The Market Report

Lotte Plaza Market Owner: Sung Lee Opened:  2019 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > A&P > SuperFresh Cooperative:  none Location:  1185 Amboy Ave, Edison, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 We're here following up on today's earlier store tour of the SuperFresh in Edison with the store that replaced it, the Lotte Plaza Market of Edison. The Maryland-based chain of Asian supermarkets (focusing on Korean selections) was one of two Asian stores to take the opportunity of the former A&P locations that closed in New Jersey, the other being 99 Ranch Market from the west coast which took Pathmark locations in Hackensack, Jersey City , and here in Edison which we'll see shortly. The store on a random Friday morning a year after it opened was far busier than SuperFresh just weeks after opening on a Saturday. I'm glad to see that Lotte Plaza has successfully brought this space (and, more importantly, this whole mall) back to life. Inside, while the space has be...

SuperFresh Owner:  Ki Hyung (Kevin) Kim Opened:  2016-2017 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > A&P Later Tenants:  Lotte Plaza Market Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1185 Amboy Ave, Edison, NJ Photographed:  August 2016 As Acme Style says, file this one under crash and burn. In fact, Acme Style even covered this store, while visiting former ACME locations in the area. When Key Food announced plans to aggressively expand the SuperFresh banner in suburban New Jersey, they were stuck with the unfortunate fact that several New Jersey stores were owned by Kevin Kim, whose failures have been well-documented on the blog (see here , here , here , here , and most recently here , for examples). This is yet another Kim store which lasted less than two years. Total difference from the Food World/Lee stores, which we saw recently in Hopelawn . The store had very little change from A&P, and was even using A&P's ...