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Original Tenant: Food Fair Address: 513 W Union Ave, Bound Brook, NJ Opened:  1960s Closed:  1970s Later Tenants:  Saker ShopRite (late 70s-1998) > subdivided Photographed:  July 2020 This former ShopRite in Bound Brook is about 21,000 square feet and was replaced in 1998 by the newer store , which we're also touring today. It opened in the 1970s as a replacement for an older store at 260 W Union Ave (and presumably a consolidation of the small store at 84 Main St in South Bound Brook ). ShopRite moved in here after the Food Fair that previously occupied the space closed. Tomorrow, we're moving to the west to see our first store in Bridgewater on The Market Report !

ShopRite of Bound Brook Owner: Richard Saker / Saker Supermarkets Opened:  1998 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  611 W Union Ave, Bound Brook, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 As sometimes happens, today's ShopRite was a bit of an accidental store tour. I was passing through Bound Brook and needed some lunch, and what better place to stop for a good and cheap lunch than a Saker ShopRite! At 89,000 square feet, it's a very large store but it's also one of the older Saker locations, more of the age of Middletown than Hazlet . It was built in 1998, replacing an older store in a former Food Fair at 513 W Union , which in turn replaced an even older store at 260 W Union . Because of the constraints of the property, which is extremely deep and narrow, the store is rotated about 90 degrees, with produce lining the front wall, bakery in the second aisle, deli/prepared foods and seafood/meat along the left side wall; dairy/frozen at the b...