The Market Report

Super Foodtown of Bloomfield Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened:  2015 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  296 Glenwood Ave, Bloomfield, NJ Photographed:  December 2021 My first round of pictures from the Foodtown in Bloomfield was taken way back in May 2016 , several cell phones ago, so the quality is not wonderful. I finally returned for the first time in many years to shop here on the day after Christmas 2021 and I had forgotten how much I like this store. (The Caldwell Jack's Foodtown is much closer to me, so I frequently end up shopping there when I want a Foodtown.) But I came back to Bloomfield and there have been a few changes, and I thought I'd use that as an excuse to re-photograph the whole store and basically do an updated store tour. One of the updates that we do see is that the sushi counter has been moved out of the deli counter to the front end beyond the registers, in between the entrance/e...

ShopRite of Brookdale Owner: Neil Greenstein Opened:  1999 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  1409 Broad St, Bloomfield, NJ Photographed:  December 2021 A beautiful new supermarket is one of my favorite things, but just as good is a beautiful new supermarket renovation. The ShopRite of Brookdale in Bloomfield, NJ reopened itself early this month with a gorgeous new renovation, and naturally I had to come check it out. I was here back in June to see the remodel in progress , but now that it's completed, it's incredibly beautiful. We enter to Juice Press in the front left corner with the Fresh to Table department, featuring prepared foods to take home and heat up (and convenience items like marinated chicken or cut produce) in the front near the entrance. Behind that is produce with deli/prepared foods and seafood in an island to the right, and cheese and bakery at the back of the grand aisle. Meats line the back wall, with pharm...