Stop & Shop
Opened: ca. 2011
Previous Tenants: none
Location: 5 Town Center Dr, Sparta, NJ
Photographed: July 2020
Our first store here in Sussex County is a 70,000 square foot Stop & Shop which replaced around 2011-12 a former Grand Union at half this size just half a mile away. Acme Style has a few shots of that store in their 2010 post about the former ACME in town. This was a new build store and is honestly rather attractive. That's a good thing, because in 2019 one of the most gorgeous ShopRites I've ever been to opened just to the north.
The grand aisle features produce on the left side, with deli and bakery on the right. Meat and seafood line the back wall, with dairy/frozen on the left side of the store and pharmacy/HABA in the front left corner.
This store seems to have more of a color variation than some others, likely because the floor and ceiling are darker. I do love the skylights as well.
Produce and then on to meat/seafood in the back of the grand aisle. Notice also that the grand aisle is a little darker here, which actually works pretty well.
Do we think any of these cases were brought over from the closed store? It feels like they're much older than the rest of the store.
Nature's Promise in the first two aisles, with the rest of the grocery aisles looking fairly standard but pretty good with the high ceilings.
We move into dairy in the back corner...
Man, this section is unattractive though. This big blank yellow wall with only white fruitbowls... they look like poorly patched exposed wall where a sign was removed if you don't look carefully!
I could be wrong about the age of the cases, though. These seem much newer (certainly the freezers do at least). But white or beige fixtures always show their age more than black ones.
HABA is in a few short aisles next to the pharmacy on the front wall of the store.
And the front-end, with customer service in an island at the far end near the entrance, continues beyond HABA/pharmacy.
That's all for this Stop & Shop, but we also have a tour at the ShopRite in town just to the north along route 15 here! Tomorrow, we continue our northbound trek but detour just a bit east to Franklin along route 23. We'll have two stores here on The Market Report once again!
Really wonder how this place is doing since the ShopRite opened. I image this is used more now as a giant convenience store with most people going to the ShopRite for their weekly shopping. Hardly a shopper to be seen at the time of your visit but I also see there weren't many people at the ShopRite either so perhaps it was early in the day. Surprised they didn't do a remodel here like they did with the Wycoff store when ShopRite was getting ready to open nearby.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's what it seems like. The ShopRite also has way more perishables and a much larger selection than this one, so it seems that they might be positioning themselves in that way. And for that reason, I almost wonder if Stop & Shop regrets leaving their smaller location...that would be more appealing, I imagine, for folks who just want a few items and they might actually have gotten more business there with lower operating costs.
DeleteI wasn't aware that Wyckoff was remodeled. Just looked it up and, well, it does look better than it used to I guess...
The cases with the red trim certainly could be something GU based, but they could also be something else (thinking a pure white with red would be more logical, but perhaps they are really just old white that has changed over time).
ReplyDeleteGood points. I really don't know but either way, it's not a good look for Stop & Shop. In a store this new you shouldn't be questioning how old the cases are, even if they are secondhand they can be freshly painted and so on.
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