Grocery Archaeology

Original Grocery Tenant: Bravo Supermarkets (?) Address: 1245 W 7th St, South Plainfield, NJ Opened:  1983 Closed:  2022 Later Tenants:  Tropical Supermarket (coming soon) Photographed:  March 3, 2023 Welcome back to South Plainfield! You may not remember our first visit here, so feel free to refresh your memory . Back in 2020, I saw an outdated, clearly struggling store and wondered how it was able to survive in that condition, not to mention with a smaller but better-run competitor all but across the street. Turns out it wasn't, and the store closed in 2022. Shortly thereafter, the landlord announced they had signed a lease with seven-store Key Food-affiliated chain Tropical Supermarkets. I visited in early March to find the store stripped of all of its Bravo branding, but no signage on the building itself. There was a sign at the end of the parking lot... ...but the massive sign for the strip mall had a giant blank panel at the top where the Bravo logo used to ...

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.