An Orleans Parish judge has ruled that second-generation grocer Brandon Trosclair must pay nearly $90,000 to Moran Foods, parent company of Save A Lot grocery stores, after Trosclair failed to pay rent and closed a former Save A Lot location.
The judgment, signed last month by Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Sidney H. Cates IV, ended more than a year of litigation over the Save A Lot site that had operated in a retail strip on Almonaster Avenue near the Florida neighborhood from 2008 until 2023, when Trosclair closed it.
“It it further ordered, adjudged and decreed that Moran Foods has established its proof of claim herein, and that final judgment is hereby entered in favor of Moran” against Trosclair, Cates wrote on June 16…