Tour de Union: The Conclusion

With the Owego store gone, this is our last Grand Union store to visit, unfortunately. However, it is in the North Country, which we recently visited along with other retailers which we will soon see.

All photos in this set were taken on May 21, 2025.

This store is located at 22050 Seaway Plaza Drive in Watertown, New York.

This store, like the rest, was converted from Tops to Grand Union in 2022. But the signage surrounding the logo easily identifies this store as being a P&C Foods. This one was branded as P&C Fresh Market before Tops acquired it. P&C was originally located on the other end of the shopping center, with this side possibly being a W.T. Grant department store. But before we look at the interior, we must pay the cart tax.

Top to Bottom: Dark green 2005 Technibilt 6240, possibly ex-Big M or P&C Foods, late-model Tote 1412, 2019 Unarco M90ZX (former Tops unit). As the store mostly had only the Tote Carts as Tops, the green Technibilts may very likely have been transferred from the Owego store when it closed. The M90ZX set appears to be a Norwich transplant, oddly enough judging by the advertisement in the backrest panel. They were very low on carts in general.

As with many stores of this size, the first aisle houses the produce area as well as condiments. You can see bakery up ahead, along the back right wall.

Front end. The deli section is located just past the checkout area.

A nondescript 2009 Technibilt 6240 is being used for clearance energy bars.

The final aisle, number 13, houses cold beer, dairy, and some frozen foods.

The back middle part of the store houses the meat department.

Newer unbranded Big Lots cart from the Watertown store's final fleet made it into the store, being used for out-of-date juice items.

Ditto with this 2006 Tops Unarco M160.

I noticed that C&S Wholesale's Best Yet brand had what appeared to be a new corporate minimalist logo. This was apparently a very recent change, and won them a bronze 2025 Vertex Award "for Best Private Label Redesign". And that concludes our Tour of the Watertown Grand Union.

For a recap of all the previous tours up to this point:

• Warrensburg (toured March 2, 2022)
• Cooperstown (toured on June 14, 2022)
• Rome (toured with other retailers on June 15, 2022)
• Saranac Lake (toured with other retailers on July 2, 2022)
• Cortland (toured with other retailers on August 4, 2022)
• Rutland VT (toured with other retailers on September 4, 2022)
• Peru (toured with other retailers on October 4, 2023)
• Norwich (toured on October 5, 2023)
• Sherrill (toured on April 5, 2024)