The Market Report

America's Food Basket Opened: 2022 Owner:  Edwin Polanco Previous Tenants:  Price Rite (2003-2019) Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  21 Torrey St, Brockton, MA Photographed:  November 11, 2022 Welcome to the second America's Food Basket in Brockton! (The first opened in a converted Bravo on the south end of town about a year before this one.) This one is much larger, at nearly 50,000 square feet, and located in a former Price Rite that you can tour here . In fact, this store is the largest America's Food Basket, and was one of the larger Price Rites. When I visited shortly after the store's opening, it seemed that AFB was still figuring out how to fill the space. Since I haven't been back, I don't know if it's more full now. Still, the store was looking quite good when I visited -- and nothing like the old Price Rite. The former Price Rite entrance foyer and register setup is now an extensive deli/bakery and prepared foods department, arra...

Price Rite Marketplace Open: 2006-2019 Owner:  Wakefern Food Corp. Previous Tenants:  unknown Later Tenants:  America's Food Basket Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  21 Torrey St, Brockton, MA Photographed:  July 6, 2019 Roughly across the street from the Shaw's we toured yesterday is Points West Plaza, a strip mall anchored by a 45,000 square foot supermarket. I don't know what was originally here, but in 2006, Wakefern's discount chain Price Rite opened up shop, closing very soon after I visited in 2019. In fact, it was just a week after I visited that Price Rite announced the store's closure. (In 2022, an America's Food Basket opened in the space, which you can tour here .) And in 2020, Price Rite came back to Brockton with another location north of here. More on that in a few days. Incidentally, this was one of the largest Price Rite stores and is now the largest America's Food Basket. This store never got the Price Rite Marketplace decor ...

Shaw's Opened: 2002 or 2003 Owner:  Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  641 Belmont St, Brockton, MA Photographed:  July 6, 2019 and November 11, 2022 Just next door to yesterday's Stop & Shop is this 66,000 square foot Shaw's, built in 2002 or 2003 -- or about 10 years after Stop & Shop -- and still going strong after Stop & Shop has closed. Like the Stop & Shop, I visited this store twice -- once back in 2019, then again in 2022. Shaw's remodeled shortly after Stop & Shop closed, so we get to see the before-and-after of the store. 2019 The exterior is looking sharp with a fresh coat of paint, but the renovation didn't change much outside. To be fair, not a whole lot changed inside, other than cosmetics, but it's looking very good inside. 2022 You enter to the produce department in the front-left corner, with deli and prepared foods behind it. Meat and seafood are on the back wall, with dairy, frozen,...