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TOUR: Associated Supermarkets - Pennsauken, NJ

Associated Supermarkets Owner: Frank Mejia Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants:  Costa's IGA Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location: 6100 Westfield Ave, Pennsauken, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 Welcome to Pennsauken! It's the suburb immediately to the east of Camden which is also its own town with its own business districts. At one time, it's where the owners of the factories in Camden lived and still has higher and lower end neighborhoods, with Mansion Boulevard intact today but with few mansions on it nowadays. In a very broad generalization, the township's makeup is roughly 50% white, 25% Black, and 25% Latino, with median household income at around $60,000 but based on my observations there's a lot of deviation in both directions from that MHI. Now, that's a lot of different populations living all together in a relatively small area, and it really looked like this store made an effort to cater, at least a little bit, to all of them. This store was ...