The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: between 1995 and 2001 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  224 Elliott St, Beverly, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 Welcome to Beverly, the suburban town of roughly 43,000 just north of Salem, where we've spent the past few days. There are two Stop & Shop stores in town, so today The Market Report tours the one just outside of downtown towards the southern end of town. It's not a terribly exciting store. It was built between 1995 and 2001 in the standard style of stores of that era, around 65,000 square feet. I don't know the full remodel history here, but we do know that it had the yellow and purple decor before being renovated in 2022. As you can see from the YAY sign above, I visited right as they were having their grand reopening. I don't know about you, but a picture of a balloon always gets me excited for a grand reopening. I am, of course, joking. This was undoubtedly the saddest grand r...

New Market Opened: 1984 Owner:  Huong Le Previous Tenants:  Kuszmar's Market (open in 1961) > Cal's Market (open in 1991) Cooperative:  none Location:  109 Bridge St, Salem, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 Today's visit is a quick one: New Market in northern Salem, on a peninsula that extends north of downtown. This store is right around 2000 square feet, and clearly has been a grocery store for a long time. Historical information is limited, but looking at Newspapers.com, the building was Kuszmar's Market in 1961 and Cal's Market in 1991. Other than that, I don't have much more information to offer. Today, the store is a pretty updated liquor and convenience store . Tomorrow, The Market Report crosses the Essex Bridge over to Beverly for two stores in the southern part of town!

Daily Table Grocery Open: 2023-2025 Owner:  nonprofit Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  135 Lafayette St, Salem, MA Photographed:  March 29, 2025 Previously, we've spent some time checking out nonprofit Daily Table Grocery locations in Boston and Cambridge, and now it's time to see the shortest-lived location. The roughly 6000 square foot Salem Daily Table opened in September of 2023 , closing with the rest of the locations in May 2025. The Salem store, like the others, was small but bright and clean with a simple selection of low-priced foods including a produce department as the centerpiece. The store was oriented with the registers at the right side, next to the parking lot, and groceries on the front wall with produce and a few aisles in the middle. Dairy, frozen, and cold cuts/prepared foods lined the left-side and back walls of the store. As you can see, the store is small and simple but bright and clean. It was a good concept and goo...

Los Amigos Supermarket Opened: 1991 Owner:  Cesir Euerrero Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  122 Lafayette St, Salem, MA Photographed:  March 29, 2025 There are a few small grocers here in downtown Salem, and one small supermarket -- Steve's Quality Market , just a couple blocks northwest of here. Los Amigos is quite a bit smaller than Steve's, at only around 1000 square feet, so it's closer to a corner store or bodega than full supermarket. It's been here since 1991, but if I had to guess, I wouldn't be surprised if a corner grocer has stood at this corner, directly across from a small park or common, for many decades longer. A larger but still small-format grocer was briefly located across the street, which you can see here in today's other post. And tomorrow, The Market Report visits a small store at the northern edge of Salem!

Steve's Quality Market Opened: 1932 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  36 Margin St, Salem, MA Photographed:  May 14, 2022 One look at that sign tells you this store has been around for a while! In fact, it dates back to the early 1930s, when Steve's Quality Market first opened at the corner of Margin and Gedney here in downtown Salem. The store was expanded and remodeled in the 1960s, which is also likely when the sign went up. Today, Steve's is 4000 square feet -- a small store, but definitely a supermarket, not a convenience store. Its decades-old neon sign has garnered it some attention (you can even buy a print of a photograph of this store from Bed Bath & Beyond! Or from here ) but glimpses inside the classic supermarket are limited online. So let's check it out here on The Market Report! The nighttime pictures you can see online are really spectacular. The effect is less cool during daytime hours, but still, th...

  It's time for another price comparison! I started this tradition last January , with another one coming out last summer . Now, the same list brings us a new cheapest supermarket. Click below to check out the full list, including comparisons to the past surveys, averages, and lots more. Click here to see the full list!

Amazon Fresh announced this week that it will close all of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores . In a blog post, Amazon said that "various locations" will reopen as Whole Foods, but no further detail has been given yet. It's no secret that the chain has been troubled basically since the start, and it's been retooled many times. Still, the stores never took off, and have been struggling for at least months (and, in all likelihood, from the beginning). Now, all Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores will close tomorrow, February 1, 2026 . Let's revisit a couple of the stores that are closing, plus some more Amazon Fresh info. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for the full list of closing stores. Lodi Opened: August 23, 2024 Previous Tenants: Kmart Location: 2 Memorial Dr, Lodi, NJ Photographed:  January 28, 2026 See the opening of the Lodi Amazon Fresh here. This 40,000 square foot store was all but doomed from the start. Located in part of a former Kmart, i...