The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: 2011 replacing older store Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  1025 Truman Pkwy, Hyde Park, MA Photographed:  July 28, 2019 This store might look like an average Stop & Shop, but it has a fascinating history. Stop & Shop first arrived on this property in the mid- to late-1950s with a smaller store closer to the street a little farther south, at 1065 Truman Parkway. That store would then be demolished and rebuilt in the late 1970s, in what I believe was a combination Stop & Shop supermarket with a Stop & Shop-owned Medi-Mart drugstore next door. By around 2010, after the Medi-Mart had long since become a Walgreens, that building was demolished once again. A new ground-up Stop & Shop and Walgreens were built, opening the following year or so, and actually occupying an ever so slightly different footprint from the previous building. So this store (at least in its current iteratio...

ShopRite Opened: 1954 Owner:  LoCurcio Family Markets Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  437 Franklin Ave, Nutley, NJ Photographed:  June 5, 2025 In addition to a look at the new Hillside SuperFresh, I've got two more awesome ShopRite remodels to show you. Several ShopRite operators have really been giving their all for new stores and renovations lately, and these are absolutely top-of-the-line stores. See Watchung  and  Rochelle Park , among many others, for example. Here in Nutley, we're back to check out the completed -- and extremely impressive -- remodel after seeing it almost  done back in November. When I visited in November, the decor was almost fully installed, but all the finishing touches weren't up yet. If you compare these pictures to the ones linked above, you can see there's some text and accents that hadn't yet been installed. That's true in the pharmacy, which now has some fun vines. Unfortunate...