The Market Report

Original Tenant:  ShopRite Address:  387 Pompton Ave, Cedar Grove, NJ Opened:  late 1960s Closed:  1968 Later Tenants:  Pathmark > CVS Photographed:  July 2020 An early Supermarkets General ShopRite that became a Pathmark in 1968, this building is now a CVS which previously occupied only a part of the second floor of this two-floor building. The first floor is accessible from the left side, which as you can see in the parking lot slopes down to a lower elevation where the street is. It would be highly unusual to see a Foodtown put a Pathmark out of business, so it's likely that this store closed when A&P still occupied the space that later became Foodtown and then The Fresh Grocer. We've seen many stores along NJ-23 (here Pompton Avenue) from the far northern border of the state but we're almost at the southern end of the highway, so we have one more store on the road before we head out west. Head over to The Market Report tomorro...

The Fresh Grocer of Cedar Grove Owner:  David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  2020 Previous Tenants:  A&P > Foodtown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  597 Pompton Ave, Cedar Grove, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 We saw this store yesterday with pictures from back in the spring of 2019 when it was still a Foodtown. I got back to the store over the summer of 2020 to document the conversion to The Fresh Grocer, which we also saw in Washington and  North Haledon and which we'll see again soon in Colonia. I gave some background on the store on yesterday's post, so I won't go into too much detail. The store has seen virtually no significant changes with the conversion, other than a new sign on the front (which is disappointingly bad, by the way; I don't know why Nicholas Markets isn't using the standard logo ), and a different storebrand inside. We find a beautiful but very small produce department in the front ...

Foodtown of Cedar Grove Owner:  David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  unknown-2020 Previous Tenants:  A&P Later Tenants:  The Fresh Grocer Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  597 Pompton Ave, Cedar Grove, NJ Photographed:  April 2019 Contributor: Laura E. Our contributor Laura E. brings us another store, and this 27,000 square foot former A&P now houses Cedar Grove's only supermarket. Like Colonia,  Washington , and North Haledon , the store was converted in spring 2020 from Foodtown to Wakefern's The Fresh Grocer banner. I actually got the chance to stop by this store post-conversion, so we'll be touring The Fresh Grocer tomorrow! This store was the last to switch, waiting until late April or early May to make the change while the others switched in late February and early March. You enter to a very cramped but beautiful produce department. Produce takes up the front corner of the gran...