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Super Foodtown of Caldwell Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened: 1984 as Jack's Super IGA, ca. 2005 as Jack's Foodtown Previous Tenants:  multiple small supermarkets > Hy's Foodtown (1960s-1984) Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  370 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  March 2022 After an extensive interior remodel, which was most recently documented here , the exterior of the Caldwell Foodtown has completed its remodel, too. The removal of the storefront exposed quite a few of the older storefronts underneath, which have been preserved but sadly covered up with the existing new facade. And while it's a major improvement over the prior facade, I just wish the sign had individual letters instead of them all on a box. It just looks cheap this way. But overall the storefront does look excellent, and fits in nicely with the small-town downtown of Caldwell. By the way, this store became Jack's Super IGA in 1984, then Foodtown...

Super Foodtown of Caldwell Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened:  ca. 1999 Previous Tenants:  multiple small supermarkets > Hy's Foodtown (1960s-ca. 1999) Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  370 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  December 2021 We return once again to check on the progress at Jack's Super Foodtown in Caldwell, NJ! We last stopped by in November . While the signage has yet to go up, the exterior is otherwise almost done. Fake windows have been installed on the front wall (at least, I assume they're fake because the dairy department lines the front wall).  I believe there will also be awnings added over the windows. By the way, using Groceteria's awesome new list of Bloomfield-Montclair and suburbs , we can find out that there were quite a few grocery stores that were all combined into one large space. Here's the list: 366 Bloomfield Ave: ACME in 1945, Hy's Foodtown by 1965 368 Bloomfield Ave: National G...

Super Foodtown of Caldwell Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened:  ca. 1999 Previous Tenants:  Pfitzenmeyer's Market > Hy's Foodtown (1970s-ca. 1999) Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  370 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  September and November 2021 Contributor:  Laura Our contributor Laura brings us a look at the Foodtown in Caldwell, photographed roughly two months ago as the new facade was just going up. My prediction on the last update was true, by the way: the new facade is being installed directly on top of all those existing signs, so chances are they'll be buried for who knows how long again! Very glad that I got to photograph them while they were exposed. Our contributor returned just a few days ago to capture the store's progress, and it's looking really good: I hope to be back to this store soon myself to check out how the remodel is going so I'll be sure to update when I do. For now, here's the oth...

Super Foodtown of Caldwell Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened:  ca. 1999 Previous Tenants:  Pfitzenmeyer's Market > Hy's Foodtown (1970s-ca. 1999) Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  370 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  July 2021 Can you believe that was underneath Jack's Foodtown's facade in Caldwell?! After posting my previous look at the ongoing remodel , a Twitter user tipped me off to the remants of the long-ago tenants beautifully preserved underneath the facade of the Foodtown. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let's review this store's history a little. The row of storefronts originally had several tenants, which are listed here . The storefront all the way to the right was Pfitzenmeyer's Market, which we see revealed in the first picture. In 1953, Hy Shulman took over the store and combined several of the storefronts into Hy's Foodtown . Hy's Foodtown closed in 1998, at the time of th...

Super Foodtown of Caldwell Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened:  1980s(?) Previous Tenants:  Hy's Foodtown Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  370 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  June 2021 Not Hudson County, but we're returning to this wonderful little store in the Essex County town of Caldwell, NJ! I feel like a TV show announcer... on the last episode of Jack's Super Foodtown of Caldwell, we saw the early signs of a remodel with some new flooring and fixtures. I'm pleased to say that the remodel is near completion, at least inside, and the exterior will be done next. The exterior could certainly stand to be upgraded a bit, as we can see here. It doesn't quite fit in with the nice downtown of Caldwell. And luckily, we can get a side-by-side comparison of the remodel before and after, with the rendering below hanging inside the store's rear entrance... It'll definitely look great when it's all finished! And ...