The Market Report

This 6000 square foot store kicks off our South Bronx group, in the quickly-gentrifying neighborhood of Highbridge. (Yes, there is an actual High Bridge connecting the Bronx and Manhattan. After being closed for more than 45 years, the bridge is now open to pedestrians and bicyclists.) This location operated until about 2013 as the Value Plus Supermarket, affiliated with Krasdale's AIM (Association of Independent Merchants) division. Today, it runs as a Bravo. It's located at 156 E 170th St; there is another Bravo at 210 E 170th St in Mount Eden. Photographed March 2019

March has been an all-Hudson County month! In the past month, we've covered fifteen stores in one way or another, not including today's tour. Today's tour, La Placita Food Market, is very different from most of the others we've seen so far. And it's also our first in Union City, the last of the three cities I visited! La Placita is a small Krasdale-affiliated chain with locations in Peekskill (sorry about the formatting, I don't know what happened there) and now Mount Vernon , among others. This location in Union City, NJ was previously Kikos 2 Supermarket (with the original Kikos within a few blocks of the Fairview Food Bazaar , and still in business). Kikos was scheduled to be replaced by Popular Supermarket, presumably the same one that owns/owned the C-Town in Passaic . I have no idea if that ever happened, but it's possible given the Supermarkets for Savings signs still around the buildings. Of course, that's a Krasdale slogan, so it could

Heading just a block east of Fiesta yesterday is this Extra Supermarket, not affiliated with the Extra Supermarkets chain. While that Extra is part of Retail Grocers and is supplied by General Trading Co. of Carlstadt, this Extra is supplied by Krasdale Foods . It's a member of AIM (the Association of Independent Merchants). Extra is on the ground floor of what appears to be a large apartment building, and has a private parking lot in back -- rare for this area. Palisade Ave, the road this store is on (pictured here), is certainly no Bergenline. It's a somewhat sleepy residential street, so it's unusual that a fairly major supermarket would be located on it. I'd love to know what this sign would have said; I doubt Extra installed it. Unfortunately we can only go back about ten years on Google Maps' street view. Anyone know what this was previously? The quiet street did allow me to get some photos of the storefront. The store is actually pretty large,

A Tale of Two Supermarkets: Allentown Part II Little Apple Market - Allentown, PA Quick recap: we're in center-city Allentown. It's 2014 and Supremo has just announced they're moving into the old Sears building on 7th St. The owners of Little Apple Market next door - so close the two stores even share a parking lot - presumably decide they can't take the competition and decide to close the store in anticipation of Supremo's opening. However, a business partner of the owner of Supremo decides to set up shop at Little Apple. This way, the two (Eddie Trujillo of Supremo and Juan Diaz of Krasdale) form a trust that controls the center-city Allentown grocery market: the C-Town on 4th , Little Apple on 7th, and Supremo on 7th . Otherwise, there's an Ahart's slightly outside of town on Allen Ave, but we all know how I feel about Ahart's. Juan Diaz re-opened Little Apple Market after virtually no renovation as far as I could tell. Despite the sign on the