The Market Report

Supremo Foodmarket Owner: Eddie Trujillo Opened: late 1990s Previous Tenants:  Met Foodmarkets Cooperative:  none Location:  323 Palisade Ave, The Heights, Jersey City, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 Our final store here in The Heights in Jersey City is the Supremo Food Market! The Plainfield, NJ-based chain has 14 locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the latest Supremo that we saw is the Irvington location, though that store is about 10,000 square feet larger than this 26,000 square foot store. I'm not entirely sure on the history of this store, although I do know it was the second Supremo after Elizabeth opened in 1996. Previously it was a Met Foodmarket, according to a former Jersey City resident who lived in this neighborhood and found the Met Foodmarket too dirty for his tastes. The store appears to be based around an original 11,000 square foot arched-roof building, though I don't know whether it has been a supermarket for its whole life. The gray, ...

Stop & Shop Opened: 2001 Previous Tenants:  Safeway (1950s-1962) > Finast (1962-1995) > Edwards (1995-2001) Location:  232 Central Ave, The Heights, Jersey City, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 Our final store here on Central Avenue is this Stop & Shop! (Make sure to check out today's other post of a small grocery store in the next block north here .) As for some background on this store, it was built in the 40s or 50s as a Safeway, which became a Finast, which became an Edwards, which became a Stop & Shop. JoshAustin610 gives us that history insight, and also says that this is one of the longest-running supermarkets in the area. At just shy of 20,000 square feet, this store is one of the smallest Stop & Shops still operating. It's the first of three tiny NJ locations we'll be seeing, and all of them retain their early 2000s "Super Stop & Shop" decor. This is a crazy example where the Supremo Food Market -- four blocks east, which we...

Original Tenant: unknown Address: 360 Central Ave, The Heights, Jersey City, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  Nin's Market (closed before 2007) Photographed:  December 2020 We're here at our third stop in The Heights on Central Avenue, the first being Los Aztecas over on The Independent Edition  about three blocks north, and the second being Sweet Pineapple Fruit & Vegetable . I'm having trouble finding information on the store online, and the 2600 square foot grocery store closed at some point before 2007, the earliest available Google street view. The store is many times as deep as it is long, but unfortunately we can't see inside; the rolling door made it impossible to place the camera right up on the window. Even looking in myself, the low-light cloudy day prevented me from seeing anything more than the first few feet of the space, which was empty. Tomorrow we have another post each on The Independent Edition and here on Grocery Ar...