The Market Report

Price Chopper Opened: unknown Owner: Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants: unknown Cooperative: none Location: 263 Depot St, Manchester, VT Photographed: August 12, 2021 Just between the former Grand Union and current Shaw's in Manchester Center is this Price Chopper, and yes, this is a terrible photo and I'm aware of that. Here's what the exterior actually looks like, and this store does appear to truly have a pitched roof. It's a very small Price Chopper, possibly in the 20,000 square foot range, and looks fine if a little dated inside . I wasn't able to find out much on the history of this location, but I did find a news article from 2001 saying that Price Chopper was buying Manchester's Grand Union and moving their existing store into that location. The article didn't provide any addresses, so it sounds like this store attempted to move into what's now the Shaw's but didn't. It's also possible that this  was also a Grand Union, and ...

Shaw's Opened: 2001 Owner: Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants: Grand Union (ca. 1980s-2001) Cooperative: none Location: 64 Equinox Terr, Manchester, VT Photographed: August 12, 2021 Okay, we've already toured one Grand Union-turned-Shaw's in Wilmington , now let's check out another! Grand Union built this store in the 1980s or so, replacing an older location in town (more on that soon). It measures around 42,000 square feet, making it significantly larger than Wilmington. I visited this store in the summer of 2021, and since then, it's gotten some minor renovations and held a grand reopening. One much-needed change was redoing the signage outside to drop this small and off-center logo. The outside also got a full fresh coat of paint, and that's good because this rather rundown exterior belies the very nice interior. But before we head inside, check out these posters near the entrance still advertising Wild Harvest and Essential Everyday items, roughly ...

Similar to the posts I did in Worcester , let's take a look at the various corner grocers of Bennington! Since these are small stores and I mostly have only exterior pictures, I figured it would be best to combine them all into one post. Bennington seems to have had a rich history of corner stores, and even as grocery stores got larger and moved out to the suburban neighborhoods, these corner stores remained ( some have even expanded and are still going strong). Let's get started... Yott's Market Opened:  1984 Owner: Shefali Patel Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative: none Location: 600 Gage St, Bennington, VT Photographed: August 8, 2021 Yott's is just a couple blocks over from Henry's, but it's more of a convenience store than a substantial grocer like Henry's is. Willy's Variety Opened: 1946 Owner: Edwin Maroney Previous Tenants: A&P Cooperative: none Location: 300 Gage St, Bennington, VT Photographed: August 8, 2021 And a couple mor...

Hannaford Opened: ca. 1990s Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative: none Location:  141 Hannaford Sq, Bennington, VT Photographed: August 9, 2021 Bennington is home to three big-chain grocery stores, a Hannaford and a Price Chopper (plus an ALDI I don't have pictures of). I haven't been inside either, so this post will be quick. The Hannaford is around 54,000 square feet, built in the 1990s (and it doesn't appear to have previously been a Shop 'n Save, though I'm not certain of that). Here's a look inside. Price Chopper Opened: ca. 2000 Owner: Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 214 Northside Dr, Bennington, VT Photographed: August 9, 2021 I figured this picture of the Price Chopper was bad enough that it didn't even deserve its own post. This store is a bit larger than the Hannaford, measuring around 60,000 square feet. Here's what the outside actually looks like, and a look inside . It loo...

ShopRite Opened: September 19, 2026 Owner: Inserra Supermarkets Previous Tenants: Pathmark (1996-2015)  > ACME Markets (2015-2026) Cooperative: Wakefern Food Location: 481 River Rd, Edgewater, NJ Photographed: September 19, 2026 An important update (9/21):  Inserra has confirmed that, over the coming two years, they'll fully remodel the store. I'm looking forward to seeing what that brings! It's time to visit the newest ShopRite! This store is located in Edgewater Commons, and was built as a Pathmark in 1996. In 2015, it was sold to ACME, and you can see my tour of the ACME here . The 70,000 square foot ACME closed at the end of their lease this summer, having reopened after a couple weeks as an Inserra-owned ShopRite yesterday. I visited in the afternoon, and let me tell you that it was absolutely insane. The store was packed with people, but the parking lot was easily the worst parking lot situation I've ever had the misfortune of driving through. This ShopRit...