G Mart
Opened: September 2025
Owner: Jeff Gee
10 years ago, A&P was in the process of closing all of its stores -- and they finished closing all the supermarkets by the end of November 2015. There aren't too many stores out there that closed way back then and are only now reopening as a supermarket, but that's the case here in Hackensack. Pathmark built this Hackensack location (one of two -- the other is across town and now a 99 Ranch Market) in the 1970s, closing it in 2015. The store was around 58,000 square feet, and while Planet Fitness opened up in about half of it in 2020, the other half remained vacant until G Mart, a local chain of Chinese supermarkets, began their renovation to move in.
The building's history as a Pathmark is no secret, with the obvious Pathmark stripe outline remaining behind a strangely-located Planet Fitness logo, and visible Pharmacy and Super Center sign outlines remaining too. In fact, the exterior of this strip looks rather rundown, and you wouldn't expect to find a brand-new supermarket in this strip. Not to mention the fact that G Mart's sign is so small that it's very difficult to see from the front. A larger sign has been added to the back.
Inside, the approximately 25,000 square foot store is all-new. As far as I could tell, nothing inside is left over from its days as a Pathmark. Refrigerated cases line the front-right corner and continue down the right-side wall, with a large produce department straight ahead of the entrance. Seafood and meat counters take up the back wall, with frozen foods between produce and the grocery aisles.
The store is spacious and bright if not that exciting inside. It doesn't have the more modern look of a 99 Ranch or H Mart, but a more traditional Chinese-American supermarket interior.
This store is immediately next door to a Stop & Shop (as an aside, it appears to be a circa-2005 build store, but it's actually a much older former Grand Union that was extensively renovated around 2005). But G Mart and Stop & Shop have essentially no overlap in their product mix, so they should have no problem coexisting here.
The 99 Ranch in Hackensack, which I have not yet covered on this blog, is about three miles north. The more significant Asian supermarket presence in this area is H Mart -- based in Lyndhurst, just six miles away, the chain has seven locations within five miles of this G Mart. H Mart and G Mart aren't related in any way, and this G Mart (with locations in NJ, NY, and CT) isn't related to Super G Mart in the mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, none of them seem to be related to Super G Market, an IGA in New Castle, DE. And they also aren't related to Super G, the defunct chain eventually merged into Ahold.
The back wall has a large service seafood counter, including a large area of tanks for live fish.
The service counter takes up about half of the back wall, with the left half filled by a meat department.
There's no other service departments here, like prepared foods or bakery. The 99 Ranch in town has a food court and a bakery.
A look across the back wall, looking over towards the left side...
The grocery aisles are well-appointed with mostly Chinese and eastern Asian groceries, but there are a few aisles with nonfoods and standard American groceries also.
There's a large selection of kitchenwares in the last two aisles.
The aisles are split in half front-to-back with a dividing aisle that runs across the middle of the store.
And additional housewares are here in the last aisle.
Customer service is in the front-left corner, with the registers next to that. You can see the entrance/exit foyer in the middle of the front wall below.
It's nice to see this space remain a supermarket, albeit a very different one from Pathmark. Check out this weekend's other posts here!
Previous Tenants: Pathmark (1970s-2015)
Cooperative: none
Location: 405 NJ-17, Hackensack, NJ
Photographed: October 18, 2025
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