The Market Report

A Market Opened:  2019 in current location; 2007 previously Owner:  Kirk Rawson Previous Tenants:  Almacs > Eastside Marketplace Cooperative:  none Location:  181 Bellevue Ave, Newport, RI Photographed:  August 2021 Contributor:  Lucas F. Exterior Image from Google Maps Street View Welcome to Newport, Rhode Island! The famous vacation destination is on the southern coast of the state, home to a well-known series of waterfront mansions and other tourist stops . But our contributor Lucas isn't bringing us photos of the mansions -- he's gotten pictures of A Market, a natural food store in downtown a mile north of the mansion row. A disclaimer as we tour the store: I've never actually been here, so I don't know what the layout is for sure. I've made my best guess based on the pictures. The 26,000 square foot supermarket was originally a location of Rhode Island chain Almacs, whose location in southwestern Providence we saw last May, later becoming an E...

Central Meat Market Opened: 2001 Owner:  Tony Cabral Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  113 Gano St, Fox Point, Providence, RI Photographed:  October 11, 2024 On the far eastern edge of the Fox Point neighborhood, where we are seeing Fox Point Grocers , is the Central Meat Market. It's a small, old-school butcher shop with a couple shelves of groceries. I don't know for sure, but it looks like parts of Fox Point are gentrifying or recently gentrified, so it seems like Fox Point Grocers is the "new" Fox Point while this store is the "old" Fox Point. You can see more pictures on their website . The outside was redone relatively recently, and the Fox Point mural on the side is also relatively new. If you go to the older street views on Google Maps , you can see what the exterior used to look like. Tomorrow's stores are about 20 miles south, near the Rhode Island coast!

Fox Point Grocers Opened: 2023 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  Hawes Fine Foods Cooperative:  none Location:  107 Hope St, Fox Point, Providence, RI Photographed:  October 11, 2024 We're here on the east side of Providence for just two stores in the Fox Point neighborhood. This is a pleasant, upscale residential neighborhood just across the Providence River from downtown and a few blocks southeast of Brown University. Fox Point now has a Trader Joe's , but they also have this tiny specialty gourmet market called Fox Point Grocers (previously Hawes Fine Foods). Curation is the name of the game at Fox Point Grocers, as the 500-square-foot store doesn't have enough space for anything but a very carefully selected range of specialty products. The vast majority, of course, are gourmet and/or imported products you won't find at Trader Joe's or Shaw's. And let me put it this way: you're probably not coming to Fox Point Grocers with a budget. Obviously, though,...

Urban Greens Co-Op Market Opened: 2019 Owner:  cooperatively owned Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Coop Food Stores Location:  93 Cranston St, Providence, RI Photographed:  February 5, 2025 Our next Providence stop is the Urban Greens Co-Op Market, a cooperatively owned natural food store to the southwest of downtown Providence on Federal Hill. It's a new-build store, having opened in 2019 but planned for more than ten years before that. At just 8000 square feet, the store is quite small, and it feels small. Like Daily Stop , I visited this store at night, so it's hard to gauge how well it's doing. But some of the produce seemed past its prime, and the store has been cut back a bit since its opening. Produce and packaged prepared foods/deli are on the right side (there's no service deli here, and actually no service counters at all), with bulk foods facing in the first aisle. Packaged meats and other similar items are on the back wall, replacing what app...