The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: 2001 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  Grand Union (ca. 1980-2001) Cooperative:  none Location:  55 Brick Blvd, Brick, NJ Photographed: September 8, 2021 and February 28, 2025 Welcome to the Brick, NJ Stop & Shop! This is one of the relatively few New Jersey Stop & Shops I hadn't photographed until recently, and I visited at the end of February to find (unexpectedly) the store celebrating its grand reopening. Stop & Shop doesn't seem to announce grand reopenings on social media, so I wasn't aware this store had been remodeled.  The Jersey Shore Stop & Shops seem to generally do really well. In this area, the primary competitor is Saker ShopRites, which is a strong operator with large, generally well-run stores. But there's definitely room for a second mainstream supermarket in the area, and in many northern shore towns, that's Stop & Shop. (In the southern part of the shore, ACME is the primary ShopRite ...

Livoti's Old World Market Owner: John Livoti Opened:  March 7, 2024 Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  1930 NJ-88, Brick, NJ Photographed:  March 8, 2024 Welcome to the newest Associated Supermarket Group store, and the latest location of Livoti's Old World Market, a chain of upscale Italian gourmet supermarkets! We're down the shore in Brick (about 12 miles south of Asbury Park and 50 miles north of Atlantic City) to visit the brand-new store, opened about a week and a half ago in roughly 40,000 square feet of a former Pathmark. The supermarket looks to be about 30,000 square feet of that, with the rest going to a Livoti's-owned liquor store next door. This supermarket has been long-awaited in this part of town since Brick's Pathmark closed in 2015 without a buyer. Eventually, North Jersey chain Corrado's announced they'd be taking the space , but after the chain's recent struggles and closing all but two locations, they were evicte...