Hannaford Opened: 2009 Owner: Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 118 Cony St, Augusta, ME Photographed: August 12, 2019 Welcome to one of the Hannafords in Augusta! Of the chain supermarkets in town, this is actually the smallest, coming in around 50,000 square feet (the Shaw's in town is closer to 70,000 square feet and the other Hannaford is even larger, at just under 75,000 square feet). It's also the newest supermarket in Augusta. This store was built from the ground up in 2009, replacing an older location a couple blocks away. More on that soon. I assume, though I'm not sure, that it hasn't been renovated since opening, and I'm not sure whether it's been remodeled since I took these pictures in 2019. As we can see, even a decade after its opening, it still looked practically like a brand-new store. I don't know how it's held up in the subsequent years, but it's a really nice supermarket. It's a standard H...
Tashkent Supermarket Opened: 2017 Owner: Odiljon Tursunov Previous Tenants: Mandee/Walgreens Cooperative: none Location: 713 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: April 5, 2024 and May 29, 2026 Welcome to the flagship Tashneck , er, Tashkent supermarket! This tiny market, opened in 2017 in a former Mandee clothing store on a very busy corner of Brighton Beach, started what's now a tiny empire of Uzbek food markets . It was just 8,000 square feet, and mostly under the elevated subway tracks. Well, if this store is still open, why am I talking about it in the past tense? The grocer has just completed a major renovation of this location, doubling the size by expanding into a neighboring Walgreens -- and that's the storefront you see above. Now, the space at around 16,000 square feet (more if there's a basement) isn't huge, but it feels comparatively palatial compared to the tiny, overcrowded corner market. And let's be clear about something: this store ...