuperFresh - Irvington, NJ (originally posted Dec...

  The Market Report arrives in Maine! It's exciting to be in this area, as this is where we're definitively no longer in the Boston area anymore (you could make an argument that southern New Hampshire is still roughly in the Boston area -- I even know of people who commute from Nashua to Boston). Instead, we're all the way up in Maine, where The Market Report has never posted stores before. Because this isn't an area I've ever lived in, my coverage starts to get much thinner here, so we'll only be seeing a handful of stores in each of these farther-north New England groups. Still, there's a lot of fun places to see, and we're going to start right where Maine borders New Hampshire along the coast and then travel along the coast (plus some small detours inland) for the next month or so. For now, enjoy the weekend, and I'll see you on Monday in Kittery!

Key Food Marketplace Opened: March 20, 2026 Owner:  Yousef Siad / Raied Zahriyeh Previous Tenants:  A&P > Foodtown > Rite Aid Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  50-15 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, NY Photographed:  March 20, 2026 A comment on a recent post about a Rite Aid converted to a supermarket pointed out that these Rite Aid buildings are the modern-day equivalent of the centennial A&P -- so many remain, but they're largely repurposed for a variety of other uses (thanks, Chris P !). I love that analogy. Now let's take it one step further: this new supermarket in Woodside, Queens is remarkably both a former centennial A&P and  a former Rite Aid, though you wouldn't know about the A&P past just from a look. The centennial facade is still there behind this newer Rite Aid facade, though. Here's something else interesting: this was actually still a supermarket until rather recently. Although A&P opened here in the 1960s, se...