The Market Report

Amazon Fresh Opened: November 7, 2024 Owner:  Amazon Previous Tenants:  Pathmark (1970s-2010) > Fairway Market (2011-2020) Cooperative:  none Location:  1510 US-46, Woodland Park, NJ Photographed:  November 8, 2024 After a long time of keeping locations dormant -- mostly built-out but not yet opened -- Amazon Fresh has resumed opening stores. They've refined the format, they say, and have redesigned the stores to be more appealing. I have pretty consistently disliked Amazon Fresh in the past -- but I gotta say, this is by far the best store of theirs I've visited. And if they're moving in this direction, I won't be disappointed. The roughly 60,000 square foot store (one of the larger Amazon Fresh locations) opened on Thursday morning and I visited on Friday morning. It's a space originally occupied by Pathmark, later Fairway until their 2020 bankruptcy. Amazon Fresh announced they were moving in at the same time here as they did in Paramus , also a former Fai

Stop & Shop Opened: ca. 2005 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none; Pathmark previously on property Cooperative:  none Location:  294 Middle Country Rd, Coram, NY Photographed:  July 18, 2024 Contributor:  Alex K. Closing Date: October 31, 2024 It's time for another Long Island supermarket brought to us by Alex, who lives near this Stop & Shop that's set to close along with the other 32 stores . (Alex also recently brought us coverage of the Wegmans in Lake Grove and the Food Bazaar in Hempstead .) This supermarket was built around 2005 on the site of a former Pathmark that was demolished, and which dated to around 1970. It's around 65,000 square feet and hasn't been renovated since it opened. Since I haven't actually been to this store, I'm not 100% certain about all the details. But it looks like the grand aisle is on the left side of the store, with the produce department on the right side, and bakery and deli taking up the left-side wall o