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  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...
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Coming Up Next!

  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 - Woodside, NY

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...

Associated Supermarkets - Brooklyn, NY (Gravesend)

Associated Supermarkets Opened: March 2026 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Rite Aid Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  344 Ave X, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  March 20, 2026 I'm fairly certain this new Associated, which was previously a Rite Aid, was built as a supermarket. But I can't find what supermarket was here prior to Rite Aid through any of my usual channels. Any insight? Now, the 10,000 square foot space is a (very yellow, outside at least) Associated. This store is in the middle of a mostly-residential neighborhood within Gravesend with not that many grocery store options, especially given that the longtime Key Food a couple blocks away on Avenue Z has recently closed. (It was acquired by another operator, and they're currently doing renovations. According to a Facebook rumor, it'll be a NetCost Market, a local chain of Russian and Eastern European stores.) Associated is about 5,000 square feet smaller than the Key Food, and ther...