TOUR: Food Bazaar - WNY, NJ

Food Bazaar Supermarket

Opened: 1996

Owner: Spencer An

Previous Tenants: Finast (1960s-late 1970s) > A&P (late 1970s-1995)

Cooperative: none

Location: 5701 Broadway, West New York, NJ

Photographed: June 12, 2024

Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in March 2018, but was rewritten with new photos in January 2026. Now for the post! We're here in West New York to tour the Food Bazaar, one of the larger stores in the urban, waterfront town between the Lincoln Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge. Because this is a dense, congested area, Food Bazaar is one of the larger stores here but still only about 25,000 square feet. This store was built back in the 1960s as a Finast, becoming an A&P by the late 1970s, which closed in 1995. Food Bazaar was open by the following year, and at some point around 2005 or so did a bigger renovation. Today, this is perhaps the oldest (un-renovated) Food Bazaar, and it's really showing its age.

You enter on the right side of the store to the produce department in the front-right corner, with the meat department behind it in the back-right corner. Dairy lines the back wall and continues into the last aisle, with frozen foods on the left side. The front-left corner of the store is home to deli and seafood. No bakery here.

I do wonder what the long-term plan is here. This store is noticeably rundown, something that certainly can't be said for the vast majority of Food Bazaar locations. Similar stores in the city have been either extensively renovated or demolished and rebuilt.

When Food Bazaar started in the late 1980s, they were affiliated with CTown and supplied by Krasdale. By the late 90s, they were supplied by White Rose and affiliated with Met/Pioneer. It looks like after they left White Rose, they were supplied by General Trading (Fine Fare). Around 2010, they switched suppliers to Wakefern, although they were never a member. In 2015 or 2016, they switched again to Bozzuto's while also scaling up their own distribution capacity. And in 2020, they added UNFI for natural foods. It looks like certain natural items are also coming from KeHE these days, and they're also in the process of constructing a new warehouse of their own in north Jersey.

My best guess is that the space was extensively renovated by Food Bazaar probably between 2000 and 2005 or so, as these fixtures look to be older but not so old that they're left over from A&P.

This is a cramped store, as you can see below. We're not in New York City, but we're close enough that there isn't much space around. If Food Bazaar were to ever demolish and rebuild this store, you could double the size of the supermarket by moving parking to an underground garage. That's what they did at the Myrtle Avenue store.

Lots of international foods here, primarily Latin American foods based on the area's population.

Some fixtures have been replaced, such as these freezers, but it's clear this store is getting old.

The lighting was also replaced relatively recently.

Dairy continues down the last aisle, and in the front corner is frozen seafood. This is a really unusual place to put the seafood department, in general but especially for Food Bazaar. Typically, seafood is next to meat in their stores.

The fish had all been taken away for the night when I took these pictures.

And the deli is next to seafood, including a tiny hot food bar. No in-store bakery or even a real dedicated baked goods area, which is also unusual for Food Bazaar except in their oldest stores.

The front-end continues to the side of the deli.

I'm intrigued by this store. It seems high-volume, and according to Placer.ai has very solid foot traffic, which makes me think a bigger renovation may yet be coming. It's certainly one of the last of its kind within the Food Bazaar chain, although the supermarket nerd in me wishes there were some more clear A&P remnants inside.

This post was rewritten on January 5, 2026 with new photos.