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SUPERMARKETS VIE FOR SUBURBAN SHOPPING DOLLARS FOOD FIGHT LI is amid a sea change in grocers. (Getty Images)
BY CLAUDE SOLNIK
Workers recently were busy renovating a former Fairway Market in Manetto Hill Plaza in
Plainview. The plan reportedly is to open Long Island’s first Amazon Fresh supermarket at the
site.
“We missed having a supermarket in the shopping center,” said a worker at Optical Image, in
the shopping center near the vacant store.
While Long Island has long been a land rich in supermarkets, it is now the center of a kind
of global food fight over suburban shopping dollars. In a time of supermarket shuffles, more
players are jumping into the fray.
German grocery retailer Lidl is growing and Aldi has arrived from Italy, and now Amazon, after
acquiring Whole Foods Market, reportedly prepares to open its first Long Island Amazon Fresh
in a shopping center owned by Kimco Realty Corporation.
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