The Market of Point Pleasant Beach Opened: July 10, 2026 Owner: Adam Shapiro Previous Tenants: ACME Markets (1940s-ca. 1960s) > Foodtown (ca. 1960s-2011) > Stop & Shop (2011-2024) Cooperative: Associated Supermarket Group Location: 505 Richmond Ave, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ Photographed: July 16, 2026 Let's get one thing straight before we tour this new store at the Jersey Shore: It's 2026, not 1972. Right? Right. Okay. Keep that in mind. So here we are in Point Pleasant Beach! It's a shore town, about halfway between Asbury Park and Seaside Heights, and home to Jenkinson's Boardwalk , which you might've heard of. It's also home to this supermarket, which faithfully served the town's business district as the only grocer for decades. It was an ACME starting around the 1940s, becoming a Foodtown about 20 or 30 years later. By the 1970s, it was a Norkus Foodtown, which sold all their stores to Stop & Shop in 2011. Stop & Shop then closed...
Foodtown Opened: July 2026 Owner: Abed and/or Elayyan families Previous Tenants: Rite Aid Cooperative: Allegiance Retail Location: 6900 9th Ave, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: July 15, 2026 A new Foodtown! Even though the Allegiance Retail cooperative doesn't seem to be in the greatest shape lately (you can read more of my musings here , if you're so inclined), they've still had a couple of notable store openings lately. That includes those two in Philadelphia but also a couple of Foodtown locations in New York. Most recently, Brooklyn Harvest Markets has opened a Foodtown in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. This 9,000 square foot supermarket was previously a Rite Aid and underwent an extensive renovation to transform it into a Foodtown affiliated with Brooklyn Harvest Markets (which also has a location in Bay Ridge, formerly The Food Emporium ). As that group has expanded, under the ownership of the Abed and Elayyan families, execution in their stores has really varied. Some are ru...