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Amazon Fresh Opening: TBA Owner:  Amazon Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > Foodtown Cooperative:  none Location:  225 Ridgedale Ave, Cedar Knolls, NJ Photographed:  January 21 and 31, 2025 Another new Amazon Fresh is on its way ! The growing-yet-struggling chain is pushing forward with certain planned locations and it seems the former Foodtown in Cedar Knolls will be up next. Amazon has remodeled the building and expanded it to around 45,000 square feet, and you can see the facade is a bit different from the previous generation of stores. There remain a number of Amazon Fresh stores fully built, but not yet opened, across the country, while others have been sold or canceled . Amazon Fresh's strategy -- if they have one -- has yet to reveal itself to the public, and meanwhile, their execution is confusing and haphazard. So we'll see, because bigger transformations have happened before. It's entirely possible that, with a recent management change , Amaz...

ShopRite of Greater Morristown Owner: Robert Sumas / Village Super Market Opened:  2013 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 178 E Hanover Ave, Cedar Knolls, Hanover, NJ Photographed:  July 2016 The 78,000 square foot flagship Village ShopRite finally comes to the blog five and a half years after I initially photographed it! And because these were early pictures on a long-ago iPhone, please excuse the picture quality; I'll have to go back to redo this tour at some point. Designed to counter the planned Wegmans nearby in Parsippany, this gigantic store replaced the much smaller and 1970s-era Morris Plains ShopRite in 2013. This was the first generation of Village Food Garden stores; Stirling and Livingston were the other two and Union opened at the same but was never branded with VFG. This store's layout is fairly standard for Village but just rotated 90 degrees. The right side wall of the store is the front-end, so we enter to phar...