The Market Report

ShopRite Opened:  late 1990s in current building; 1960s previously Owner:  Inserra Supermarkets Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  3147 Kennedy Blvd, North Bergen, NJ Photographed:  March 6, 2026 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in March 2017, but was rewritten with new photos in March 2026. Now for the post! Welcome to the ShopRite of Columbia Park, a roughly 68,000 square foot store built in the late 1990s on the property of an older ShopRite dating back to the 1960s. It's owned by Inserra Supermarkets, one of the larger Wakefern members that owns ShopRite , Fresh Grocer , and Price Rite stores in NJ and NY. Over the last ten years or so, Inserra has freshened up their store fleet, purging most of the worst outdated locations and replacing them with fresh new locations (or else simply extensively renovated them ). The ShopRite here in North Bergen seems to have escaped Inserra's attention, a...

Another great old film from Archive.org (click for link)! We saw Behind the Scenes at the Supermarket last weekend. Can anyone figure out what store this is? Full Video: Screenshots:

Check out this 1960s film from Archive.org ! It gives you a tour around a Mayfair supermarket (no relation to Mayfair around here as far as I know) told from the perspective of a manager showing around his son (whose name, of course, is Johnny). Full Video: Screenshots:

In case you couldn't tell, I'm a big fan of Food Bazaar. And so when I was driving through Bridgeport, CT, I had to stop at this store. At 61,000 square feet, it's one of their biggest. It was built as a Shaw's in 1997 but was a failure and closed soon after. In 2007, Bogopa (the parent company of Food Bazaar) announced they were taking over the location. The new store opened in 2010. Above: Shaw's, date unknown. From YP.com . From what I could see on my visit, this Food Bazaar is a huge success! The parking lot was jammed and the store was very busy. Almost every register was open. I don't know what Shaw's layout would have been, but in Food Bazaar, you enter on the far right (under the glass section). The bakery is to your right, and produce is straight ahead. Along the right-side wall is the deli/prepared foods section, including a few tables to sit and eat in-store, with seafood in the back right corner. The entrance is to the left in the ...