Special Report: Patidar Supermarket - Bridgewater, NJ

Patidar Supermarket

Opened: February 19, 2026

Owner: Rajesh & Pradip Patel

Previous Tenants: non-grocery tenants

Cooperative: none

Location: 711 NJ-28, Bridgewater, NJ

Photographed: March 27, 2026

As Indian and South Asian communities expand in New Jersey (and the New York metro area in general), Indian supermarkets are expanding with them. That's the case here in Bridgewater, where local chain Patidar has opened their newest and flagship store in a roughly 37,000 square foot former Buy Buy Baby.

The store is large, spacious, and deluxe, with modern decor and a wide range of services not often found in Indian supermarkets (but becoming increasingly common).

You enter to the grand aisle on the right side, with produce in the middle and a cafe in the front-right corner, along with prepared foods (both premade and made to order) and a sweets counter on the right side wall. Dairy is at the back, with frozen foods in the first few aisles and nonfoods on the left side. A pharmacy, still in progress when I visited, is in the front-left corner.

One note here: you'll see almost nobody in these pictures. That's more a result of me visiting early(-ish) in the morning, not necessarily a sign that the store isn't doing well.

Patidar is also working on another new store in the area, in the former ShopRite in Old Bridge (scroll down below the new store).

The in-store dining area is particularly deluxe, and a feature more common in Eastern Asian stores than South Asian stores. Still, I'm seeing them going into some new Indian supermarkets (though mostly the larger ones like this).

Rows of service counters displaying prepared foods and sweets line the rest of the right side wall. This store's offerings and design are a big step up from the older Patidar locations, even the larger ones like Hillsborough.

Frozen foods are opposite the produce department, and continue into the first grocery aisle.

The store goes farther back in the left half, so the grocery aisles are divided in half front-to-back here.

The decor is modern and upscale, and looks like it could fit right in at just about any big-chain supermarket.

Because this is a large store, there's a lot of nonfoods. You can see here some home goods and kitchenwares at the back of the supermarket.

The grocery aisles are warehouse-like, a contrast to the more upscale grand aisle.

And there are short grocery aisles that run side-to-side on the left side of the store. Rice lines that outide wall...

This store also had an expanded variety of typical American groceries. We're close to the ShopRite in Somerville, but there seems to be a need here. A Sprouts will be going into the strip mall just next door.

The pharmacy hadn't yet opened when I visited about two months ago...

And a look across the front-end.

This is a particularly interesting store because it signals an accelerating trend of Indian supermarkets becoming larger and more full-service. It's going to be even more interesting to see future locations from Patidar and other chains like Patel Brothers, which is also working on a new Central Jersey location in Piscataway. For the rest of this weekend's posts, check out this preview...

Saturday

• Unusual grocers announce themselves in Albany and Staten Island
• A large Indian supermarket opens in central Jersey
• A Brooklyn grocer completes a renovation just a few years after opening
• Returning to a Philly ACME under renovation

Sunday

• ShopRite and Food Bazaar open stunning new locations
• Plus, we check in on another ShopRite's remodel
• Key Food opens in Matawan while converting two stores in Queens