Buy Buy Baby

Lehigh Valley location

With the exit of Toys 'R Us and its sister chains, Babies 'R Us and Kids 'R Us, there may be space to put their rival infant chain Buy Buy Baby, sister of Bed Bath and Beyond and Christmas Tree Shops.  The closest Buy Buy Baby to me now is in Henrietta.  While I don't have small children in my own everyday life, the idea came up with the 'R Us closure and trying to find a gift for someone elses little one.  There also used to be another place called USA Baby.  Here's where Buy Buy Baby could open:

Syracuse - former Bon Ton or JCPenney, Destiny USA
deWitt - former Dicks or JCPenney in Shoppingtown, NY 5
Clay - former Macys, Bon-Ton or Sears, Great Northern Mall, NY 31 & 481
Cortland - Riverside Plaza, NY 13
Fulton - River Glen Plaza, former kmart, NY 481
Cicero - former Burlington Coat Factory, Drivers Village
North Syracuse - former Staples, Northern Lights Plaza, US 11
Auburn - former Rex or JCPenney, Fingerlakes Mall, US 20 & NY 5 or P&C, Genesee St
New Hartford - former Herb Philipsons
Ithaca - former Sears, The Shops at Ithaca Mall, NY 34 or South Meadow Plaza, NY 13/34/96
Liverpool - former Price Chopper or kmart, Seneca Mall, CR 57 or former Bed, Bath & Beyond, NY 31

Fairmount - former Bed, Bath & Beyond

Oswego - former Gordmans/Peebles, NY 104

UPDATE: Both chains are closing, so these are going to have to be other things (only one is confirmed as far as I know).

ALDI Albany aspirations

Newer store in Portage, MI.

ALDI may seem like another easy one, but in the NY Capital Region, they are fewer than CVS in CNY, where ALDI are as constant as most other chains.  Only three exist in the immediate Albany area in Schenectady (in a former Grand Union, which closed in 2022, when ALDI moved across town), Colonie and Renssalaer.  Somehow, there could be more opened (WNY too, but that'll have to wait for another day as I just don't know it quite the same way):  A lack of a warehouse in the region could be the reason for fewer stores compared to CNY, where one is in Tully, which supplies dozens of locations from the Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley, North Country to Twin Tiers.

Albany - South End, NY 32

Latham - Latham Circle Mall, US 9, NY 2 & 7
Glenmont - TBD, US 9W
Rotterdam - NY 7 & 159, Five Corners (confirmed)
East Greenbush - former Grand Union and/or former location, US 9 & 20

Troy (Lansingburgh) - former Price Chopper, US 4

Hyde Park - former Grand Union, US 9 (although 75 miles down the Hudson River)