The Market Report

City Supermarket Opened: summer 2024 Owner:  Mitchel Lopez Previous Tenants:  Associated Supermarkets > ExpresSupermarket > Kenilworth Fresh Market Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  488 Kenilworth Blvd, Kenilworth, NJ Photographed:  January 15, 2025 It's time once again to visit the tiny City Supermarket in Kenilworth for a look as they wrap up the renovation. The store is just 5300 square feet, but it's becoming a more and more full supermarket every day as City rearranges the store. You can refresh your memory on this location by reading my last post here . In the first aisle, new dairy and frozen cases line the front wall. Additional dairy cases line the side wall, with meat in the back part of the side wall. All the fixtures and flooring are new, and City has finished installing new decor, too. The grocery aisles are well-stocked with a lot to choose from, including a lot  of storebrands (I spotted Parade from Retail Grocers Group, wh...

City Supermarket Opened: summer 2024 Owner:  Mitchel Lopez Previous Tenants:  Associated Supermarkets > ExpresSupermarket > Kenilworth Fresh Market Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  488 Kenilworth Blvd, Kenilworth, NJ Photographed:  November 7, 2024 We're back at Kenilworth's tiny supermarket to check out their renovation! Earlier this summer, I reported that the Kenilworth Fresh Market had been acquired by local chain City Supermarket , becoming their fifth store. They reset the store when they moved in, but now they're working hard on a full renovation to the tiny 5300 square foot store. We're going to tour the location from the back entrance facing the parking lot. The layout hasn't changed much, but basically all of the fixtures have been replaced. In the back, the produce department takes up the space it always has but also the former meat case facing the department, which you can see straight ahead above. The refrigerator running along ...

Kenilworth Fresh Market Opened:  between 2013 and 2015 Owner:  Mitchel Lopez Previous Tenants:  Associated Supermarkets > A&A Supermarket > ExpresSupermarket Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  488 Kenilworth Blvd, Kenilworth, NJ Photographed:  November 5, 2023 and June 15, 2024 It's time once again for a trip back to the Kenilworth Fresh Market! We last saw it back in 2021 , when it had recently reopened after closing briefly in 2019-2020. I had one interior picture but I went back and re-photographed the entire store last November, so that we can have a full tour. That's up first, but after we tour the store as it was in November, we'll see what's going on lately since it's now changed ownership yet again. The first aisle is up front, running along Kenilworth Boulevard. Drinks and a few frozen things like ice cream are on the front wall, then the rest of frozen and dairy run along the left side of the store. Grocery aisles run side to ...