Waterbury Village Market Opened: ca. 1990 Owner: Associated Grocers Northeast Previous Tenants: unknown Cooperative: Associated Grocers Northeast Location: 80 S Main St, Waterbury, VT Photographed: August 10, 2025 In this somewhat remote part of northern Vermont, most small-town supermarkets (and general stores and convenience stores and food stores in general) are supplied by Associated Grocers Northeast, formerly Associated Grocers of New England. But AGNE also owns some stores in Vermont and New Hampshire, including this one and this one that we've already toured. Here's another store owned by AGNE, the Waterbury Village Market in the small town of Waterbury. To situate yourself, we're about 10 miles northwest of Montpelier and 25 miles southeast of Burlington. Looking at this exterior, it really looks like this store is a modified A&P centennial , right? Wrong. This 22,000 square foot building was actually built between 1986 and 1996, or a couple decades af...
Foodtown Opened: October 2, 2026 Owner: Fouad Elayyan Previous Tenants: Rite Aid Cooperative: Allegiance Retail Services Location: 960 Halsey St, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: October 7, 2026 We are here in Bushwick to round out this weekend's news coverage -- or maybe, depending on the order you're reading this in, we're just getting started. Either way, let's tour this brand-new Foodtown, built in a former Rite Aid at the corner of Halsey and Broadway. After a real slump, Allegiance is back at it with several notable openings . In addition, Village Marketplace over in South Orange has joined, and when I visited most recently it was looking great (and busy) around a year after its opening. The cooperative is also apparently in discussions to add a fourth Pathmark , this time in Delaware . With all of this activity, it's clear that the group is firmly out of its slump and charging ahead. This 15,000 square foot store joins two other Bushwick Foodtowns. One is com...