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Special Report: SuperFresh - Brooklyn, NY (Marine Park)

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By Zachary
SuperFresh
Opened: March 12, 2025
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: Met Foodmarkets
Cooperative: Key Food Stores
Location: 3404 Quentin Rd, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: March 21, 2025
It's time to visit the latest SuperFresh store! There are around 30, and they're independently-owned supermarkets affiliated with Key Food Stores. But the brand SuperFresh was introduced back in 1983 by A&P, which used it on Philadelphia-area stores. Key Food acquired the brand when A&P went under in 2015, and today has stores in Florida, north and central Jersey, New York City and Long Island, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island under the name. The latest is also, I believe, the smallest, at just 4500 square feet.
You can tell right away from the outside that this is an old-school store. It's been here for decades, although I don't know what was here for most of that time. But from 1988 to this month, it was a Met Foods, changing ownership twice during that time. It looks like the first time the store was sold was in 2019, but those owners sold it again in November or December of 2024. It officially switched to SuperFresh on March 12.
There's nothing like a well-maintained old supermarket! I'm betting this decor inside has been here since at least the 90s if not from day one in 1988. The tiny supermarket has a deli counter immediately inside the entrance in the front-right corner, with produce lining the first aisle. Meats are on the back wall, then dairy and frozen are in the last aisle on the left. I think there are about five aisles here.
Nothing too significant changed inside the store (yet?) when it switched from Met to SuperFresh. Sale tags and labels on store-packaged items -- like meats and cut fruit -- all had the SuperFresh logo, but there were also still some Avenue A products on the shelves. Those are the storebrand of the Associated Supermarket Group, of which Met Foods is a part. ASG is in a very solid position these days after years of struggling, and has a strong network of independent supermarkets mostly in and around New York City. But many of their core brands -- Met Foods included -- are shrinking. There are currently 18 Met Foods and Met Fresh stores. 20 years ago, in 2005, there were more than that in Brooklyn alone, with 83 in total.
The interior obviously hasn't seen any significant changes since the switch to SuperFresh -- with one exception we'll see shortly. The word "Met" has been removed from the aisle markers, which now say only "Food Supermarkets." I have to assume that's temporary.
I don't know who the new owners are, or if they own other supermarkets in the area. It doesn't appear to be owned by owners or groups who own the other SuperFresh stores in Brooklyn, of which there are two, nor any of the stores on Long Island or in New Jersey. There are about a dozen other SuperFresh stores in New York City.
The only evidence of change I could see was a section of shelving removed in the front-left corner of the store. I don't know exactly why that is. I believe there are two registers plus customer service, which also functions as an express register.
Now, I had photographed the Met Foods before the switch but I hadn't posted it yet, so let's check it out!


Met Foodmarkets
Opened: 1988
Owner: unknown
Previous Tenants: unknown
Cooperative: Associated Supermarket Group
Location: 3404 Quentin Rd, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed: September 6, 2024
I visited the Met Foods right before its ownership changed, and as you'll see in these pictures there's very little that changed during the switch to SuperFresh.
It's possible the new owners have long-term plans to renovate the store, but at this point it's hard to tell for sure. And it's logical that Key Food would want this store, because various other Key Food owners already own a Food Universe on Flatbush Ave, a Key Food on Gerritsen Ave, and a Key Food on Avenue N. This is the only supermarket in Marine Park, but those others border the neighborhood.
Key Food operates around 450 supermarkets, making it one of the larger cooperatives on the east coast. ASG, the group Met Foods is affiliated with, is a bit smaller. Per their website, they have "275+" stores.
You can see how the small space is still taken advantage of, with high shelving and narrow aisles.
This hanging dairy sign makes me wonder if perhaps there was previously some other layout here that would allow you to better read the sign, perhaps a row of lower cases instead of these upright cases, but it's hard to tell because the cases all look around the same age here.
Below, you can see the extra shelving in the front-left corner that the new owners have removed, along with the very small front-end. Customer service is in the middle, with the deli on the far side.
I'll keep my eye on this tiny store to see if any additional changes come to Marine Park! In the meantime, check out the other stores this weekend...
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