The Market Report

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 990 Shrewsbury Rd Opened:  1990s Closed:  2015 Later Tenants:  ACME Markets (2015-2019) Photographed:  January 2021 It's time for our final Northern & Central Monmouth store! The Tinton Falls ACME opened right across the street from the existing Shrewsbury ACME in 2015, with Shrewsbury closing the following year -- then Tinton Falls closing in 2019. Today, Tinton Falls remains vacant while Shrewsbury has been subdivided. You can see Acme Style's coverage here of both stores. Tinton Falls, a 90s-era A&P, was much larger than the 34,000 square foot Shrewsbury location at 61,000 square feet. But both of these are smaller than the 78,000 square foot ShopRite of Shrewsbury built just behind the former ACME. The Tinton Falls ACME remains vacant, as we can see in this January 2021 visit. This store was never remodeled by ACME, meaning that much of A&P remains on the inside. And, for that matter, on the outside. There's defini...

ACME Markets Opened: 1999 replacing 1950s-era store next door, which was demolished Previous Tenants:  none Location:  616 Newman Springs Rd, Lincroft, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 The Market Report comes to beautiful Lincroft! Beautiful, of course, being the adjective to describe the ACME and not the town, though the town is quite nice too. Acme Style has covered this store many times  but I figured I needed to get out here for myself. I'm glad I did, as it's one of the most beautiful ACMEs in the northern/central NJ area. The 41,000 square foot store was built in 1999 and underwent an extensive renovation in late 2016, holding a grand reopening in February 2017. I visited the store almost four years later (holy moly, time flies) at the very end of 2020 to find it looking just as good as (re-) opening day. We enter to a beautiful grand aisle on the right side, with produce and meat/seafood lining the outside of the aisle, and bakery-deli in an island facing. Qua...

Foodtown of Red Bank Owner:  Lou Scaduto Jr. / Circus Fresh Foods Opened:  1977 Previous Tenants:  Safeway (1950s-ca. 1965) > Finast (ca. 1965-1977) Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  362 Broad St Photographed:  December 2020 We're here to tour Red Bank's main supermarket in the downtown area, which is a Circus Fresh Foods (formerly Food Circus )-owned Foodtown! The 40,000 square foot store is built around what appears to be an arched-roof Safeway, though I don't believe it was a Marina style store. The Safeway, per JoshAustin610 , later became a Finast until Food Circus moved into the space in 1977, replacing an older store just around the corner -- which has, like Middletown, since become a liquor store owned by Circus. This is one of the larger Foodtown locations, though Circus's Ocean location was over 70,000 square feet -- far and away the largest Foodtown -- before being downsized to about 50,000 square feet, still the largest. T...