The Market Report

Sprouts Farmers Market Opened: June 7, 2024 Previous Tenants:  A&P (1990s-2015) Cooperative:  none Location:  327 NJ-35, Aberdeen, NJ Photographed:  June 22, 2024 It's been a while since we've seen a Sprouts! The Phoenix-based natural food store chain has just opened its third New Jersey location, this one near the shore in central Jersey. (The other two, in Marlton and part of a former SuperFresh in Haddonfield , are both in Philadelphia suburbs.) I was really excited to find the Marlton location by chance, but having returned to Sprouts a few more times in the years since, I'm just not sure the store is quite as good as I remember. Still, it's a nice place with a lot of good products. But I think overall, it falls into the uncomfortable middle ground of being too high-priced and not being specialized enough. A dedicated natural food store, such as many of the independent natural food stores we've toured, can price its products a little higher because the sel...

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 325 NJ-35, Cliffwood, Aberdeen, NJ Opened:  1990s on site of older store Closed:  2015 Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  December 2020 Our first Monmouth store is one of several large, relatively new stores left without a replacement tenant scattered around the New Jersey area when A&P went under in 2015. (Another example, by the way, which is about the same age as this store, is the Pathmark in Linden .) The 59,000 square foot store was later subdivided, with LA Fitness taking 37,000 and the remainder staying vacant at least until my visit in December 2020. While LA Fitness removed the A&P facade , the rest of the storefront still has it intact, just painted. LA Fitness seems to take up A&P's grand aisle and the first few aisles on the right side of the store, meaning that their entrance is approximately where A&P's was. A&P's exit remains as the door to the remaining space. Let's see what we have as we...