Roosevelt Island Gristedes Supermarket To Be Rebranded As Foodtown Supermarket, Transition To Be Completed By February 2020 - End Of An Era, Gristedes Signage Removed From Motorgate

The Roosevelt Island Gristedes supermarket will soon complete it's transition and rebranding to a Foodtown.

Last Sunday,  the Gristedes signage was removed

The last letter of ⁦the ⁦@Gristedes⁩ 🛒sign has been removed on #RooseveltIsland. It’s an end of an area, we are glad 👍🏽has ended. pic.twitter.com/TJXXh08Foa

— Judith Alemayehu (@JudithAlemayehu) December 29, 2019

and yesterday was completely gone.

I'm told that the transition to Foodtown

will be completed by February

and include a lower pricing structure for items.

According to this September 18 Real Estate Weekly article:

... As part of that effort to stay ahead of the competition, Catsimatidis revealed he is switching some of his Gristedes stores to the D’Agostino brand — and vice versa.

In addition, the company may decide to open more Foodtown supermarkets, a brand Catsimatidis doesn’t own but does license in suburban areas....

... Catsimatidis said, “It’s getting tougher and tougher to do business and the community should support their local supermarkets, because if there’s no supermarkets at all, it’ll get much worse.”

Stay tuned for more info on the Roosevelt Island Foodtown Supermarket coming soon.