Grocery Archaeology

Original Grocery Tenant:  Stop & Shop Address:  1200 Park St, Frog Hollow, Hartford, CT Opened:  1968 Closed:  after 1985 Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  July 9, 2023 What's today the IKASA Furniture & Mattress store and a neighboring Dollar Tree was previously a Home Mart (...where you are the star!) but originally, back in 1968, opened as a 25,000 square foot Stop & Shop with a Bradlees next door. After Stop & Shop closed -- at some point after 1985 -- Save-A-Lot opened up in the space to the right of the former supermarket, taking up around 15,000 square feet. But by 2011, the Save-A-Lot moved a few doors over and 10,000 square feet up in size, then closing in 2020. That space is now a Key Food . Tomorrow we're off to East Hartford to check out another former supermarket right here on Grocery Archaeology!

Original Tenant:  unknown Address:  1250 Park St, Parkville, Hartford, CT Opened:  unknown Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  Save-A-Lot > Supermarket Coming Soon Photographed:  August 2020 Contributor:  Lars D. Our final Hartford store is a quick look at this former Save-A-Lot just up the street from the CTown which has closed and is now being prepared for the opening of an independent supermarket. The windows are fully papered over, so we unfortunately can't get a look inside. But the Save-A-Lot decals remain in the windows... ...but what we can find is a remaining cart corral... That wraps up our look at Hartford! Come back tomorrow to The Market Report for three stores in the eastern suburbs! UPDATE 10/29/20:  This is expected to open as a Key Food on 11/4/20.