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: Bradlees Address: 2200 Mount Holly Rd, Burlington, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  1995 Later Tenants:  ACME Markets (1997-2017) Photographed:  January 2021 Welcome to the northern suburbs of Camden! We begin with a look at this former ACME, which itself was in part of a Bradlees. The store opened in 1997 and closed 20 years later, hurting from a combination of the expansion of the Walmart in this strip mall into a Walmart Supercenter and the conversion of a former Kmart about half a mile north on Mount Holly Rd to a rather spectacular ShopRite. (That, by the way, is our other post of the day .) I really regret not going up to the storefront to see if any ACME remnants remain in the portion of the store to the left (the right portion of the store is now a Planet Fitness). The ACME was 45,000 square feet, while the ShopRite appears to be over 92,000 square feet. There's also now a LIDL next to the ShopRite, and it seems that ShopRite is the preferred ...