Streets Market in Bayview is closing. Another grocery chain will take its place.

Beneath a yellow-and-black Streets Market Baltimore sign were cartoon piñatas and empty shelves. Lime-green slips that read “Streets All Grocery Items 30% off” were taped across the store in empty or modestly stocked aisles.

Abby Hunt, 26, who comes in once or twice a week after exercising at nearby LA Fitness, looked perplexed as she walked into the store and saw the bare aisles. She, like many others, had no idea Bayview’s Streets Market, the brand that prides itself on being “your neighborhood grocery store,” is closing.

“I’m like, ‘What is going on? Not they switching the store around,’” Hunt said.

Streets Market, a Washington, D.C.-based grocer with three locations in Baltimore, will close its storefront in Bayview and its attached Fleet Street Spirits after five years there.

The Streets Market brand, which touts a diverse range of organic, local and international products and grab-and-go meals, has been in Baltimore for over a decade. In addition to its stores downtown and in Charles Village, Streets Market plans to open a West Baltimore storefront. Yobani Benitez, the general manager of Streets Market in the Baltimore region, said the Bayview store will close on March 29 and the 14 employees left there will be transferred to other locations.

Hunt likes the convenience and prices of Streets Market in Bayview. She can efficiently find items she needs, such as chicken, salmon, spinach and fruit for herself and halal meat for her boyfriend. Hunt estimated she spends about $40 each time she shops at Streets Market.

“I just hope whatever is here is convenient, too,” Hunt said.

Under the sounds of Latin music, shoppers snaked through the aisles for what was left of Streets Market Bayview: cans of La Morena Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce, varying brands of ramen, bottles of Jarritos drinks and Diana’s brand chips, among household necessities.

According to MCB Real Estate — the firm behind Yard 56, the shopping center where Streets Market’s Bayview store is located — grocery chain Lidl US will take its place. MCB Real Estate did not provide a timeline for when Lidl US would open at Yard 56.

In a statement released Wednesday, MCB Real Estate officials said the change comes in an effort “to align with the evolving needs of the local community.”

“Grocery stores drive the highest traffic in a shopping center, and securing Lidl US as a grocer known for its quality and value is a major win for the development and local community,” MCB Real Estate principal Drew Gorman said in a statement.

Lidl was founded in Germany in 1973 and boasts its presence in 31 countries over 50 years later, according to its website. The company established its U.S. headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, in 2015, opening its first American store in 2017.

A decade later, Lidl notes it has over 190 locations along the East Coast, nearly two dozen of which are in Maryland. One is a Northeast Baltimore location that took years to bring online.

Representatives from Lidl did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Streets Market Bayview’s closure follows a couple of other grocery closings in Baltimore. Food Depot in Belair Edison closed in late January. Officials for the California-based chain Grocery Outlet announced earlier this month it’s closing 36 stores across the country this year — including eight in Maryland and its one Baltimore location — in an effort to increase profits.

Jonathan Owen, 23, of Dundalk, comes to the store every other week for meat, cheese, milk and other basics, he said. Owen was there Wednesday evening helping his mom, who lives in Highlandtown, shop. Owen didn’t know the store was closing, but with other grocers in the area, some he considers more affordable, he figured they’ll be fine.

“I was telling her, ‘No wonder it’s closing: Everything’s so expensive,’” he said.