The Market Report

 Our third day of memorabilia features selections from Finast, Food Fair, and Foodtown! Finast The New England-based First National Stores chain later was folded into what today is Ahold-Delhaize. In fact, the Finast name remained on products well into the 1990s and possibly the early 00s. Much earlier, though, they had their own brands, such as this Copley Coffee, perhaps named after Copley Square in Boston (as the chain originated in Somerville). Read more on their history here . It's possible, too, that the Copley Coffee dates back to the time before Finast was Finast and when they were just First National Stores. Another spice tin, this time seen in front of another recognizable storebrand! And a pre-Finast "First National Stores" matchbook, probably from the 1950s or so... This somewhat redundant slogan reminds me of the jingle "count on Pathmark for savings that count, for savings that count, count on Pathmark." Food Fair Now on to Food Fair, which was enc

There's plenty of ACME memorabilia out there, but there's actually not all that much that I've encountered from Shaw's. Let's check out some products from those two stores! ACME While I don't know exactly when these spice cans are from, the ASCO brand (American Stores Company) was phased out beginning in 1937 in favor of ACME. I'm not positive whether the ASCO brand remained on products beyond the store name changing, but by the 1950s, the Ideal brand had been introduced. The script logo of Ideal was similar to the script logo of ACME at the time, and later, a fish-eye logo was introduced to match the contemporary ACME logo. In the above picture, we see two different eras of Ideal products. The script ones are older and the fish-eye ones, which actually have the ACME brand on them (the script ones don't and only say American Stores), are newer. I would estimate this coffee can dates to the 1950s... A random other memorabilia item spotted in Harrisburg, a

I feel like I've been scrambling to visit all the supermarkets that have had things going on in New Jersey and New York City in the last few weeks! Here's my post from a few days ago, and now it's time for some more things. And of course, here's today's regularly scheduled post. ShopRite South Plainfield, NJ ICYMI, we visited the brand-new ShopRite of Hadley Commons in the former Middlesex Mall in South Plainfield, NJ after its grand opening on Wednesday! Food Universe Marketplace Passaic, NJ One of Key Food's latest store openings was yesterday in the city of Passaic, New Jersey. The store is just 16,000 square feet, but quite a bit of the store stands out -- not least the ridiculously bright orange walls. See more on the store here ! SuperFresh Highland Park, NJ Two SuperFresh stores in progress: the Highland Park location is expected to open later this summer. A couple counties to the north, a store is undergoing a renovation inside and out... Passaic, NJ

Nature's Food Markets Opened: May 3, 2024 Owner:  Heddy Tabet Previous Tenants:  A&P (mid-1990s-2015) > Shop Fresh Marketplace (Mar 2023-Sep 2023) Cooperative:  INFRA Location:  7 Naughright Rd, Hackettstown, NJ Photographed:  May 10, 2024 One more special report today! (If you're reading these in the reverse order I posted them, welcome to Saturday's post, there will be more coming your way. Here's the full list. ) But anyway, this is the last store I visited yesterday. Like the Food Universe in Passaic , this store held its opening on May 3, but it's not fully open just yet. The 40,000 square foot store is located in part of a former A&P , which opened in March 2023  as Shop Fresh Marketplace and closed in September 2023. ( Here's my post from June 2023.) Shop Fresh was affiliated with Great Valu Markets , but they lost their affiliation shortly after their opening. In early 2024, it was announced that the owners of New York-based A Matter of Heal