Retail Watchers

Here's a fun wrinkle in the Village Super Market story in NYC. They just opened on Friday a new two-story Gourmet Garage supermarket in the West Village of Manhattan, and interestingly enough, some of the departments (coffee, for instance) are Fairway-branded. Since this Gourmet Garage is larger and...

Six stores are closing: 2 in Alabama, 2 Chicago, Tarzana, California, and Brookline, Maine. Is there any chance that these might be converted to Amazon Fresh? Or how about Amazon clothing stores? Actually, Brookline, Massachusetts! That's one of the smallest if not the smallest Whole Foods out ther...

I don't think most Americans consider Target to be a grocer. This article had an odd selection of retailers. They should have picked the largest regional chains in each city rather than national chains which may be niche and not have high market share. Exactly. Although, of course, that makes the a...

https://hudsonvalleypost.com/stop-shop-closing-two-new-york-stores/ Recently announced closures of Stop & Shop locations in LIC (Queens) and Islandia (Long Island). This comes right after closures of Little Neck (Queens), Dayton, and Paramus. The Eastchester Road location in the Bronx is also su...

It is odd the Fairway units were not able to just retain what they were doing but I guess it was a distressed asset as it went through bankruptcy and new ownership has had trouble getting them back to what they were. I am not clear if Fairway's problem was it was overloaded with debt causing the co...

Surprisingly, ACME came in first in market share in Philly, beating out Giant (by 1.8%), Walmart (by 4.9%), and ShopRite (by 11.1%). The article still tries to poison the well by bringing up the "sale of the Mid-Atlantic Division" rumor but things seem to be looking up for ACME. https://w...

Is Fairway doing worse now than it was on its own? Had a few old Google Shopping orders from Fairway back before they went under (shipping was free), 20+ plus boxes of groceries shipped out here to the west. No way those shipments were a profitable concept. Private label program had some gems. From...

And of course, we can't forget Wakefern, not so much for their own stores (ShopRite) but that they are now also supplying others using that Fresh Grocer name (including ones like Colonia NJ that were once part of Foodtown). None in NYC proper (yet) but they surely could be an option for that area i...

Who supplies these cooperatives? I know Key Food recently switched from C&S to UNFI/Supervalu. Key Food is indeed UNFI and uses a private label called Urban Meadow. So is AFB, although they just use Essential Everyday and Wild Harvest. Krasdale has what appears to be a combination of self-distr...

Starting a new thread based on a series of posts from another thread, about the NYC area grocery cooperatives. Key Food (Key Food, Food Universe, Food Dynasty, SuperFresh, The Food Emporium, and others), Krasdale (CTown, Bravo, and lots of smaller stores and bodegas), Associated Supermarket Group (A...