The Market Report

Trader Joe's Opened: ca. 2000 Owner:  Aldi Nord Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  145 Great Rd, Acton, MA Photographed:  May 20, 2025 Welcome back to Acton! On our first pass through town, we saw almost every supermarket in town. Check out the old and new Stop & Shop , the Roche Brothers , Idylwilde Farms , Mei Ya , and Donelan's . But we missed one store: this Trader Joe's, which takes up about 13,000 square feet on the southeastern side of town. Inside, it's a pretty standard Trader Joe's. Produce is on the left side, with dairy and cheese on the back wall. Frozen foods are in the middle, with meat and nonfoods in the last aisle. The grocery aisles run diagonally across the middle of the store, with frozen foods in the middle. This was one of the relatively early Trader Joe's in the Boston area, opening around 2000. The first stores in the Boston area opened in Cambridge and Brookline in 1996. Upright and single-tier frozen foods...

Market 32 Opened: October 2025 Owner: Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants: McCracken Markets > Iandoli Super Markets > Price Chopper (ca. late 1980s-2025) Cooperative: none Location: 221-223 Park Ave, Worcester, MA Photographed: November 22, 2025 We're back here in Worcester for a look at the city's newest Market 32, which switched from Price Chopper in October. Work continues to be ongoing at the store, so let's check in and see what's happening. A disclaimer: these pictures were actually taken about two weeks ago -- I've been behind in posting -- so I'm sure more work has been done since. But the produce department is looking fresh with new fixtures, paint, and lighting. I'm a big fan of the track lighting here, which I think almost always elevates a supermarket's appearance. I'm not so crazy about the fact that the ceiling appears to have already been painted, then had the recessed lighting removed. I imagine Market 32 will paint the mis...

Remsen Village Marketplace Opened: October 2025 Owner:  Robert Almonte Previous Tenants: Fine Fare > Met Foodmarkets > Food Universe Marketplace Cooperative:  Krasdale Location:  405 Remsen Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  October 29, 2025; December 1, 2025; and February 11, 2025 (Food Universe) A small, mostly residential neighborhood between East Flatbush and Brownsville, Remsen Village isn't a neighborhood you hear much talk of. Today, we're going to check out the supermarket right in the middle of the neighborhood as it makes a (relatively minor) change. 405 Remsen Avenue appears to have been a grocery store since at least the 1980s, eventually becoming Fine Fare in the early 00s or so. Fine Fare closed around 2013, becoming a Met Foodmarket the following year. In 2015, the store became a Food Universe, a Key Food brand. And just two months ago, the store has changed its name again, this time becoming the independent Remsen Village Marketplace. I'm very g...