TOUR: Pioneer Supermarkets - Williamsbridge, Bronx, NY

In 2009, a brand-new Pioneer Supermarket opened on the ground floor of a newly built mixed use complex at 3035 White Plains Road. It replaced a much older -- but also much larger -- Pioneer immediately next door that appears to have been owned by Leonard Franzblau. I believe the new store is owned by Neftali Medina, though I can no longer find the record that led me to that conclusion. Medina owned the Fresh Imperium locations in Landing and Jefferson, along with other assorted stores.

The store is simultaneously nice and kind of depressing. It's pretty up-to-date, but also disorganized and, in many places, irregularly stocked (such as these empty compartments of the produce case).

Produce lines the first aisle, with deli at the back. Meat lines the back wall with frozen in the second-to-last aisle and dairy in the last aisle.

Some pretty sparse meat shelves around here.

In this closeup of the meat department sign (by the way, I do like the decor in this store), you can see that quite a bit of the stock is disorganized or just missing. If the store had any plans of closing, they've yet to do so a year and a half after my visit.

The grocery shelving looks pretty old, perhaps brought over from the old Pioneer.

The aisles are certainly clean!

Looks to be a combination of old and new freezer cases, some possibly purchased secondhand or brought in from the old store.

Dairy in the last aisle.

Here looking across the front end, you can see some of what I mean about the disorganized state of the store. Like the table with aluminum pans, cereal boxes, and an aisle marker. Customer service comes first, then the registers along the front wall, which is to the right. The store has a tough location just half a mile south of the Williamsbridge Cherry Valley Marketplace, and just two and a half blocks from a small but solid Fine Fare that we're going to see tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Pioneer Supermarkets

3035 White Plains Rd, Williamsbridge, Bronx, NY
Photographed March 2019