Key Food Supermarkets Owner: Roberto Corona Opened: 2021 Previous Tenants: Save-A-Lot (closed 2020) Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 950 Main St, East Hartford, CT Photographed: July 9, 2023 East Hartford has a few supermarkets, but the larger ones are outside of the downtown area. The ShopRite and ALDI are outside of town by about three miles, as well as a Stop & Shop that closed in 2021. Also in 2021, this Key Food opened up in a 17,000 square foot space previously occupied by Save-A-Lot until 2020. The store faces away from Main Street, and here w ..read more

Original Grocery Tenant: A&P Address: 701 Main St, East Hartford, CT Opened: between 1950 and 1955 Closed: between 1964 and 1977 Later Tenants: subdivided Photographed: March 4, 2022 It's not all that exciting, but today's store is a former A&P, now subdivided, just east of downtown Hartford in, well, East Hartford. Thanks to Groceteria, we know that the 24,000 square foot space was constructed as an A&P between 1950 and 1955 -- placing it just before the Centennial range -- and it closed at some point between 1964 and 1977. East Hartford has a ShopRite in a ..read more

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 arou ..read more

Key Food Supermarkets Owner: Jeffrey Perez Opened: 2020 Previous Tenants: Bradlees > Save-A-Lot (closed 2019) Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 1250 Park St, Frog Hollow, Hartford, CT Photographed: July 9, 2023 Key Food has been growing in and around New York City, but their growth in New England started with this store here in Hartford and two in Massachusetts. This was their second Hartford-area store, with the older one in Waterbury opening a year before this. The 25,000 square foot store opened in a former Save-A-Lot in 2020, and the store is in a slice ..read more

CTown Supermarkets Owner: Ruddy Fernandez Opened: unknown Previous Tenants: Finast (1940s-1970s) Cooperative: Krasdale Foods Location: 1744 Park St, Hartford, CT Photographed: July 9, 2023 Welcome back to the Park Street CTown! We stopped by the 10,000 square foot store in 2020 with pictures from a contributor but I've actually gotten here myself to check it out. My friend, who sent the pictures to me, used to live just across the highway from here and would walk to shop at this store. Once a store opened immediately next to his apartment, he started going there ins ..read more

Moving right along to our next stops along the southern part of New England! My density is not wonderful in this region, since it's kind of too far for me to get to from my home in New Jersey and it's kind of too far for me when I lived in central Massachusetts, too. But nevertheless, we have around two weeks' worth of stuff to see from Hartford and some northern and eastern suburbs, then a look at the quaint town of Putnam in the northeastern corner of Connecticut. When we're finished with this, it'll be on to Rhode Island. Let's start in Hartford with a store tour on Monday ..read more

Foodtown of New Hartford Owner: Mike Fernandez Open: 2021-2023 Previous Tenants: Marandino's Supermarket Later Tenants: Brigido's Fresh Market Cooperative: Allegiance Retail Services Location: 141 Main St, New Hartford, CT Photographed: September 17, 2023 You've heard of Hartford, Connecticut, and probably East and West Hartford, too. But you may not have heard of New Hartford, a small town of just 6600 in Litchfield County, around 15 miles northwest of the city of Hartford. New Hartford had a longtime independent supermarket called Marandino's, in business sin ..read more

Trader Joe's Opened: 2005 Previous Tenants: unknown Location: 1489 New Britain Ave, West Hartford, CT Photographed: April 3, 2021 and other day in 2021 Contributor: Lars D. It's time for our first Trader Joe's in a while! Our contributor Lars brings us this store, which opened in 2005 and takes up around 11,000 square feet in a strip mall just across from the Westfarms mall, although I don't know the history of this building or if there was previously another supermarket in this spot or elsewhere in this strip mall. Inside, it looks much like other Trader Joe's, al ..read more

Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh Foods Owner: Stew Leonard, Jr Opened: 2007 Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 3475 Berlin Tpk, Newington, CT Photographed: November 22, 2022 Welcome to a really terrible post about the Stew Leonard's in Newington! The store, which opened in 2007 and sprawls over 100,000 square feet, looks much like the Paramus location inside although it's older and larger. You can see plenty of pictures inside and outside on Google Maps. These days, Stew Leonard's has seven locations with one more on the way in Clifton, NJ in the former ..read more

Key Food Supermarkets Owner: unknown Opened: 2021 Previous Tenants: Save-A-Lot (ca. 2010-2020) Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 60 E Main St, New Britain, CT Photographed: July 9, 2023 Welcome to New Britain! New Britain is a larger town of around 75,000 people, and accordingly, has more supermarkets than some of the smaller towns around. There's an ALDI way to the north of town, a Stop & Shop to the northeast in Newington and another just west of downtown New Britain, and even more in and immediately around downtown. An America's Food Basket has been at t ..read more