Tendercrop Farm Opened: 1995 Owner: Matthew Kozazcki Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 108 High Rd, Newbury, MA Photographed: July 7, 2023 A quick look today at another Tendercrop Farm, whose Wenham location we recently took a look inside. The Newbury location is the original Tendercrop, opening in 1995. Like Wenham, this is part greengrocer, part farmstand, part butcher, part greenhouse/garden center, and part working farm. Unfortunately, I don't have any interior pictures of this store, but you can see inside the produce barn here . (I was only driving by, unfortunately, and it was after the store had closed for the day when I took the above picture.) We're a couple miles outside Newburyport here, which is the larger town in this area on the Merrimack River. That's where tomorrow's store will be, so come back to check it out!
LIDL Opened: February 25, 2026 Owner: Schwarz Group Previous Tenants: Bed Bath & Beyond Cooperative: none Location: 460 3rd Ave, Manhattan, NY Photographed: February 27, 2026 Another new NYC LIDL! Like the Park Slope one, which opened recently, this new store in Manhattan's Kips Bay neighborhood (on the east side, slightly below Midtown East) is in a basement. The space was previously home to Bed Bath & Beyond, and now LIDL has claimed the approximately 21,000 square foot space as their own. As is true in Park Slope, only a foyer with escalators and an elevator is at street level. The rest of the supermarket is in the basement. And because it's a basement store, the space is, well, weird. Just like every other supermarket in New York City. So here's a fire exit plan, and I've added the basic department layout to give you an idea. (Ignore the arrows -- they're for the fire exit paths, not the shopping flow.) So we start with produce at the front, t...