The Market Report

Seabra Foods Opened: unknown Owner:  Antonio Seabra Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  440 Stafford St, Fall River, MA Photographed: October 14, 2024 It's been quite a while since we've toured a Seabra Foods! The one here in Fall River is the last stop in town before we start heading east and north, after we've visited Portugalia and Amaral's (it goes without saying that there's a large Portuguese community here). The store is around 30,000 square feet and, while I'm not sure when it opened, was renovated around 2020. It also appears to have been expanded since it first opened, given a somewhat unusual layout. We enter and turn 90 degrees to the left to walk along the front of the store for the produce department. Seafood, meat, and deli/prepared foods line the left-side wall and grocery aisles run side to side, with dairy and frozen at the back. Bakery is in the back right corner, and in the expansion out the right side, several aisles ...

Vucciria Gourmet Italian Market of Brooklyn Opened:  March 19, 2025 Owner:  Silvestro LoVerde Previous Tenants:  A&P > Foodtown > Shop n Bag > Garden Farm > Top Tomato Cooperative:  none Location:  3105 US-9, Old Bridge, NJ Photographed:  March 23, 2025 Old Bridge, NJ is a large town in the middle of the state, just south of New Brunswick and not quite at the Jersey Shore but a bit inland from the northern part of the shore. And it (and neighboring towns) have an enormous number of supermarkets. Old Bridge itself has a new ShopRite , an ACME , a new Seabra's Market , and an ALDI , and obviously the ShopRite is the heavy hitter there. But the surrounding area has any number of other supermarkets, ranging from international stores to discount stores to full supermarkets. It's a competitive market, and newcomers sometimes struggle. In fact, the space that is now Seabra's was previously a SuperFresh for just a couple months from June to October...

Food World Supermarket Opened: February 28, 2025 Owner:  Hi Jong (Howard) Lee Previous Tenants:  Bernstein Bros > Key Food > Pioneer Supermarkets > CTown Supermarkets Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  4209 Ave D, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  March 21, 2025 4209 Avenue D in East Flatbush, Brooklyn doesn't look like a particularly remarkable location. But in the last 10 years, it's hosted no fewer than four different supermarkets. It was most recently a CTown from 2019 to 2022, and before that a Pioneer from 2015 to 2019, closing in 2017 for a few months to change ownership. Before Pioneer, it was a Key Food for many years, opening in 1987, being sold (but staying Key Food) in 1999, then closing in 2015. Well, it's come full circle again, as a Key Food operator now again occupies the space, although it's no longer under the Key Food name. One other tenant: a comment on my previous post , where you can see the store in progress, menti...